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VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64). Icones anatomicae. Munich: The Bremer Press for the New York Academy of Medicine and the University of Munich Library, 1934 [i.e., 1935].
Large 2o (540 x 380 mm). Modern scarlet morocco gilt, with blue, green and rose morocco onlays, by Michael Wilcox; modern cloth box. Provenance: Bonn University Library (ink stamp, title page verso).
The majority of the woodblocks used for Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica and his Epitome survived until their destruction in Munich in World War II. The probable history of the blocks, from their last use in Basel in 1555, through occasional appearances in Augsburg and Ingolstadt in the 18th century, has been traced by Cushing. In 1893 and again in 1932, the blocks, except for the portrait and the initials whose whereabouts were and are unknown, were rediscovered in Munich in the university library, having apparently been transferred there when the university was moved from Ingolstadt to Munich in the 19th century. In 1934-35 the present edition was printed from the original woodblocks by the Bremer Press. The edition includes all the surviving blocks from the Fabrica and Epitome, and also provides photographic reproductions of woodcuts from the lost blocks, the illustrations of Vesalius' other publications, and drawings related to the frontispiece of the Fabrica. The block for the 1555 frontispiece, which survived until it too was destroyed in World War II with the burning of the Louvain University Library, was printed facing the 1543 frontispiece.
The binding of the present copy was commissioned as a gift for Haskell F. Norman's seventieth birthday. Its design, inspired by Vesalius' illustrations and intended as a semi-abstract interpretation of several of his figures, was explained thus by the binder: "Although a modern and scientific man, Vesalius wanted his work to be ornamental, and so the coloured onlays and the fibre patterns in this design are attempts at suggesting both ornament and complicated structure in a modern way."
No. 420 of 615 copies, and one of 30 printed for the use of the University of Munich Library. This copy includes the "Characterum Indices", letterpress transcriptions of Vesalius' explanatory notes keyed to the woodcuts. Cushing VI.A.-16; Norman 2145.
Large 2
The majority of the woodblocks used for Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica and his Epitome survived until their destruction in Munich in World War II. The probable history of the blocks, from their last use in Basel in 1555, through occasional appearances in Augsburg and Ingolstadt in the 18th century, has been traced by Cushing. In 1893 and again in 1932, the blocks, except for the portrait and the initials whose whereabouts were and are unknown, were rediscovered in Munich in the university library, having apparently been transferred there when the university was moved from Ingolstadt to Munich in the 19th century. In 1934-35 the present edition was printed from the original woodblocks by the Bremer Press. The edition includes all the surviving blocks from the Fabrica and Epitome, and also provides photographic reproductions of woodcuts from the lost blocks, the illustrations of Vesalius' other publications, and drawings related to the frontispiece of the Fabrica. The block for the 1555 frontispiece, which survived until it too was destroyed in World War II with the burning of the Louvain University Library, was printed facing the 1543 frontispiece.
The binding of the present copy was commissioned as a gift for Haskell F. Norman's seventieth birthday. Its design, inspired by Vesalius' illustrations and intended as a semi-abstract interpretation of several of his figures, was explained thus by the binder: "Although a modern and scientific man, Vesalius wanted his work to be ornamental, and so the coloured onlays and the fibre patterns in this design are attempts at suggesting both ornament and complicated structure in a modern way."
No. 420 of 615 copies, and one of 30 printed for the use of the University of Munich Library. This copy includes the "Characterum Indices", letterpress transcriptions of Vesalius' explanatory notes keyed to the woodcuts. Cushing VI.A.-16; Norman 2145.