BIDLOO, Govard (1649-1713). Anatomia humani corporis, Amsterdam: widow of J. van Someren, heirs of J. van Dyk, Henry and widow of T. Boom, 1685, 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved additional title (margins soiled), engraved portrait by Bloteling after de Lairesse, 105 engraved plates, 2 folding, after drawings by de Lairesse, probably engraved by Bloteling (perforation stamp on title, plates stamped on versos, D1 and Qq1 with marginal repairs, one leaf with contemporary notes, some leaves and plates soiled, several plates neatly repaired, final leaf and a few plates on guards), 19th-century morocco-backed marbled boards (rubbed). [Choulant/Frank p. 250; GM 385; Krivatsy 1238; Norman 231; Wellcome II, p. 165] Provenance: JCL (Senn Collection)

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BIDLOO, Govard (1649-1713). Anatomia humani corporis, Amsterdam: widow of J. van Someren, heirs of J. van Dyk, Henry and widow of T. Boom, 1685, 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved additional title (margins soiled), engraved portrait by Bloteling after de Lairesse, 105 engraved plates, 2 folding, after drawings by de Lairesse, probably engraved by Bloteling (perforation stamp on title, plates stamped on versos, D1 and Qq1 with marginal repairs, one leaf with contemporary notes, some leaves and plates soiled, several plates neatly repaired, final leaf and a few plates on guards), 19th-century morocco-backed marbled boards (rubbed). [Choulant/Frank p. 250; GM 385; Krivatsy 1238; Norman 231; Wellcome II, p. 165] Provenance: JCL (Senn Collection)

Lot Essay

Norman: "One of the finest anatomical atlases of the Baroque period ... [Lairesse's] illustrations brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the art of dissection." It was blatantly plagiarised by Cowper (see Lot 214).

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