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GUILLEMEAU, Jacques (1550-1613). Tables anatomiques. Paris: Jean Charron, 1586.
2o (314 x 201 mm). Collation: *6 A-D6 E6(4+1, 5 blank) F-I6. 61 leaves. Title engraved within an architecural border (a few marginal tears repaired), xylographic title on verso, engraved portrait of Guillemeau on *6v by Alexandre Valle, 19 full-page engravings, woodcut printer's device at end. (Marginal soiling, a few pale stains.) Contemporary calf, cover edges with gilt roll (rebacked, a few repairs). Provenance: 17th-century manuscript biographical notes on the author on front free endpaper, and some marginalia in the same hand; engraved armorial bookplate.
FIRST EDITION, based on an earlier work by Guillemeau and Michel de Saint-Pierre, entitled Six tables anatomiques and published by Charron in 1571. Guillemeau, a pupil and son-in-law of Par, was physician to Charles IX, Henri III (the dedicatee of this work), and Henri IV. "The Guillemeau engravings are copies, in reverse, of the Valverde engravings, which were copied, in turn, from Vesalius, with additions. The Italian Valverde contains the same illustration as the first Spanish edition, Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano, printed at Rome by Antonio Blado for the same publishers in 1556" (Mortimer). The work was intended for French surgeons unlearned in Latin or Greek. BM/STC French p. 213; Choulant-Frank p. 213; Harvard/Mortimer French 267; Herrlinger pp. 167-68; Norman 956.
2o (314 x 201 mm). Collation: *6 A-D6 E6(4+1, 5 blank) F-I6. 61 leaves. Title engraved within an architecural border (a few marginal tears repaired), xylographic title on verso, engraved portrait of Guillemeau on *6v by Alexandre Valle, 19 full-page engravings, woodcut printer's device at end. (Marginal soiling, a few pale stains.) Contemporary calf, cover edges with gilt roll (rebacked, a few repairs). Provenance: 17th-century manuscript biographical notes on the author on front free endpaper, and some marginalia in the same hand; engraved armorial bookplate.
FIRST EDITION, based on an earlier work by Guillemeau and Michel de Saint-Pierre, entitled Six tables anatomiques and published by Charron in 1571. Guillemeau, a pupil and son-in-law of Par, was physician to Charles IX, Henri III (the dedicatee of this work), and Henri IV. "The Guillemeau engravings are copies, in reverse, of the Valverde engravings, which were copied, in turn, from Vesalius, with additions. The Italian Valverde contains the same illustration as the first Spanish edition, Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano, printed at Rome by Antonio Blado for the same publishers in 1556" (Mortimer). The work was intended for French surgeons unlearned in Latin or Greek. BM/STC French p. 213; Choulant-Frank p. 213; Harvard/Mortimer French 267; Herrlinger pp. 167-68; Norman 956.