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BERENGARIO DE CARPI, Giacomo. Isagogae Breves plucide ac uberrime in Anatomia humani corporis. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1523.
4° in 8's (190 x 140mm.). Title with decorative architectural woodcut surround incorporating a scene of a dissection, 23 full-page anatomical woodcut illustrations, printer's woodcut device on final leaf, each within typographic borders (outer margins shaved with loss of letters to marginal text of woodcuts. Modern vellum.
SECOND EDITION.The first complete edition, with the addition of three further anatomical woodcuts, 8 more leaves of text and the revision of several illustrations in comparison to the first edition of 1522. The woodcuts are considered to be the first illustrations from nature. Durling 534; Welcome I,783; Choulant-Frank p.140; Norman 189.
4° in 8's (190 x 140mm.). Title with decorative architectural woodcut surround incorporating a scene of a dissection, 23 full-page anatomical woodcut illustrations, printer's woodcut device on final leaf, each within typographic borders (outer margins shaved with loss of letters to marginal text of woodcuts. Modern vellum.
SECOND EDITION.The first complete edition, with the addition of three further anatomical woodcuts, 8 more leaves of text and the revision of several illustrations in comparison to the first edition of 1522. The woodcuts are considered to be the first illustrations from nature. Durling 534; Welcome I,783; Choulant-Frank p.140; Norman 189.