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VESALIUS, ANDREAS.
Icones Anatomicae.
Plates with illustrations from Vesalius’s
1543 Fabrica printed from the original woodblocks; 2 folding plates reproducing designs
for the original title page. Half-title. Folio, 547x385 mm, original
1
/
2
pigskin gilt by Frieda
Thiersch, faint soiling on spine, joints and rear cover rubbed; contents clean, vertical crease
in outer margin of second folding plate; uncut; lacks the publisher’s box. Leaf “To the
Reader” laid in.
(Munich), 1934 [i. e., 1935]
[3,000/4,000]
NUMBER
251
OF
615
COPIES
printed at the Bremer Press; issue including Latin explanatory
text. All but 50 of the illustrations were printed from the original blocks, which had been pre-
served in the library of the University of Munich and were subsequently destroyed during
World War II. Cushing VI.A-16.
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(VESALIUS, ANDREAS.) Cushing, Harvey.
A Bio-Bibliography of Andreas
Vesalius.
4to, 253x190 mm, original
1
/
4
leather gilt, spine worn; dampstaining in gutter of
endpapers, offsetting from frontispiece onto title, contents otherwise clean.
FIRST EDITION
,
LIMITED TO
800
COPIES
.
New York: Schuman’s, 1943
[150/250]
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VESLING, JOHANN.
Syntagma anatomicum . . . editio novissima.
52 full-
page engraved anatomical illustrations. [14], 560, [16] pages, including engraved portrait of
the author and additional title dated 1695. 4to, 229x177 mm, contemporary blind-stamped
vellum boards; scattered minor spotting, contemporary owner’s signature in lower outer
corner of additional title, fore edge of B1 ragged, illustration facing page 588 printed
upside down.
Utrecht: Anthony Schouten, 1696
[400/600]
Popular anatomical textbook first published in 1641. Choulant-Frank, page 243; Krivatsy 12328.
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