📚 Human Dissection

Books with human dissection on their catalogue record, first published between 1545 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject human dissection in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 302 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Anatomy	Henry Gray F.R.S.	1858	109
	Stiff	Mary Roach	2003	22
	Manual of practical anatomy	D. J. Cunningham	1896	18
	Holden's manual of the dissection of the human body	Luther Holden	1868	8
	A directory for the dissection of the human body	John Cleland	1876	8
	De dissectione partium corporis humani	Charles Estienne	1545	7
	The London dissector, or, System of dissection	James Scratchley	1811	7
	Demonstrations of anatomy	George Viner Ellis	1852	7
	Manual of human dissection	Edwin Morrill Shearer	1937	7
	Dissector	John Charles Boileau Grant	1967	7
	A system of dissections	Sir Charles Bell	1798	6
	A handbook for dissectors	John Charles Boileau Grant	1940	6
	A manual of human anatomy	J. T. Aitken	1956	5
	A new system of anatomy	Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman	1961	5
	Surgical pathology dissection	William H. Westra	1995	5
	Digging Up the Dead	Druin Burch	2007	5
	Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond	Piers Mitchell	2016	5
	Myskotomia	William Molins	1648	4
	A lecture delivered over the remains of Jeremy Bentham, Esq	Southwood Smith	1832	4
	The story of dissection	Jack Kevorkian	1959	4
	Human Anatomy	Kyle E. Rarey	1995	4
	A System of dissections, explaining the anatomy of the human body	Bell, Charles Sir	1809	3
	The dissector's manual	Joseph Henry Green	1820	3
	The dissectors' manual of practical and surgical anatomy	Wilson, Erasmus Sir	1856	3
	Practical human anatomy	Faneuil D. Weisse	1886	3
	Syllabus of post mortem methods for the use of students in the Montreal General Hospital	Wyatt Johnston	1890	3
	A plea for practical work in anatomy	Cooke, Thomas	1893	3
	The human brain and spinal cord	Lennart Heimer	1983	3
	A.D.A.M. interactive anatomy dissection manual	Martha DePecol Sanner	1998	3
	Jintaikan no rekishi	Tatsuo Sakai	2008	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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