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ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564)
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543. Royal 2° (411 x 273mm). Roman, italic, Hebrew and Greek types. With the two folding sheets following m2 and p3, and with single leaf inserted in quire m ('Charta parvas aliquot figuras complectens', signed m3). Woodcut pictorial title, author portrait, over 200 woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page skeletons and 14 full-page muscle-men, printer's device at end, many woodcut historiated and ornamental initials from several sets. (Title defective at edges, repaired in facsimile and mounted, numerous other leaves repaired at margin, occasionally touching text, folding plates with minor repairs at folds, last leaf with extensive marginal replacement and one letter in facsimile, 20th-century ownership ink stamps throughout.) 18th-century vellum, red leather spine label (repaired, new endleaves). Provenance: Stanescu family (3 generations: Alessandro, George and Cristian Stanescu; monogram ink stamps).
FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST FAMOUS ANATOMICAL WORK EVER PUBLISHED... AND THE MILESTONE IN ALL MEDICAL HISTORY' (Heirs of Hippocrates). The Fabrica is 'a complete anatomical and physiological study of every part of the human body' (PMM). Vesalius broke new ground in his method and observations, based on the then radical practice of dissecting the human body, thus fundamentally dividing the study of anatomy into pre- and post-Vesalian periods. The Fabrica combines scientific exposition, art and typography in a manner unprecedented in the 16th century and rarely equalled in later ages. The woodblock illustrations, prepared in Venice under Vesalius's supervision, were highly influential and were re-used or copied for over a century. The work opens with a full-page scene of an anatomical theatre showing the dissection of a female corpse in progress, the 14 muscle-men stand in landscapes that together form a panorama of the Euganean Hills near Padua, where Vesalius studied, and even the woodcut initials depict activities associated with the dissecting room. Adams V-603; Dibner, Heralds of Science 122; Garrison-Morton 375; Heirs of Hippocrates 281; Grolier Medicine 18A; NLM/Durling 4577; PMM 71; Wellcome 6560; Norman 2137.
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543. Royal 2° (411 x 273mm). Roman, italic, Hebrew and Greek types. With the two folding sheets following m2 and p3, and with single leaf inserted in quire m ('Charta parvas aliquot figuras complectens', signed m3). Woodcut pictorial title, author portrait, over 200 woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page skeletons and 14 full-page muscle-men, printer's device at end, many woodcut historiated and ornamental initials from several sets. (Title defective at edges, repaired in facsimile and mounted, numerous other leaves repaired at margin, occasionally touching text, folding plates with minor repairs at folds, last leaf with extensive marginal replacement and one letter in facsimile, 20th-century ownership ink stamps throughout.) 18th-century vellum, red leather spine label (repaired, new endleaves). Provenance: Stanescu family (3 generations: Alessandro, George and Cristian Stanescu; monogram ink stamps).
FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST FAMOUS ANATOMICAL WORK EVER PUBLISHED... AND THE MILESTONE IN ALL MEDICAL HISTORY' (Heirs of Hippocrates). The Fabrica is 'a complete anatomical and physiological study of every part of the human body' (PMM). Vesalius broke new ground in his method and observations, based on the then radical practice of dissecting the human body, thus fundamentally dividing the study of anatomy into pre- and post-Vesalian periods. The Fabrica combines scientific exposition, art and typography in a manner unprecedented in the 16th century and rarely equalled in later ages. The woodblock illustrations, prepared in Venice under Vesalius's supervision, were highly influential and were re-used or copied for over a century. The work opens with a full-page scene of an anatomical theatre showing the dissection of a female corpse in progress, the 14 muscle-men stand in landscapes that together form a panorama of the Euganean Hills near Padua, where Vesalius studied, and even the woodcut initials depict activities associated with the dissecting room. Adams V-603; Dibner, Heralds of Science 122; Garrison-Morton 375; Heirs of Hippocrates 281; Grolier Medicine 18A; NLM/Durling 4577; PMM 71; Wellcome 6560; Norman 2137.
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