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structure of the brain, eye, ear, and so on. Of particular interest are plates VI and VIII,
which show the fetus in utero and a five-month fetus standing upright, the better to display
its developing organs. Twenty-six of the preliminary leaves give detailed explanations of
each part of each illustration. The engraver, Miguel le Bouteux (i.e. Jean Baptiste Michel
le Bouteux, 1682-1764) came to Portugal under D. João V and worked there from 1728
until his death. Soares judges him the superior of Debrie and Rochefort, his compatriots
who came to Portugal at the same time.
The catalogue of the Faculdade de Medicina of Lisbon calls for 26 unnumbered
leaves following the text. This is probably an error, since there are 26 leaves describing
the plates among the 40 preliminary leaves. The collation given in NUC agrees with our
copy. Innocêncio calls for one fewer preliminary leaf.
j Innocêncio I, 384 and XIII, 398: calling for only 39 preliminary leaves; “não apparecem
muitos exemplares.” Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I,
273-4. National Library of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century STC p. 301: calling for only 471
pp. Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Biblioteca da Escola Médico-Cirurgica do Porto 3633: calling for
471 pp., 26 unnumbered pp., plus 18 plates. Soares, História da gravura artística em Portugal
366. Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa pp. 204-5. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A
tradução em Portugal 695. NUC: CtY-M, NcD-MC, OkU, MBCo, ICJ, DNLM.