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VESALIUS, ANDREAS.

Anatomia Deudsch.

Edited by Jacob Bauman. 40 engraved

plates after Thomas Geminus. [2], 78 leaves. Folio, 382x283 mm, 18th-century

vellum

with shelf number stamped in black on spine, hinges cracked, cords intact; marginal soiling

and foxing through most of volume, intermittent marginal dampstaining, plates facing C5r

(Adam and Eve) and K3r cropped in outer margin without image loss, ink stain in blank

upper margin of plate facing D6v, faint creases across plates facing E6v (with paper crack

reinforced on verso), F4v, G4v, K6r, L2r, and N4v, vertical crease in last text leaf; cloth fold-

ing case. Bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries, release stamp

of the latter on title verso.

Nuremberg: Julius Paul Fabricius, 1551

[15,000/25,000]

FIRST EDITION

of an unauthorized German translation of the Epitome with illustrations after

those copied by Geminus from the Epitome and Fabrica for the 1545 London Vesalian piracy.

Cushing VI.D.-4; Durling 4583. With the bookplate and signature dated 1754 of the

German animal painter and engraver Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767).

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