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A compendious system of anatomy : in six parts ... ; illustrated with twelve large copperplates   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Fyfe, Andrew, 1754-1824
Bell, Andrew, 1726-1809
Scot, Robert, 1744?-1823, engraver
Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver
Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823, printer
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Title
A compendious system of anatomy : in six parts ... ; illustrated with twelve large copperplates
Publisher
[Philadelphia] : Extracted from the American edition of the Encyclopedia ; now publishing, by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, in Second-Street, Philadelphia
Description
Attributed to Andrew Fyfe by Austin
The article "Anatomy" from the American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in parts 1790-98 with title: Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. Based on the 3d ed., Edinburgh, 1797 (i. e. 1788-1797) which states on p. xv of preface: "For whatever instruction may be conveyed in the articles Anatomy and Surgery the public is indebted to Andrew Bell, F. S. S. A., one of the proprietors, and ... Mr. Fyfe ..."
Plates engraved by Robert Scot and James Thackara, after those by Andrew Bell in the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Signatures: 4P-5D⁴
Film 633 reel 44 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 44, no. 798)
(from t.p.) Part I. Osteology. II. Of the muscles, etc. III. Of the abdomen. Part IV. Of the thorax. V. Of the brain and nerves. VI. Of the senses
Bristol
Shipton & Mooney
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.
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Subjects: Anatomy
Language English
Publication date 1790
publication_date QS:P577,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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2554048R.nlm.nih.gov
Source
Internet Archive identifier: 2554048R.nlm.nih.gov
https://archive.org/download/2554048R.nlm.nih.gov/2554048R.pdf

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