(6 Vols.) Lectures in Comparative Anatomy in Which Are Explained the Preparations in the Hunterian Collection de Sir Everard Home, Bart. F.R.S - 1814-1828: Illustrated by Engravings

6 vols (4 v. + 2 v. Supplement.) 11.25" x 8.75". Engraved portrait frontis to first volume, and 370 (of 371) plates, approx. a dozen of which are double page, and one of which is a large foldout page (see photos). (The lone missing engraving is No. CLXIV in vol. 4. It is not a major engraving, but a photocopy of the engraving is provided.) Bound in modern black cloth. Some spotting to cloth, contents generally clean though with some scattered foxing mostly to endpapers and plates, one marginal closed tear. Very Good. All volumes are the first editions of this collection of studies based upon the Hunterian Collection of anatomical specimens at the University of Glasgow.
Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet, FRS (1756– 1832, in London) was a British surgeon. Having qualified at Surgeons' Hall in 1778, Home was appointed assistant surgeon at the naval hospital, Plymouth. In 1787 he was appointed assistant surgeon, later surgeon, at St George's Hospital. He became Sergeant Surgeon to the King in 1808 and Surgeon at Chelsea Hospital in 1821. He was made a baronet (of Well Manor in the County of Southampton) in 1813.He was the first to describe the fossil creature (later 'Ichthyosaur') discovered near Lyme Regis by Joseph Anning and Mary Anning in 1812. Following John Hunter, he initially suggested it had affinities with fish. Home also did some of the earliest studies on the anatomy of platypus and noted that it was not viviparous, theorizing that it was instead ovoviviparous. Home published prolifically on human and animal anatomy.
A species of turtle, Kinixys homeana Bell, 1827, is named in his honorHe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, gave their Croonian Lecture many times between 1793 and 1829 and received their Copley Medal in 1807. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1832.

The volumes include:
Vol. I - Published by W. Bulmer and Co. , 1814, 484 p.
Vol. II - Published by W. Bulmer and Co. , 1814, vii p. + 132 plates
Vol. III - Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823,xvii p. + 586 p.
Vol. IV - Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823, viii p. +171 plates
Vol. V - Supplement Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1828, viii p. + 437 p.
Vol. 6 - Supplement Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1828, vi p. + 68 plates, index of plates p.151-178

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