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VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, August 1555.
2o (415 x 282 mm). Woodcut dedicatory frontipiece showing Vesalius lecturing from the dissection table, portrait of Vesalius, about 200 woodcut text illustrations, 23 full-page, and two folding plates; numerous historiated initials. (Title leaf mounted and with a few early reinforcements, lacking final leaf Ee6, blank except for publisher's device on verso, some mostly marginal staining and worming [mostly at the beginning and end], occasional pale spotting.) Modern vellum; buckram folding case.
Third edition, and SECOND FOLIO EDITION, establishing the corrected and revised authorial text, a publication "even more lavish than the first" ( Heirs of Hippocrates). It was printed on heavier paper with larger type (49 instead of 50 lines to the page), a new set of woodcut initials was cut, and the famous frontispiece of an anatomy was recut, now with a clothed (previously naked) figure perching on the left. The highly influential, elegant and scientific anatomical illustrations and portrait of Vesalius are printed from the original 1543 blocks.
Adams V-605; Choulant-Frank, pp. 181-82; Cushing VI.A.-3; Garrison-Morton-Norman 377; NLM/Durling 4579; Norman 2139; Osler 568; Waller 9901; Wellcome 6562.
2o (415 x 282 mm). Woodcut dedicatory frontipiece showing Vesalius lecturing from the dissection table, portrait of Vesalius, about 200 woodcut text illustrations, 23 full-page, and two folding plates; numerous historiated initials. (Title leaf mounted and with a few early reinforcements, lacking final leaf Ee6, blank except for publisher's device on verso, some mostly marginal staining and worming [mostly at the beginning and end], occasional pale spotting.) Modern vellum; buckram folding case.
Third edition, and SECOND FOLIO EDITION, establishing the corrected and revised authorial text, a publication "even more lavish than the first" ( Heirs of Hippocrates). It was printed on heavier paper with larger type (49 instead of 50 lines to the page), a new set of woodcut initials was cut, and the famous frontispiece of an anatomy was recut, now with a clothed (previously naked) figure perching on the left. The highly influential, elegant and scientific anatomical illustrations and portrait of Vesalius are printed from the original 1543 blocks.
Adams V-605; Choulant-Frank, pp. 181-82; Cushing VI.A.-3; Garrison-Morton-Norman 377; NLM/Durling 4579; Norman 2139; Osler 568; Waller 9901; Wellcome 6562.