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VERHEYEN, Philipp (1648-1710). Corporis humani anatomia. Louvain: Aegidius Denique, 1693.
4o (200 x 160 mm). 30 engraved plates, including 29 folding. (Lacks endpapers, a few gatherings loose.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Provenance: de Catolybe (?) 1737 (ownership inscription on preliminary blank); Speyer & Peters, Berlin (bookseller's ticket inside upper cover).
FIRST EDITION. Verheyen's work replaced Thomas Bartholin's Institutiones anatomicae as a popular anatomical textbook. Choulant, pp. 248-249; Garrison-Morton 388; NLM/Krivatsy 12296; Norman 2133.
4o (200 x 160 mm). 30 engraved plates, including 29 folding. (Lacks endpapers, a few gatherings loose.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Provenance: de Catolybe (?) 1737 (ownership inscription on preliminary blank); Speyer & Peters, Berlin (bookseller's ticket inside upper cover).
FIRST EDITION. Verheyen's work replaced Thomas Bartholin's Institutiones anatomicae as a popular anatomical textbook. Choulant, pp. 248-249; Garrison-Morton 388; NLM/Krivatsy 12296; Norman 2133.