Item #002322 Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata. Govard BIDLOO.
Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.
Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.
Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.
Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.
Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.
Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.
Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.
Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.

Anatomia Humani Corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, demonstrata.

Amsterdam: For the Widow of Joannes van Someren, the Heirs of Joannes van Dyk, Henry Boom and Widow of Theodore Boom, 1685.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002322

Large Folio (503 x 353 mm). Collation *6 (A-3Q)1, 68 unnumbered text leaves. Includes engraved allegorical additional title, engraved portrait by Abraham Bloteling after Gérard de Lairesse, 105 numbered engraved plates after Lairesse, probably by Bloteling (nos. 10 and 23 folding), woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Contemporary gilt-panelled red morocco (top and bottom spine compartments damaged, hinges cracked but holding, corners worn and bumped, boards and extremities rubbed), cut edges partially gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor occasional spotting and marginal finger soiling, occasional offsetting from plates, small stain in blank area of letterpress title; plates 46, 49, and 63 with small stains, plate 10 torn and repaired on verso, separated at fold and partly creased. Provenance: Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau*, inscription on first flyleaf ('ex bibliotheca Tilesiana, Lips[iae], 1800'); Rush Medical College Library (bookplate on front pastedown, their stamp on verso of additional title and portrait, recto of letterpress title, and a few text leaves). A fine copy with ample margins. Complete. ----

Norman 231; Choulant, pp. 250-3; Heirs of Hippocrates 667; Garrison-M 384; NLM/Krivatsy 1238; Russell, British Anatomy, 211; Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 309-17; Wellcome II, p.165; Waller 1039; Dumaitre, La Curieuse Destinie des Planches Anatomiques de Girard de Lairesse (1982). -
First Edition and very rare when complete (portrait and plate no. 2 are often lacking). "Bidloo, professor of anatomy at The Hague, was at one time physician to William of Orange. An English contemporary, William Cowper, furnished his Anatomy of humane bodies almost completely with engravings plagiarized from this book by Bidloo, who promptly and publicly excoriated Cowper in a published communication to the Royal Society. Before the days of copyright, this is one of the most famous instances of plagiarism in the history of medicine...These plates are considered among the finest illustrations of the Baroque period,..." (Heirs of Hippocrates 667).
"The value of Bidloo's 'Anatomia' lies chiefly in the 105 fine copperplate engravings drawn by Gerard de Lairesse, and engraved by Pieter van Gunst. These are masterpieces of Dutch baroque art" (Garrison-M).
"One of the finest anatomical atlases of the Baroque period. The 105 plates were drawn by the painter Gerard de Lairesse, under whose influence the French style of Poussin and Lorraine became dominant in Holland. For Lairesse, the anatomical illustrations Bidloo asked him to undertake were an occasion for an artistic meditation on anatomy: he displayed his figures in an emotional, almost tender manner, contrasting the raw dissected parts with the full, soft surfaces of uncut flesh, placing flayed, bound figures in ordinary nightclothes or bedding, setting ordinary household objects such as books, jars or cabinets in the same scene as cut-up torsos or limbs, and in one plate showing a fly crawling on an opened abdomen. His illustrations brought the quality of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spritual expression to the significance of the act of dissection. According to the most recent scholarship, the plates were probably engraved by Abraham Bloteling, inventor of the rocker tool for mezzoprint engraving." (Norman 231)
"The book took six years to make, and it was not a best seller, even by 17th-century standards. The publisher probably sold the plates to try to recoup some of his losses. But today, the 100 copies still in existence are the prized treasures of the world's great academic libraries, among them Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale and Vassar" (Vassar College Libraries).
*Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769-1857) was a German naturalist, explorer, physician, draftsman and engraver.

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