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FALLOPPIO, Gabriele (ca. 1523-1562). Observationes anatomicae. Venice: Marco Antonio Ulmo and Gratioso Perchachino, 1561.
8o (148 x 93 mm). Printer's woodcut devices on title and at end. (Some pale marginal staining, light dampstaining crossing lower portion of text on some leaves near end, a few single wormholes just catching a few letters on title, fore-margin on B2 slightly frayed affecting first letters of shoulder note.) Contemporary German pigskin, blocked and tooled in blind, front cover with central panel depicting allegorical figure of Justice with motto below, rear cover with central panel depicting allegorical figure of Chastity with motto below (some darkening), cloth folding case. Provenance: Josephus de Strachwitz (18th-century ownership inscription on title, "...Josephus de Strachwitz S.O.C. Abbas Raud. procuravit 1730").
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of Falloppio's detailed critical commentary on Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Falloppius studied under Vesalius and became professor of anatomy first at Ferrara, and later Pisa and finally Padua. "He was a careful dissector, a great observer, and an accurate recorder. He discovered and first described the chorda tympani and semicircular canals, correctly described the structure and course of the cerebral vessels, knew the circular folds of the small intestines. He enumerated all the nerves of the eye, and introduced a number of anatomical names. He is eponymously remembered by the Fallopian tube and the Fallopian aqueduct" (Garrison-Morton). Vesalius responded positively to his student's work with his posthumously published Examen on Falloppio, published in 1564. The Norman copy is of the earliest issue, with errata leaf *8 (later cancelled with some sheets reprinted). Garrison-Morton 378.2, 1208 and 1537; Osler 593; Waller 2935; Norman 757.
8o (148 x 93 mm). Printer's woodcut devices on title and at end. (Some pale marginal staining, light dampstaining crossing lower portion of text on some leaves near end, a few single wormholes just catching a few letters on title, fore-margin on B2 slightly frayed affecting first letters of shoulder note.) Contemporary German pigskin, blocked and tooled in blind, front cover with central panel depicting allegorical figure of Justice with motto below, rear cover with central panel depicting allegorical figure of Chastity with motto below (some darkening), cloth folding case. Provenance: Josephus de Strachwitz (18th-century ownership inscription on title, "...Josephus de Strachwitz S.O.C. Abbas Raud. procuravit 1730").
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of Falloppio's detailed critical commentary on Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Falloppius studied under Vesalius and became professor of anatomy first at Ferrara, and later Pisa and finally Padua. "He was a careful dissector, a great observer, and an accurate recorder. He discovered and first described the chorda tympani and semicircular canals, correctly described the structure and course of the cerebral vessels, knew the circular folds of the small intestines. He enumerated all the nerves of the eye, and introduced a number of anatomical names. He is eponymously remembered by the Fallopian tube and the Fallopian aqueduct" (Garrison-Morton). Vesalius responded positively to his student's work with his posthumously published Examen on Falloppio, published in 1564. The Norman copy is of the earliest issue, with errata leaf *8 (later cancelled with some sheets reprinted). Garrison-Morton 378.2, 1208 and 1537; Osler 593; Waller 2935; Norman 757.