JF Ptak Science Books Post 2131 
These remarkable woodcut images come from Charles Estienne’s (1501-1564) De Dissectione Partium corporis Humani linri tres,
a 375-page opus illustrated with 62 fantastic full-page woodcuts and
published in 1546 This work is surpassed I think only by the
masterpiece Fabrica by Vesalius (1543)–the great standard of anatomical illustration.
The images are remarkable not only for their superior and significant anatomy, but–for me–also for the placement of dissections with the body from which they were taken.
The particulars:
Artist: La Rivière, Étienne de, d. 1569. Engraver: Jollat, Jean “Mercure,” fl. 1530-1545.
Title: De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres.
Publication: Parisiis: Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1545.
The entire series of illustrations from the National Library of Medicine, here.
