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SPIGELIUS, ADRIANUS. Opera omnia quae extant. 5 engraved plates and 112 mostly full-page anatomical illustrations (with the engraving on page 57
SPIGELIUS, ADRIANUS. Opera omnia quae extant. 5 engraved plates and 112 mostly full-page anatomical illustrations (with the engraving on page 57 mounted over upside-down original). [24], 303, [15], 199, [1], [4], 49, [1], [2], xxxv, [13], xxxviiii-lxxxvi, [6]; [8], 155, [9] pages, including engraved general title and portrait of the author (without the 12 lines of verse); slip with letterpress table of contents to De motu cordis mounted on page lxiiii. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 437x275 mm, later 19th-century 1/4 dyed pigskin, spine ends and joints worn, raised bands rubbed; contents toned with occasional minor spotting and marginal soiling, some text gatherings browned, dampstaining in blank outer margins toward end, plates generally clean, old institutional stamps on title and next leaf. wide-margined copy. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1645
- Notes: first collected edition, also containing the text of Gaspare Aselli's De lactibus and the fifth edition of William Harvey's De motu cordis. The illustrations "... mark a new epoch in the history of anatomical representation, owing to the correctness of their anatomic drawing, their tasteful arrangement, and the beauty of their technical execution"--Choulant-Frank, page 228. DSB XII, 577-78; Garrison-Morton 61.2, 5229; Heirs of Hippocrates 284; Keynes (Harvey) 5; Waller 9124.
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