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VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, JUAN. La Anatomia del Corpo Humano. [18], 82, [4], 83-154 leaves, including engraved title, portrait, and 46 full-page

VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, JUAN. La Anatomia del Corpo Humano. [18], 82, [4], 83-154 leaves, including engraved title, portrait, and 46 full-page engraved illustrations. Folio, old vellum, joints cracked, cords intact; some marginal dampstaining, foxing, and soiling, scattered contemporary marginalia including a few in margins of illustrations, first gathering partly loose, lacks front free endpaper. Frederic Wood Jones bookplate. Venice: i Giunti, 1586

  • Notes: Second edition of the 1560 Italian translation, with 4 additional illustrations not in the first. Valverde's anatomical atlas was originally published in Spanish in 1556 with illustrations and text largely plagiarized from Vesalius, though with some changes and corrections. Choulant-Frank, pages 205-08; Cushing VI.D.-37; Palau 349368.

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