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BAUHIN, Caspar (1560-1624). Theatrum anatomicum. Frankfurt: Matthew Becker [Appendix by the brothers de Bry], 1605.
2 parts in one volume, 8° (194 x 123mm). With the blanks. Full-page engraved illustrations throughout. (Scattered spotting throughout, some browning.) Contemporary red morocco, sides centred with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and his second wife Gasparde la Chastre, gilt triple fillet border, spine with raised bands, lettered directly in gilt, the remaining compartments centred with de Thou and his wife's monogram, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, shelfmark in ink on the front cover). Provenance: Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, statesman; binding) -- George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797-1833, politician and patron of art; bookplate) -- A. Paterson, bookseller (ALS tipped-in, sending the book to:) -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
THE DE THOU -- AGAR-ELLIS COPY IN RED MOROCCO. First edition of one of the best anatomical textbooks of the period. The work collects all of Bauhin's earlier works in one enlarged and revised text with illustrations based on Vasalius, Valverde, Eustachius, Coiter, and others. Heirs of Hippocrates 392 ('a very popular text'); Krivatsy 948; Waller 784; Wellcome I, 724.
2 parts in one volume, 8° (194 x 123mm). With the blanks. Full-page engraved illustrations throughout. (Scattered spotting throughout, some browning.) Contemporary red morocco, sides centred with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and his second wife Gasparde la Chastre, gilt triple fillet border, spine with raised bands, lettered directly in gilt, the remaining compartments centred with de Thou and his wife's monogram, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, shelfmark in ink on the front cover). Provenance: Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, statesman; binding) -- George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797-1833, politician and patron of art; bookplate) -- A. Paterson, bookseller (ALS tipped-in, sending the book to:) -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
THE DE THOU -- AGAR-ELLIS COPY IN RED MOROCCO. First edition of one of the best anatomical textbooks of the period. The work collects all of Bauhin's earlier works in one enlarged and revised text with illustrations based on Vasalius, Valverde, Eustachius, Coiter, and others. Heirs of Hippocrates 392 ('a very popular text'); Krivatsy 948; Waller 784; Wellcome I, 724.
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