WALTER Johann Gottlieb Anatomisches Museum.

Blake, 480; Wellcome, V, 380.

First edition of this description of Johann Gottlieb Walter’s anatomical museum, with a commentary by his son Friedrich August Walter.

Both father and son were professors for anatomy in Berlin. The collection was acquired en block in 1803 by the King of Prussia for a considerable amount of money.

“Johann Gottlieb Walter, born on July 1, 1734, was a German physician and anatomist. He was born in Königsberg, studied medicine there, and received a medical degree at Frankfurt (Oder) in 1757. Walter continued his study in Berlin under Johann Friedrich Meckel the Elder, who appointed Walter prosector in the anatomical theatre of the Medico-surgical College in 1760. After Meckel’s death in 1774, Walter became the college’s first professor of anatomy and obstetrics. He also held the chair of anatomy at Frankfurt University” (Tatyana Pakhladzhyan, New York Academy of Medicine).

The five finely coloured plates depict a large variety of kidney- and gallstones.

Some foxing.

From the library of Dr Maurice Villaret (book plate)