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VAROLIO, Costanzo (1543-1575). Anatomiae, sive de resolutione corporis humani ad caesarem mediovillanum libri IIII. - Costanzo VAROLIO and Girolamo MERCURIALI (1530-1606). De nervis opticis. Edited by Paolo Aicardi. Frankfurt: Johann Wechel and Peter Fischer, 1591.
2 parts in one, 8o (178 x 107 mm). Printer's woodcut device on titles, several woodcuts in text. Rebound later using a 16th-century antiphonal leaf, overlapping edges (few chips on spine). Provenance: 17th-century signature on front free endpaper (illegible); Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, with his signature on title-page verso; E.F.G. Herbst, by descent to Robert M. Herbst.
BLUMENBACH'S COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The second of Varolio's two books, the posthumously published Anatomiae has been described as a teleologic physiology of man (DSB). Varolio's reputation is largely based on his De nervis opticis (originally published in 1573) in which he presented a new method of dissecting the brain from the base up. This allowed for better observation of the organ's structure. "As a result of his new method of dissecting, Varoli was able to make some contributions to the knowledge of the course and termination of the cranial nerves and to trace the course of the optic nerve approximately to its true termination. His name is perpetuated in the 'pons varolii'" (Garrison-Morton). The second part of this edition comprises the second edition of De nervis opticis. Adams V-278; Choulant-Frank pp. 214-15; cf. Garrison-Morton 1377.2 and 1478 (both for the first edition of De nervis opitcis); NLM/Durling 4541; Waller 9816; Wellcome 6499; Norman 2132.
[Bound with:]
BAUHIN, Gaspard (1560-1624). Anatomica corporis virilis et muliebris historia. Lyons: Jean Le Preux, 1597.
8o. (Some slight marginal spotting.) FIRST EDITION of this revised edition of Bauhin's De corporis humani fabrica (1590), corrected and enlarged with a description of female anatomy. Garrison-Morton 437; NLM/Durling 501; Norman 140.
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BLUMENBACH'S COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The second of Varolio's two books, the posthumously published Anatomiae has been described as a teleologic physiology of man (DSB). Varolio's reputation is largely based on his De nervis opticis (originally published in 1573) in which he presented a new method of dissecting the brain from the base up. This allowed for better observation of the organ's structure. "As a result of his new method of dissecting, Varoli was able to make some contributions to the knowledge of the course and termination of the cranial nerves and to trace the course of the optic nerve approximately to its true termination. His name is perpetuated in the 'pons varolii'" (Garrison-Morton). The second part of this edition comprises the second edition of De nervis opticis. Adams V-278; Choulant-Frank pp. 214-15; cf. Garrison-Morton 1377.2 and 1478 (both for the first edition of De nervis opitcis); NLM/Durling 4541; Waller 9816; Wellcome 6499; Norman 2132.
[Bound with:]
BAUHIN, Gaspard (1560-1624). Anatomica corporis virilis et muliebris historia. Lyons: Jean Le Preux, 1597.
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