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VESALIUS, Andreas. Icones anatomicae. Munich: The Bremer Press for the New York Academy of Medicine and the University of Munich Library, 1934 [i.e., 1935].
Large 2o (548 x 385 mm). Original publisher's half pigskin and boards, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered.
LIMITED EDITION, number 357 of 615 copies. This copy includes the "Characterum Indices", letterpress transcriptions of Vesalius' explanatory notes keyed to the woodcuts. The majority of the woodblocks used for Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica and his Epitome survived until their destruction in Munich in World War II. The probable history of the blocks, from their last use in Basel in 1555, through occasional appearances in Augsburg and Ingolstadt in the 18th century, has been traced by Cushing. In 1893 and again in 1932, the blocks, except for the portrait and the initials whose whereabouts were and are unknown, were rediscovered in Munich in the university library, having apparently been transferred there when the university was moved from Ingolstadt to Munich in the 19th century. In 1934-35 the present edition was printed from the original woodblocks by the Bremer Press. The edition includes all the surviving blocks from the Fabrica and Epitome, and also provides photographic reproductions of woodcuts from the lost blocks, the illustrations of Vesalius' other publications, and drawings related to the frontispiece of the Fabrica. The block for the 1555 frontispiece, which survived until it too was destroyed in World War II with the burning of the Louvain University Library, was printed facing the 1543 frontispiece.
Cushing VI.A.-16; Norman 2145.
Large 2o (548 x 385 mm). Original publisher's half pigskin and boards, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered.
LIMITED EDITION, number 357 of 615 copies. This copy includes the "Characterum Indices", letterpress transcriptions of Vesalius' explanatory notes keyed to the woodcuts. The majority of the woodblocks used for Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica and his Epitome survived until their destruction in Munich in World War II. The probable history of the blocks, from their last use in Basel in 1555, through occasional appearances in Augsburg and Ingolstadt in the 18th century, has been traced by Cushing. In 1893 and again in 1932, the blocks, except for the portrait and the initials whose whereabouts were and are unknown, were rediscovered in Munich in the university library, having apparently been transferred there when the university was moved from Ingolstadt to Munich in the 19th century. In 1934-35 the present edition was printed from the original woodblocks by the Bremer Press. The edition includes all the surviving blocks from the Fabrica and Epitome, and also provides photographic reproductions of woodcuts from the lost blocks, the illustrations of Vesalius' other publications, and drawings related to the frontispiece of the Fabrica. The block for the 1555 frontispiece, which survived until it too was destroyed in World War II with the burning of the Louvain University Library, was printed facing the 1543 frontispiece.
Cushing VI.A.-16; Norman 2145.