Lot 150: TIEDEMANN, Friedrich (1781-1861). Tabulae arteriarum corporis humani. Abbildungen der Pulsadern des menschlichen Koerpers. - Explicationes tabularum arteriarum. Karlsruhe: Christian Friedrich Müller, 1822.

TIEDEMANN, Friedrich (1781-1861). Tabulae arteriarum corporis humani. Abbildungen der Pulsadern des menschlichen Koerpers. - Explicationes tabularum arteriarum. Karlsruhe: Christian Friedrich Müller, 1822.

2 volumes comprising: text 4o (209 x 174 mm) and atlas 2o (725 x 548 mm). Engraved dedication, 38 partially colored plates, each accompanied by a duplicate printed in outline on verso of the preceding plate (Some plates with scattered light foxing, a few short marginal tear.) Contemporary calf (some wear to spine and edges of atlas and light wear to text volume). Provenance: Hamburg, City-Library (ink stamp in text volume).

FIRST EDITION. Tiedemann was a pupil of Soemmerring, and he contributed to anatomy, physiology, and embryology. This large atlas, with plates remarkable for their beauty, accuracy, and originality of presentation, is one of the first works entirely devoted to the arterial system. In all the plates the arteries were hand-colored by the artist J. Roux. Tiedemann's work was also one of the first anatomy atlases produced in Germany using the new method of lithography. Tiedemann's life-size illustrations of the arteries were widely copied in the 19th century on account of their excellence. The Edell copy includes the separately published text volume which refers to the outline plates in the atlas. This text volume published in octavo is rarely found with the atlas. Not in Choulant-Frank. Heirs of Hippocrates 1370 (atlas) and 1371 (text); Weber History of Lithography (1966) pp. 39-40.