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FABRICI, Girolamo (FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, Hieronymus).

Opera omnia anatomica et physiologica, hactenus variis locis ac formis edita; nunc vero certo ordine digesta, & in unum volumen redacta. Accessit Index rerum ac verborum locupletissimus, una cum praefatione Bernardi Siegfried Albini. Editio novissima.

Leiden: Apud Johannem van Kerckhem, 1738.

2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003315

Folio (320 x 203 mm). [48], 452, [22] pp., including half-title, Title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved portrait of Fabrici, woodcut initials, 61 engraved plates (of which 12 folding), numerous woodcut diagrams in text. Bound in 19th-century half-chagrin, ribbed spine with gilt-lettered morocco label, marbled edges (corners bumped, wear to extremities, spine rubbed). Text and plates generally crisp and clean with only very minor occasional spotting. Provenance: Wybrandus Hendriksz (1814-73, Dutch physician, small ink stamp to foot of title-page). A fine copy. ----

Hirsch II, pp. 323-325. Cf. BMN I, p. 76, Bibliotheca Walleriana 2891 & Wellcome III, p. 4 (listing other editions). RARE LEIDEN RE-EDITION by Isaac van der Mijn of the collected medical works by the Italian surgeon & anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente (Girolamo Fabrici, 1533-1619) with an introduction by the German-born Dutch anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770). - Visit our website to see more images!

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