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PICCOLOMINI, Arcelango.

Anatome integra revisa tabulis explanata & iconibus mirificam humani corporis fabricam ad ipsum naturae archetypum exprimentibus / cum praefatione ac emendatione Joannis Fantoni.

Verona: G. G. de Ferrari, 1754.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #002862

Large Folio (400 x 248 mm). 60, [8] pp., 8 (3 folding) engraved plates. Bound in near contemporary paste paper over boards, ink lettering to spine (extremities worn, boards and spine rubbed). Text and plates generally crisp and clean with only ver minor faint spotting, each folding plate reinforced with horizontal paper stripe at blank verso. Provenance: Samuel Christian Lucä (neat inscription on title page with place and date, Tübingen 1807, and a later bookplate on front pastedown). Fine copy. ----

NLM/Blake 378; Choulant 233. - EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PIRATED EDITION of Remmelin's Catoptrum microcosmicum (first printed 1619). "The three principal plates of Remmelin's Catoptrum, and the many smaller pictures superimposed, totaled before they were cut out and pasted together, five copperplates [actually 8]. These original plates of Remmelin's seem to have fallen into the hands of a Veronese book-dealer who used them for speculation, asserting that he had obtained possession of the plates from the anatomist Piccolhomini, and published them as a posthumous work of Piccolhomini, purporting to be revised by Fantoni... In this work, the plates reveal themselves as the original ones of Remmelin through the names of J. R. inventor, L. K. sculpor, Stephan Michelspacher excudit, which were engraved upon the first of the plates. The anatomist Fantoni whose name is probably misused, like that of Piccolhomini, was born in Turin, 1675, and died there as a professor and royal body-physician in 1758. He should be distinguished from the Bolognese anatomist Fantoni who gave instructions in anatomy in the academy of the Caracci." (Choulant).
* Samuel Christian Lucä, born 1787 in Frankfurt and died 1821 in Marburg as Professor. - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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