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GUILLEMEAU, Jacques (1550-1613). Tables anatomiques. Paris: Jean Charron, 1586.
2o (311 x 212 mm). Collation: *6 (-*1 [blank]) A-D6 E8 F-I6. 61 (of 62) leaves. Title-page engraved within an architectural border, xylographic title on verso. Engraved portrait of Guillemeau on *6v by Alexandre Vallée, 19 full-page engravings, woodcut printer's device at end. (Small wormhole at lower margin, occasionally affecting a few letters and plates, A4 and H2 with small marginal tears not affecting text, some minor marginal soiling.) Contemporary limp vellum (soiled); quarter calf clamshell box. Provenance: early ink annotations throughout.
FIRST EDITION. Guillemeau, a pupil and son-in-law of Paré was surgeon to Charles IX, Henri III and Henri III of France. He is noted particularly for his contributions to dentistry, ophthalmology, and obstetrics. His Tables anatomiques, based upon his earlier Six tables anatomiques (1571; with Michel de Saint-Pierre), was intended for French surgeons unlearned in Greek or Latin. In later editions, the work was combined with Guillemeau's La chirurgerie françoise. According to Mortimer, Guillemeau's anatomical plates were copies in reverse of the engravings in the Venice, 1560 edition of Valverde's Anatomia del corpo humano, which in turn were copies, with additions, of the Vesalian anatomical woodcuts. The magnificent engraved title is an excellent example of Baroque architectural title design (1594). BM/STC French p.213; Choulant-Frank p.213; Harvard/Mortimer French 267; Herrlinger pp.167-68; Norman 956.
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FIRST EDITION. Guillemeau, a pupil and son-in-law of Paré was surgeon to Charles IX, Henri III and Henri III of France. He is noted particularly for his contributions to dentistry, ophthalmology, and obstetrics. His Tables anatomiques, based upon his earlier Six tables anatomiques (1571; with Michel de Saint-Pierre), was intended for French surgeons unlearned in Greek or Latin. In later editions, the work was combined with Guillemeau's La chirurgerie françoise. According to Mortimer, Guillemeau's anatomical plates were copies in reverse of the engravings in the Venice, 1560 edition of Valverde's Anatomia del corpo humano, which in turn were copies, with additions, of the Vesalian anatomical woodcuts. The magnificent engraved title is an excellent example of Baroque architectural title design (1594). BM/STC French p.213; Choulant-Frank p.213; Harvard/Mortimer French 267; Herrlinger pp.167-68; Norman 956.