Author: PLOOS VAN AMSTEL, Cornelis,
Title: Aanleiding tot de kennis der anatomie, in de tekenkunst, betreklyk tot het menschbeeld. Met eenige plaaten, en daar bygevoegde verklaaringen, opgehelderd. Door Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Jbs. Csz. Mededirecteur van de Teken - academie der stad Amsterdam; ...
Description: Amsterdam, By J. Yntema, 1783. 8vo. W. small woodc. vign. on title, engr. vignet on n3 recto & 27 engr. plates ('inv. et del. J.Buys, sculp. Reinr Vinkeles' and anon.). (of which 9 folding in a sanguine colour.). (Minor spotting on a few pls.). Contemp. limp paper brds. (Spine overpasted w. old cloth in non matching colour.; covers some spots and overall traces of use and soiling.). [n7, A-H8]. (X, IV, 12, 114, II (blank) pp.). (Uncut.). (Inscr. in ink on upper free endp. ''... Hofman 1874'). Kunst op schrift: 1099 [4to] & 1100 [8vo]: note to 1099: Especially the preface and the last chapter are of importance. The text is based on two lectures held at the City's Drawing academy, where Ploos van Amstel was director, in 1768 and 1770. According to the preface the 27 anatomical plates were produced after recent editions of Albinus (Tabulae sceleti), Camper and Bonn (Eustachius).: Laurentius: Ploos van Amstel, i.l.c.: Choulant Frank, p. 314 etc.: 'C. Ploos van Amstel, an artist and copper engraver, who was also well - known as an art collector and as a maker of coloured copperprints, ... The plates are from line drawings, very cleanly engraved faithful sketches from nature. They represent bones, ligaments, and muscles of the trunk and of the extremities, mostly in the style of Albinus.': Wurzbach II, pp. 333 - 335:

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