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VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Opera omnia anatomica et chirurgica. Lyons: J. du Vivié and J.& H. Verbeek, 1725.
2 volumes in one, 2° (434 x 280 mm.). Half-title, title in red and black, fleuron to title, engraved frontispiece and portrait, 67 full-page plates and 38 vignettes of human anatomy, all engraved by J. Wandelaar, numerous woodcut text diagrams, ornamental initials. (Short marginal clean tears to 3 leaves, marginal dampstaining to first 8 gatherings and last 5 leaves, browning). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, gilt armorial to covers 'Zwollae' (corners repaired, rebacked, loss of a few small sections).
Andreas Vesalius published his most influential work first in 1543, in Basel. The present edition was undertaken by two of the greatest physicians of the eighteenth century, Bernard Sigfried Albinus (1696-1770) and Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738). They both taught in the university of Leyden, where they spent their whole career, Albinus as chair of Anatomy and Surgery. "Il fut un des premiers à faire ressortir l'importance du système de Boerhaave... et imposa ainsi aux anatomistes l'obligation d'une étude plus exacte des formes et de la structure intime du corps humain" (Nouvelle Biographie Générale, I, p.635). Brunet V, 1151.
2 volumes in one, 2° (434 x 280 mm.). Half-title, title in red and black, fleuron to title, engraved frontispiece and portrait, 67 full-page plates and 38 vignettes of human anatomy, all engraved by J. Wandelaar, numerous woodcut text diagrams, ornamental initials. (Short marginal clean tears to 3 leaves, marginal dampstaining to first 8 gatherings and last 5 leaves, browning). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, gilt armorial to covers 'Zwollae' (corners repaired, rebacked, loss of a few small sections).
Andreas Vesalius published his most influential work first in 1543, in Basel. The present edition was undertaken by two of the greatest physicians of the eighteenth century, Bernard Sigfried Albinus (1696-1770) and Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738). They both taught in the university of Leyden, where they spent their whole career, Albinus as chair of Anatomy and Surgery. "Il fut un des premiers à faire ressortir l'importance du système de Boerhaave... et imposa ainsi aux anatomistes l'obligation d'une étude plus exacte des formes et de la structure intime du corps humain" (Nouvelle Biographie Générale, I, p.635). Brunet V, 1151.