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.
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