HEISTER (Lorenz). Heister's Anatomy with Essays... Lot 35

HEISTER (Lorenz). Heister's Anatomy with Essays on Physics (...). New edition. Paris, Vincent, 1753, 3 vol. in-12, XXIV-551 p., 4 folding plates; IV-487 p., 3 folding plates, and XII-412-(3)-1 bl. p., 7 folding plates, full contemporary brown speckled calf, decorated spine (good copy (qq. defects). Lorenz Heister (born on September 19, 1683 in Frankfurt am Main and died on April 18, 1758 in Bornum am Elm, in the principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel) was a German anatomist, botanist and surgeon. In 1708 he obtained his doctorate at the University of Harderwijk, and in the summer of 1709 he joined the Dutch army as a field surgeon during the siege of Tournai. Shortly afterwards, he distinguished himself in the care of the wounded at the battle of Malplaquet.