Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

202 ● ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED. Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii. 89 engraved plates, comprising 47 after Eustachi with the remainder duplicates in outline. [8], 28, 277 [i. e., 275], [3] pages, including half-title. Folio, 397x250 mm, contemporary calf gilt with front cover skillfully replaced, spine and rear cover worn, front endpapers renewed; text leaves toned or browned, dampstain in outer margin of text leaves at beginning and end, plates generally clean apart from occasional minor marginal foxing or soiling, small stain in blank portion of plates 18/1 and 18/2. Stamp of Prof. Lejeune of Cologne on half-title and title. TALL COPY . Leiden: (Typographia Dammeana for) Johannes Arnold Langerak et al., 1744 [800/1,200] FIRST ALBINUS EDITION of Bartolommeo Eustachi’s Tabulae anatomicae, and the first to include outline plates as a learning aid.The engravings of Eustachi’s drawings were completed in the mid- 16th century but remained unpublished until their rediscovery in the Vatican Library in the early 18th century, when they were presented by Pope Clement XI to his physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, who first published them in 1714. Garrison-Morton 391 (original edition,“more accurate than the work of Vesalius”); Choulant-Frank, page 202; Heirs of Hippocrates 326 (this edition). 2 0 3 ● ALDROVANDI , UL I S SE . Monstrorum historia. Over 450 woodcut illustrations of monsters, prodigies, portents, etc. [8], 748, [28]; 159, [9] pages, including engraved title by Giovanni Battista Coriolano with portrait of the dedicatee, Ferdinando de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and final blank. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 357x240 mm, 17th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with metal catches, lacking clasps, somewhat soiled and worn overall, endpapers renewed; occasional toning or browning and mostly marginal foxing and dampstains, genitalia inked out on most woodcuts where they appear, ink blot over illustration on verso of D3 oxidized with resulting small holes slightly affecting text on recto. Vienna apothecary inscription dated 1658 on title. Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (for Marco Antonio Bernia), 1642 [3,000/5,000] FIRST EDITION ; with colophon dated 1642. “Aldrovandi assembled a large collection of specimens and notes on monsters which were published posthumously by Bartholommeo Ambrosini (1588- 1657), who added a number of personally observed cases. Among the latter is the first detailed description of bladder exstrophy.Valuable case descriptions are mingled with fictitious ones, including specimens of false chimeras apparently created to please Aldrovandi’s patrons”—Garrison-Morton 534.53.Alden 642/2 (for NewWorld curiosities); Heirs of Hippocrates 330; Nissen ZBI 74. 203 [ SEE ALSO BACK COVER ]