VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan de (ca. 1520-ca. 1588). Anatomia del corpo humano, Rome: A. Salamanca & A. Lafreri, 1560, 2°, FIRST ITALIAN EDITION, engraved title (perforated, soiled and guarded, small embossed label on lower margin, several small wormholes), historiated woodcut initials, 42 full-page copper-engraved illustrations by Beatrizet (B3-4 supplied in manuscript, 2 plates neatly annotated in an early hand, accession number a2, some inner margins guarded, final leaf with marginal repairs, dampstained with occasional soiling, worming to inner margin), later half sheep (worn). [Adams V230 (dating it 1559); Choulant/Frank p. 205; Durling 4532; GM 378.02 (first edition, 1556); Waller 9800; Wellcome I, 6476] Provenance: Mortimer Frank (bookplate)

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VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan de (ca. 1520-ca. 1588). Anatomia del corpo humano, Rome: A. Salamanca & A. Lafreri, 1560, 2°, FIRST ITALIAN EDITION, engraved title (perforated, soiled and guarded, small embossed label on lower margin, several small wormholes), historiated woodcut initials, 42 full-page copper-engraved illustrations by Beatrizet (B3-4 supplied in manuscript, 2 plates neatly annotated in an early hand, accession number a2, some inner margins guarded, final leaf with marginal repairs, dampstained with occasional soiling, worming to inner margin), later half sheep (worn). [Adams V230 (dating it 1559); Choulant/Frank p. 205; Durling 4532; GM 378.02 (first edition, 1556); Waller 9800; Wellcome I, 6476] Provenance: Mortimer Frank (bookplate)

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Valverde de Humusco was the leading Spanish anatomist of his time and this work is the first Italian translation of Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (1556). It was translated by Antonio Tabo under the author's supervision. The plates are thought to be after Gaspar Becerra who was a pupil of Michelangelo. They were copied freely from Vesalius and the text plagiarised from the Fabrica but Valverde does contain revisions and new discoveries.