Lot 1072
1072
HUNTER, J. Historia naturalis dentium humanorum: in qua eorum structura, usus, formatio, incrementum, ac morbi explicantur atque aeneis figuris illustrantur. Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch, in welke hun zamenstel, gebruik, vorming, groey, en ziekten uitgeleyd en met afbeeldingen opgeheldert worden. Uit het Engelsch vert. d. P. Boddaert. Dordr., A. Blussé, 1773. (xxii), 211 (misnumb. 213), (1) pp. W. 16 engr. plates. 4°. 19th-c. brds. w. ti-label on spine. (Brds. slightly rubbed/worn, first leaf a bit foxing, else a fine copy).
First edition of the bilingual translation, in Latin and Dutch, of the famous study on the mouth, jaws and (sets of) teeth. John Hunter (1728-1793), was an anatomist and surgeon, practicing in London. He was one of the greatest surgeons of his time. With this study he was the first to apply medical science to the structure of teeth, introducing the classes cuspid, bicuspid, molar and incisor. - BMN I, 332; Waller, 10648; Wellcome III, 317; Hirsch III, 342; DNB X, 287-93; Garrison (1929), p. 137; Crowley, 200; Guerini, p. 318.€ 700
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