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

Wear on the pages of Anatomical Tables of the Human Body by William Cheselden (Boston, 1796).

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

Stamp on the front of the book indicating its library location and provenance.

View of the width of the book and the leather binding with gold details.

Sprinkled calf binding of Anatomical Tables of the Human Body (Boston, 1796), including a hand for scaling purposes.

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.

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.

Cheselden's surgical account of his patient, Samuel Wood.