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ACHILLINI, Alessandro (1463-1512). Opusculum perutile de cognitione animae et eius potentiis. Bologna: J.J. de Benedictis, 1503.
8° (202 x 135mm). Half-page woodcut. (Title and a few leaves repaired at inner margin, lower margin of the first and last few gatherings also repaired, occasional light marginal spotting.) 19th-century vellum painted brown, spine titled in gilt (a remboîtage, endpapers renewed).
FIRST EDITION of Achillini's commentary on Augustinus de Ancona's psychological treatise. Achillini, an important anatomist who preceded Vesalius, is credited with the discovery of the trocheal nerve and the eighth pair of cranial nerves. The woodcut delineating the regions of the brain responsible for memory, imagination and other processes, was re-used by Berangario da Carpi in his Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei of 1518. RARE. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 30 years. Not in Durling. Wellcome I, 539; cf. Thorndyke V, 37.
8° (202 x 135mm). Half-page woodcut. (Title and a few leaves repaired at inner margin, lower margin of the first and last few gatherings also repaired, occasional light marginal spotting.) 19th-century vellum painted brown, spine titled in gilt (a remboîtage, endpapers renewed).
FIRST EDITION of Achillini's commentary on Augustinus de Ancona's psychological treatise. Achillini, an important anatomist who preceded Vesalius, is credited with the discovery of the trocheal nerve and the eighth pair of cranial nerves. The woodcut delineating the regions of the brain responsible for memory, imagination and other processes, was re-used by Berangario da Carpi in his Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei of 1518. RARE. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 30 years. Not in Durling. Wellcome I, 539; cf. Thorndyke V, 37.
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