Intestinal Vermes. Tapeworms. Medical engraving, Rees' Encyclopedia engraving c1812

by Rees, Abraham

Order Intestina. Fantastic Tapeworm and dissections antique print. Vermes (worms), named by Carolus Linnaeus, the obsolete taxonomy of all non-arthropod invertebrate animals.

Original copperplate engraving by Milton, enhanced by fine later hand-colour. Published c.1812 by Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, for Abraham Rees's Cyclopaedia. 

Having served a long apprenticeship as a reviser of Chambers’s Cyclopaedia, between 1802 and 1820 Rees produced the greatest encyclopedia of the early 18th century, a completely original, finely illustrated work, using the finest artists and experts in each field. With over 240 engravings of famous and unusual subjects, in each of seven volumes, it was titled The Cyclopaedia or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature.

Page size 27 x 21 cm (10.5 x 8.25 inches).