Anatomy.- Collins (Samuel) A Systeme of Anatomy, treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants, 2 vol., first edition, titles printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece of the Theatrum Cutlerianum with portrait of Collins by Willam Faithorne printed on verso, 74 engraved plates in vol. 2 with letterpress descriptions to verso (including the scarce additional plate between pp. 934-935, initial imprimatur f., woodcut initials and headpieces, occasional light foxing and soiling to text, some light finger-soiling to plates, plate 3 torn and repaired at foot, 54 with tear to margin running into image border, lacking 5ff. of 'Preface to Tables' (vol. 2), bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, wear to corners, rubbed, [Krivatsy 2610; Norman 498; Wood, p.294; Wellcome II, p.373; Wing C5387], folio, Thomas Newcomb, 1685.
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