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VESALIUS, Andreas.

Anatomia; in qua tota humani corporis fabrica , iconibus elegantissimis ... aeri incisis ... additis unicuiq(ue) figurae notis.

Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius, 1617.

5th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002963

Folio (377 x 255 mm). 50 unfoliated leaves, signatures: *⁴ A⁶ B⁵ C-G⁶ H⁴. Engraved allegorical title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 40 engravings on 39 plates, numbered A-Z, a-r (including the folding engraved plate A of Adam and Eve), woodcut headpieces and -initials. Bound in contemporary full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered label, boards ruled in blind and with ink decoration, monogram "HF" and dated "1621" to upper board (old repairs to spine and corners, boards soiled and stained, some edge chipping), old endpapers frayed. Light browning of text and plates, some light mostly marginal waterstains, lower corner of first leaves chipped and rounded, occasional short tears, edge chipping and dust-soiling, oversized plate n slightly shaved at fore-edge. Provenance: Piergiorgio Borio (bookplate to front pastedown), Brooklyn Public Library (bookplate to front pastedown), bookplate with initials "PGB" to front pastedown. ----

NLM/Krivatsy 12321; Waller 9919; Cushing VI.D.-12; Choulant p.195. Rare Vesalius edition (5th Latin Geminus edition), published by the professor H. Botter from Cologne with the anatomical illustrations engraved in copper instead of woodcuts. In this edition, the dates that appeared at the end of the preface in the earlier 1600-1601 edition have been erased. Likewise, the date on the last page has been overwritten in ink, changing it from 1601 to 1617. The plates have text captions in both Latin and German, having been otherwise taken directly from Thomas Geminus' 1545 edition; the German text was copied from Baumann's German edition of 1551. - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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