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Author: Gamelin, Jacques, 1738–1803.
Engraver: Lavalée, fl. 1779.

Title: Nouveau receuil d'ostéologie et de myologie dessiné après nature … pour l'utilité des sciences et des arts …

Publication: A Toulouse: De l'imprimerie de J. F. Desclassan ..., 1779.

Collation: 2 v. (v. 1: [136] p. ; v. 2: [110] p.) ; 59 x 42 cm.

General notes:

Plates occasionally numbered, but irregularly.
Engraved frontispieces, title vignettes, tail-pieces, anatomical subjects and engraved portrait of dedicatee, Baron de Puymaurin following t.p. of v. 1, all variously signed by Gamelin, Lavalée, and others.
Descriptive text in letterpress set in two columns, one in French and one in Latin.

References:

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.), no. 401.1.

Call number: Call number: WZ 260 G178n 1779 OV2