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BIDLOO, GODEFRIDI. Anatomia humani corporis... Amsterdam: viduae Joannis á Someren, haeredum Joannis á Dyk, Henrici & viduae Theodori Boom, 1685. Engraved title, portrait by Abraham Bloteling after Gérarde de Lairesse and 105 engraved plates (on 106 sheets), including one folding, after drawings by de Lairesse (and probably engraved by Bloteling). Large folio, 630 x 351 mm. (24 5/8 x 13¾ in.), contemporary plum morocco gilt, each cover with central coat-of-arms blocked in gilt, g.e., rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a few corners repaired; plate 50 stained, 1-inch hole on opposite text leaf (2G) where adhered (with loss of a few words on verso), plate 23 with short tear near fold, some marginal soiling and light spotting. FIRST EDITION. An exceedingly tall copy with plate 10 present as two separate facing plates (not one folding plate [resulting from these joined] as in other copies). Choulant, pp. 251-52; Garrison-Morton 385; Hofer 146; NLM/Krivatsy 1238; Norman 231; Wellcome II:165.
"One of the finest anatomical atlases of the Baroque period... [Lairesse's] illustrations brought the qualitites of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the art of dissection"--Norman.
"One of the finest anatomical atlases of the Baroque period... [Lairesse's] illustrations brought the qualitites of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the art of dissection"--Norman.
Provenance
Fenwick Beekman, bookplate.