Beschreibung:

JOHN BELL (1763-1820) AND SIR CHARLES BELL (1774-1842).
JOHN BELL (1763-1820) AND SIR CHARLES BELL (1774-1842). The Anatomy of the Human Body . Edinburgh: Cadell and Davies, 1797 (vols I-II) and London: Longman and Rees, 1803-1804 (vols III-IV). 4 volumes, 8°-in-4s (236 x 153mm). Half-title in vol. IV only. 33 engraved plates and 75 text-illustrations. (Variable spotting and soiling.) Contemporary marbled-paper covered boards (rebacked with calf, extremities rubbed and corners bumped). Provenance : William Keats Griffith (ink ownership inscription on title of vol. II dated 1808) -- Thomas Ruttledge (early 19th-century ink ownership inscriptions) -- Henry Kimpton (medical bookseller's tickets). FIRST EXPANDED EDITION OF THIS AUTHORITATIVE SURGICAL TEXT-BOOK which accompanies the atlas sold with this lot. Vol. I is the second edition of the single volume text published in 1793 (see previous lot), accompanied here by first editions of volumes II-IV, with the latter two being completed by John's more celebrated younger brother, Charles. Garrison & Morton 401.3; Russell, British Anatomy 64; Wellcome II, p.138 (vols III-IV). [ Sold with :] BELL, John. Engravings, Explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints. Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson 1794. 4° (268 x 208 mm). Additional engraved title, errata leaf cut down and bound in as a slip, 29 plates (of 32, lacking plates I, V and the Outline plate to pl. VI from 'Bones'), and two engraved vignettes in text all except one with contemporary hand-coloured wash. (Additional engraved title cut down and mounted, top margin of typographic title excised, variable spotting and soiling.) 19th-century green polished half calf over marbled-paper boards (sometime neatly repaired and refurbished, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : unidentified armorial stamp on front free endpaper -- Archibald Megget M.D. (ink ownership inscription to both titles dated 1831) -- erased ownership inscription on p.1 with associated ink marginalia and annotation on plates -- Stewart Beauchamp Gwatkin (armorial bookplate dated 1888) -- Robin N. Revill Clarke (pencil ownership inscription dated 25th February 1946 on engraved title). FIRST EDITION of Bell's celebrated surgical atlas. Heirs of Hippocrates 1187; Russell, British Anatomy 60; Wellcome II, p.137.