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VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan (fl. 1552). La Anatomia del corpo umano ... Nuovamente ristampata. E con l'aggiunta di alcune tavole ampliata. Venice: Giunta, 1586. 2° (280 x 193 mm). Engraved title page and 44 full-page anatomical engravings only (of 46), including the four plates of "muscle men" (title page detached, lacking A1-A6 [which include the engraved portrait and part of the index], S1, and CC6; R6 repaired with some facsimile, tear to M2; some spotting and soiling, water-stain to last few gatherings). Contemporary vellum, spine hand-lettered in ink (spine head chipped, rubbing with loss to upper corners). Wellcome I, 6477; Heirs of Hippocrates 319; Norman 2128; Waller 9806; Durling 4533; Adams V231. Sold not subject to return.
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VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan (fl. 1552). La Anatomia del corpo umano ... Nuovamente ristampata. E con l'aggiunta di alcune tavole ampliata. Venice: Giunta, 1586. 2° (280 x 193 mm). Engraved title page and 44 full-page anatomical engravings only (of 46), including the four plates of "muscle men" (title page detached, lacking A1-A6 [which include the engraved portrait and part of the index], S1, and CC6; R6 repaired with some facsimile, tear to M2; some spotting and soiling, water-stain to last few gatherings). Contemporary vellum, spine hand-lettered in ink (spine head chipped, rubbing with loss to upper corners). Wellcome I, 6477; Heirs of Hippocrates 319; Norman 2128; Waller 9806; Durling 4533; Adams V231. Sold not subject to return.

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VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan (fl. 1552). La Anatomia del corpo umano ... Nuovamente ristampata. E con l'aggiunta di alcune tavole ampliata. Venice: Giunta, 1586. 2° (280 x 193 mm). Engraved title page and 44 full-page anatomical engravings only (of 46), including the four plates of "muscle men" (title page detached, lacking A1-A6 [which include the engraved portrait and part of the index], S1, and CC6; R6 repaired with some facsimile, tear to M2; some spotting and soiling, water-stain to last few gatherings). Contemporary vellum, spine hand-lettered in ink (spine head chipped, rubbing with loss to upper corners). Wellcome I, 6477; Heirs of Hippocrates 319; Norman 2128; Waller 9806; Durling 4533; Adams V231. Sold not subject to return.
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