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BIDLOO, Govard (1649-1713). Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis. Amsterdam: for the widow of Joannes van Someren, the heirs of Joannes van Dyk, Henry Boom and widow of Theodore Boom, 1685.
2o (517 x 351 mm). Additional engraved title, engraved portrait by Abraham Bloteling after Grard de Lairesse, 105 numbered engraved plates after Lairesse, probably by Bloteling, numbers 10 and 23 folding, printer's woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces. (Marginal soiling to engraved title, folding plate 10 with a 180mm tear repaired, plate 23 with short tear at fold not touching image.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, covers restored). Provenance: Dr. Cordes, Geneva (inkstamp on title).
FIRST EDITION of this striking anatomical atlas, whose plates after drawings by Grard de Lairesse (1640-1711) display the emotional and slightly morbid tendencies of the Baroque. Lairesse, a painter, draughtsman and printmaker from Lige, contributed to the Gallicization of Dutch art in the latter half of the 17th century. His illustrations for Bidloo, who later served as physician to William of Orange, eerily juxtapose meticulously realistic images of flayed corpses or body parts with objects of everyday life. "For Lairesse, [these illustrations] were an occasion for an artistic meditation on anatomy... His illustrations brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the art of dissection". Probably engraved by Abraham Bloteling, inventor of the mezzotint rocker, the plates were reissued in 1698 by the surgeon William Cowper with English text, without Bidloo's permission (see lot 389).
Choulant-Frank, pp. 251-252; Garrison-Morton 385; Heirs of Hippocrates 667; NLM/Krivatsy 1238; Wellcome II, p. 165; Norman 231.
2o (517 x 351 mm). Additional engraved title, engraved portrait by Abraham Bloteling after Grard de Lairesse, 105 numbered engraved plates after Lairesse, probably by Bloteling, numbers 10 and 23 folding, printer's woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces. (Marginal soiling to engraved title, folding plate 10 with a 180mm tear repaired, plate 23 with short tear at fold not touching image.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, covers restored). Provenance: Dr. Cordes, Geneva (inkstamp on title).
FIRST EDITION of this striking anatomical atlas, whose plates after drawings by Grard de Lairesse (1640-1711) display the emotional and slightly morbid tendencies of the Baroque. Lairesse, a painter, draughtsman and printmaker from Lige, contributed to the Gallicization of Dutch art in the latter half of the 17th century. His illustrations for Bidloo, who later served as physician to William of Orange, eerily juxtapose meticulously realistic images of flayed corpses or body parts with objects of everyday life. "For Lairesse, [these illustrations] were an occasion for an artistic meditation on anatomy... His illustrations brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the art of dissection". Probably engraved by Abraham Bloteling, inventor of the mezzotint rocker, the plates were reissued in 1698 by the surgeon William Cowper with English text, without Bidloo's permission (see lot 389).
Choulant-Frank, pp. 251-252; Garrison-Morton 385; Heirs of Hippocrates 667; NLM/Krivatsy 1238; Wellcome II, p. 165; Norman 231.