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Diagram of the human skull from Table II and Plate 51.

Title page of Cheselden's Anatomical Tables of the Human Body.

Diagram of two bodies wrapped around each other from Table XX.

Outline of one of the copper plates used to make the imprint of the diagram.

Spots on one of the blank pages, indicating its aging.

Diagram of intestinal structures from Cheselden's Anatomical Tables of the Human Body.

Imprint of the skeletal hand from Plate 56 and Table VII.

Photograph of page 12, showing the sample layout of the book where there is a diagram and corresponding labels on the next page.

Diagram of a skeleton from Plate 59 and Table X of Cheselden's Anatomical Tables of the Human Body.

View of the front cover of the Tisch Library copy of Cheselden's book, printed in 1796 in Boston. The leather binding is made of sprinkled calf.