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SPIEGEL, Adriaan van den (1578-1625). De humani corporis fabrica libri decem. Edited by Daniel Bucretius (c. 1600-1631). Venice: Evangelista Deuchinus, 1627. 2° (379 x 244mm). Engraved title with architectural border by F. Valesio after O. Fialetti. Woodcut initials and ornaments. (Quire Mm with tear at lower margin.)
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Giulio CASSERIO (1561?-1616). Tabulae anatomicae LXXIIX ... Daniel Bucretius ... XX que deerant supplevit et omnium explicationes addidit. Venice: Evangelista Deuchinus, 1627. 2°. Engraved title with border as above by Valesio after Fialetti. 97 full-page engravings numbered to 95, 77 probably by and after J. Maurer, 20 by Valesio after Fialetti, explanatory text on verso. Woodcut ornaments. (Plates 25, 32 and 43 with long, closed tear, plate 40 and 42 with small repair at lower margin just affecting plate area, plates 58 and 69 torn with some loss and with laminated repair at foot, laminated repairs to plate 78 mainly affecting margins, plate 82 torn with some loss of border and text on verso, plates 1 and 64 a little stained, some short marginal tears.) Contemporary vellum with double fillet in blind, small central lozenge and fleurons at corners, flat spine in compartments with repeated ornament (slightly bowed, new ties, rear endpapers with minor repairs).
FIRST EDITION OF BOTH WORKS, the second work also issued separately. Spiegel had succeeded Giulio Casserio in the chair of anatomy at the University of Padua, Casserio having in turn replaced Fabricius. Daniel Bucretius or Rindfleisch edited Spiegel's posthumous De humani corporis fabrica from his unillustrated manuscript, and obtained from the heirs of Casserio 78 anatomical plates thought to be either by the German draftsman and engraver Joseph Maurer, or alternatively by Francesco Valesio after Odorato Fialetti, and originally intended to illustrate Casserio's unfinished Theatrum anatomicum. Bucretius removed one plate and added 20 others drawn by Valesio after Fialetti, Tintoretto's master pupil. Spiegel's text did much 'to bring order to anatomical nomenclature and to describe accurately certain muscle groups, particularly those of the back,' comments Eimas, while Casserio's plates 'are remarkable for their accuracy, beauty of execution, and tasteful arrangement.' The two works are separated by a blank singleton. Choulant-Frank p. 225; DSB XII, p. 577; GM 381; Heirs of Hippocrates 414; Krivatsy/NLM 11297 and 2202; Waller 9121 and 1812.
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Giulio CASSERIO (1561?-1616). Tabulae anatomicae LXXIIX ... Daniel Bucretius ... XX que deerant supplevit et omnium explicationes addidit. Venice: Evangelista Deuchinus, 1627. 2°. Engraved title with border as above by Valesio after Fialetti. 97 full-page engravings numbered to 95, 77 probably by and after J. Maurer, 20 by Valesio after Fialetti, explanatory text on verso. Woodcut ornaments. (Plates 25, 32 and 43 with long, closed tear, plate 40 and 42 with small repair at lower margin just affecting plate area, plates 58 and 69 torn with some loss and with laminated repair at foot, laminated repairs to plate 78 mainly affecting margins, plate 82 torn with some loss of border and text on verso, plates 1 and 64 a little stained, some short marginal tears.) Contemporary vellum with double fillet in blind, small central lozenge and fleurons at corners, flat spine in compartments with repeated ornament (slightly bowed, new ties, rear endpapers with minor repairs).
FIRST EDITION OF BOTH WORKS, the second work also issued separately. Spiegel had succeeded Giulio Casserio in the chair of anatomy at the University of Padua, Casserio having in turn replaced Fabricius. Daniel Bucretius or Rindfleisch edited Spiegel's posthumous De humani corporis fabrica from his unillustrated manuscript, and obtained from the heirs of Casserio 78 anatomical plates thought to be either by the German draftsman and engraver Joseph Maurer, or alternatively by Francesco Valesio after Odorato Fialetti, and originally intended to illustrate Casserio's unfinished Theatrum anatomicum. Bucretius removed one plate and added 20 others drawn by Valesio after Fialetti, Tintoretto's master pupil. Spiegel's text did much 'to bring order to anatomical nomenclature and to describe accurately certain muscle groups, particularly those of the back,' comments Eimas, while Casserio's plates 'are remarkable for their accuracy, beauty of execution, and tasteful arrangement.' The two works are separated by a blank singleton. Choulant-Frank p. 225; DSB XII, p. 577; GM 381; Heirs of Hippocrates 414; Krivatsy/NLM 11297 and 2202; Waller 9121 and 1812.
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