An écorché showing the second layer of muscles: front and back views. Coloured line engraving by J. Pass, 1796.

An écorché showing the blood vessels, heart and kidneys: front and back views. Coloured line engraving by J. Pass, 1796.

An écorché showing the third layer of muscles, with ligaments, cartilages and bones: front and back views with additional figures detailing an eye, and two feet. Coloured line engraving by J. Pass, 1796.

An écorché showing the first layer of muscles: front and back views. Coloured line engraving by J. Pass, 1796.

Four écorché figures, front and back views. Line engraving by Heath, after Walker, 1806.

An écorché of a male torso and head, seen from the front. Pen and ink drawing.

Diaphragm, pharynx and foot dissections: seventeen figures. Line engraving by P. Rothwell, 1789, after J. Wandelaer after B.S. Albinus.

1 print : coloured line engraving ; platemark 24 x 19.4 cm

466 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 pages : illustrations, diagrams ; 23 cm.

Leçons d'anatomie générale sur le système musculaire / par L. Ranvier ; recueillies par J. Renaut.

1 print : line engraving ; image 27 x 20.5 cm

Leçons d'anatomie générale sur le système musculaire / par L. Ranvier ; recueillies par M. J. Renaut.

16 unnumbered pages, 210 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 8vo (19 cm)

Descriptio comparata musculorum corporis humani et quadrupedis; : eorum inuentores; ortus; progressus; insertiones; actiones; ac differentias exhibens. Cui adcesserunt: historia musculorum, feminae singularium; tabula, explicans musculorum nomina; plurimique necessarii indices. / Auctore, Jacobo Douglass, ... Versio latina.

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Muscles - Anatomy

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An écorché showing the third layer of muscles, with ligaments, cartilages and bones: front and back views with additional figures detailing an eye, and two feet. Coloured line engraving by J. Pass, 1796.

Leçons d'anatomie générale sur le système musculaire / par L. Ranvier ; recueillies par J. Renaut.

Four écorché figures, front and back views. Line engraving by Heath, after Walker, 1806.

Leçons d'anatomie générale sur le système musculaire / par L. Ranvier ; recueillies par M. J. Renaut.

Muscles - Anatomy

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Images about Muscles - Anatomy

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An écorché showing the third layer of muscles, with ligaments, cartilages and bones: front and back views with additional figures detailing an eye, and two feet. Coloured line engraving by J. Pass, 1796.

Leçons d'anatomie générale sur le système musculaire / par L. Ranvier ; recueillies par J. Renaut.

Four écorché figures, front and back views. Line engraving by Heath, after Walker, 1806.

Leçons d'anatomie générale sur le système musculaire / par L. Ranvier ; recueillies par M. J. Renaut.

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