PRINTED 1735 L'ANATOMIE D' HEISTER AVEC DES ESSAIS DE PHYSIQUE ANATOMY TREATISE

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Up for auction is a rare 18th century French treatise written by a German surgeon on human anatomy titled :
L'Anatomie D'Heister Avec Des Essais De Physique, sur L'Usage Des Parties Du Corps Humain, & sur le Mechanism de Leurs Mouvements:
Heister Lorenz. Paris: Chez Jacques Vincent, rue & vis-a-vis l'Eglise de S.Severin, a l'Ange,: 1735. This volume is the second French edition, translated by Jean-Bapt. Senac. 'Revue, corrige & augmente considerablements'. The book is massive with 852 pages, and
fourteen detailed folding copper plates.
This volume has several
contemporary signatures (ex libris) in French as well a cognac label circa 1792, and a  small cutout of medicinal plants from a much older volume.
Condition good: Bound in contemporary calf  “ 8 x 5 “ with  spine in six panels ,and gilt gold label. Head and heal of spine show loss, bumped corners. Front cover board leather splitting away from spine but  binding still tight  and solid.Slight scuffing to leading board. Internally good pages are bright no foxing all fourteen plates present only one shows damage with a approx. 2 inch tear along the boarder. Missing end papers front marbled end paper torn. Otherwise this volume is in good condition. As always any questions feel free to ask.
"Lorenz Heister (Latin: Laurentius Heister) (19 September 1683 – 18 April 1758)
was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main. From 1702 to 1706 Heister studied at the Universities of Giessen and Wetzlar, afterwards relocating to Amsterdam, where he studied anatomy under Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731).
In the summer of 1707, he was an
assistant physician in field hospitals at Brussels and Ghent during the War of the Spanish Succession
. He then traveled to Leiden, where he studied anatomy under Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1653–1721) and Govert Bidloo (1649–1713), also attending Hermann Boerhaave’s lectures on chemistry and ocular diseases. In 1708 he earned his doctorate from the University of Harderwijk, and in the summer of 1709, rejoined the Dutch military as a field surgeon during the Siege of Tournai.
Shortly afterwards, he distinguished
himself in treatment of the wounded from the Battle of Malplaquet
. From 1702 to 1706 Heister studied at the Universities of Giessen and Wetzlar, afterwards relocating to Amsterdam, where he studied anatomy under Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731).
In the summer of 1707,
he was an assistant physician in field hospitals at Brussels and Ghent during the War of the Spanish Succession.
He then traveled to Leiden, where he studied anatomy under Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1653–1721) and Govert Bidloo (1649–1713), also attending Hermann Boerhaave’s lectures on chemistry and ocular diseases. "