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Published by Per Ioannem Oporinum, Basel, 1555
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555]. Second and best folio edition (first published in 1543) of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century. With author's final additions and corrections as well as a renewed woodcut title-page and and initials. Large folio (16 x 10 7/8 inches; 407 x 275 mm). [12], 504, [1, folding table paginated "505"], [1, unpaginated leaf of figures to be superimposed], 507-824, [48] pp. Collation: a-z6 A-V6 X2 (including fold-out sheet) Y-Z6 aa6 bb8 (bb 6-7 is fold-out sheet) cc- zz6 Aa8 Bb-Ee6. Complete with woodcut title, woodcut portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations (including nineteen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, and seven-to twelve-line historiated woodcut initials. Full 17th century paneled calf, boards paneled in gilt. Rebacked with early spine laid- down. Spine stamped in gilt. Red Morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. With some expert restoration to folding plates. A small professional repair to page 203. Some minor marginal staining to pages 509-566 and 794 through the end. A handsome copy with crisp clean pages. Overall a very good copy. "This edition contains Vesalius's final revisions of the text, along with significant typographical improvements and refinements. Oporinus set the second folio edition in larger type (forty-nine instead of fifty-seven lines per page), which required recutting of all the small initials letters so that they could fit seven lines of the new type. Oporinus also used heavier and finer paper for the second edition, and improved the presswork so that the second edition is a superior example of bookmaking" (Norman Library). Aside from the renewed engraved title-page and initials, this second edition (1555) used the same plates as the first edition. The woodblocks survived in Germany until the Second World War during which they were destroyed while in the Munich Library. Before they were destroyed in the war, the Bremer press published their 1935 Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis Icones Anatomicae edition useing the original blocks from 1543 and 1555, and interspersed passages of text, the "key" to the illustrations from the 1555 (present) edition. "The young Vesalius, with an iconoclastic zeal characteristic of the sixteenth century, and a forcible style all his own, endeavoured to do all that Galen had done and to do it better. The result was â The Structure of the Human Body', published when he was twenty-nine; a complete anatomical and physiological study of every part of the human body, based on first-hand examination and his five years' experience as public prosector in the medical school at Padua. The five books deal with the bones and muscles, blood vessels, nerves, abdominal viscera, thoracic organs and the brain. Galen was not merely improved upon: he was superseded; and the history of anatomy is divided into two periods, pre-Vesalian and post-Vesalian. The Fabrica, a handsomely printed folio, is remarkable for its series of magnificent plates, which set new technical standards of anatomical illustrations, and indeed of book illustration in general. They have generally been ascribed to an artist of Titian's school, long (but no longer) thought to be Jan Stephen van Calcar (1499-c. 1550). Vesalius's was the most splendid and the most comprehensive of a large number of anatomical treatises of the sixteenth century. The second edition (1555) used the same plates (the woodblocks indeed survived in Germany until the Second World War) but contains minor variations in the text. No other work of the sixteenth century equals it" (Printing and the Mind of Man ). Adams V605.Choulant-Frank, pp. 181-182. Cushing, Vesalius, VI.A.-3. Garrison and Morton 377. NLM/Durling 4579. Norman Library 2139. Osler 568. Waller 9901. Wellcome 6562. Printing and the Mind of Man 71 (describing the 1543 first folio edition). HBS 68434. $105,000.
Published by (Munich: Bremer Press, 1934)., 1934
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1-50 unnumbered folios of 40 loose woodcut impressions. Large Folio (22 3/8 x 16 3/4 ). 40 sheets (21 3/4 x 16 1/4 ) printed on handmade, watermarked paper with deckle edges (plus 1 unprinted sheet). Presented in a light brown coarse-linen covered folio folder with beveled edges, cloth ties, and gilt-stamped titles front. The history and story of the Vesalius blocks which were cut using Vesalius original drawings and used in the printing of his monumental De humani corporis fabrica and his Epitome in 1543, is a story of epic proportions. The woodcuts were so massive and done with such precision and creativity, that for several hundred years they were widely attributed to the master Titian. Lost, refound, sold, lost again many times and finally rediscovered, for the final time, in 1932 by Samuel Lambert with the help of the renowned printer from the Bremer Press, Willy Wiegand, in the attic of the LMU Munich Library in a crate containing 230 blocks. Perhaps the most iconic and important block found was the title-page image of Vesalius conducting a dissection of a woman before a theater of 75 observing individuals believed to be the first time a public dissection was depicted. Wiegand and the Bremer Press were widely considered Europe s finest printer and press and were chosen to publish a contemporary atlas pulled from all of the Vesalius blocks. The difficulty of this undertaking was compounded by the fact that almost all of the blocks were warped from age and improper storage, and also by the extreme financial precarious state of Germany in general and the Press in particular. The brilliant success of the published works bespeaks deeply of the skill of the printer Wiegand; the Bremer Press impressions are widely considered to be the finest ever done from original Renaissance blocks. The subsequent fate of the Press and blocks is well known: the Press went bankrupt shortly after publication and the blocks were destroyed on 16 July 1944 by a bombing run by the U. S. Air Force which sadly hit the Munich Library were the blocks were stored in a supposedly bomb-proof basement. Bremer Press printed 615 numbered copies of the atlas and another 110 without text. In addition there were fifty unbound Tabula selecta of forty impressions presented in a linen covered folder. This is one of those folios. All 40 impressions are present and in bright, fine condition. Contained in the 40 impressions are the two title pages dissecting theater images, musculature, craniums, circulatory system, full male and female frontal nudes, et al. The folder is lacking the original ties and there is light soil but overall very bright. On the cover verso is a small but nice association bookplate from the library of G. S. T. Cavanagh, who was a noted Vesalius scholar and rare medical book librarian, and whose Sacrum Press published in 1996 The Panorama of Vesalius: A Lost Design from Titian s Studio. Undoubtedly most of the 50 sets have long since been broken up and the presence of a complete set is very scarce indeed.
Published by Joan. Anton. et Jacobus de Franciscus, Venice, 1604
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Vesalius, Andreas (1514-64). Anatomia: Addita nunc postremo etiam antiquorum anatome. Folio. [8, including engraved title by Francisco Valegio], 510, [46], [20]pp. Woodcut text illustrations by Joannes Criegher after the original Vesalian woodcuts. The last 20 pages consist of a separately titled appendix: Universa antiquorum anatome tam ossium, quam partium & externarum, & internarum ex Rufo Ephesio medico antiquissimo: Tribus tabellis explicate per Fabium Paulinum . . . Venice: apud Joan. Anton. et Iacobum de Franciscis, [1604]. 318 x 216 mm. Modern vellum. Margins of first and last signatures repaired, title a bit soiled, half-title (Cushing's *1) bound after engraved title (Cushing's *2), signature Xx bound after Yy. Upper margin of title inscribed "Inclita Nationis Polona Patavii Sumptibus," faint ownership inscription dated 1677 on verso title, partly effaced inscription ("Sumptibus nationis emptus") on dedication leaf. Very good./p> Fifth edition of the Fabrica. The typography of this edition closely follows that of the fourth edition, issued in 1568 by the Venetian printer Francesco Senense, father of Giovanni Antonio and Jacopo de Franceschi. This fifth edition also reprints the reduced-size woodblocks prepared by Joannes Criegher for the fourth edition. "The sons of Francesco Senense must have come into possession of Criegher's carefully engraved wood-blocks and when in 1604 their father's edition of 1568 presumably became sold out, they decided to issue another in precisely the same format . . . Fabricius of Acquapendente was by now professor of anatomy at Padua, and it was in all likelihood the student text he recommended. Additions to the book were a title-page handsomely engraved on copper and an additional series of anatomical tables with a new title-page and privilege giving the date of publication which was absent on the frontispiece" (Cushing, p. 93). Cushing, A Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, VI.A-5. .
Seller: Konstantinopel ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS., ENSCHEDE, Netherlands
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica. Venice: Franciscus Francisci and Johannes Criegher, 1568. 2 parts in one volume. Small folio, 295 x 210 . Large woodcut device on title, replete with woodcut anatomical illustrations, leaf 2d5 present with figures intact on one sheet and not cut-out and superimposed. Full limp vellum over boards, spine handsomely title in a contemporary calligraphic hand. Internally, first blank worn, some inner marginal detachment from textblock at p. 10/11 but holding strong, some occasional upper marginal damp-staining, occasional marginal worming, some occasional toning possibly re-cased in the original binding. Generally, a handsome and very presentable copy in the original binding. Ref: Adams V-606; Cushing VI.A-4; Harvard Italian 529; Osler 569. Provenance: approx. five separate early inscriptions to first blank indicating that this copy was used by various doctors at a near contemporary Italian medical and surgical institute. This is the fourth edition of the text and the third illustrated edition, published four years after the death of Vesalius. Cushing makes note that "The new woodcuts for the illustrations, however, were so well executed that the engraver might almost have passed for the same person who in Venice at the behest of Vesalius had cut the original blocks for the larger work. It must have been not only an expensive undertaking but a venturesome one." Indeed, in an unusual example of professional generosity, the printer gives equal credit on the title page to the Pomeranian engraver Johannes Criegher, without whose artistry the work would not have come to such a successful fruition. An esteemed edition, increasingly scarce in commerce, of a milestone work in human anatomy and the history of science.
Published by Johannes du Vivie, Johannes and Herman Verbeek, c.1725., Leyden, 1725
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Contemporary full dark-brown morocco / calf; spine raised with six (6) bands, gilt lettered title on burgundy morocco labels on two and three with remainder of compartments richly gilt with outer and central floral designs; upper and lower pasted and free endpapers marbled; all edges brown. , The 16th century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, Vesalius, is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, then part of the Habsburg Netherlands. He served as professor at the University of Padua (1537?1542) and later became imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V. This only edition with Vesalius?s complete works is a joint effort of the physician and scientist Hermann Boerhaave, editor, and the anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, who collaborated on these volumes, which include the following works: VOL I: ANDREAE VESALII // DE// CORPORIS HUMANI FABRICA// LIBRORUM VII. VOL II: I. Andreae Vesalii EPITOME de corporis Humani Fabrica librorum;II. Andreae Vesalii EPISTOLA ad Joachinum Roelands, RADICIS CHYNAE decocti;III. Gabrielis Falloppii OBSERVATIONES ANATOMICAE ad Petrum MannamIV. Andreae Vesalii EXAMEN Anatomicarum Observationum Gabrielis FalloppiiV. Gabrielis Cunei EXAMEN, Apologiae Francisci Putei pro Galeno Anatome. VI. Andreae Vesalii CHIRURGIAE MAGNAE LIB. VII. Concerning the present edition, Cushing states "This elaborate edition of Vesalius was put out without regard for expense. The topography is excellent and the plates skillfully engraved. The majority are copper plates but a few of the smaller are wood-blocks". A list of writings of Vesalius entitled ?Lijst der geschriften van Andreas Vesalius met aanteekenigen voorzien? by ?Dr. F. M. G. De Feyfer, te Geldermalsen?, published on www.ntvg.nl suggests a first issue of the 1725 edition. Ian Ehling, specialist of Fine Books and Manuscripts, NY, NY too, suggests ?that this is the first issue of the book? , Size : Folio (405 x 242mm). , Text in Latin. First impression of 1725 edition. Illustrated engraved title by J. Wandelaar, two red- black ink titles with engraved vignette by the above-named artist; engraved portrait of Vesalius in vol I; seventy-nine (79) full-page plates by J. Wandelaar; of these, ten (10) folding. Numerous in-text miniscule size to large size engravings. Ornamental initials, head and tailpieces. With an extra portrait of Hermannus Boerhave which is not called for in the first impression of this edition., Volume : Two volumes., References : Choulant-Frank p.183; Cushing VI. D- 8; Lindeboom, G.A.; Bibliographia Boerhaaviana (Leiden 1959) 554; Norman 2143., Ll: Vol I: bl.(2), half-title, illustrated engraved title, red-black title with engraved vignette; *1 - ********2 (w. authors, preface, list of Nomina & chapters), A1-3, portrait of Vesaliu, A4-, B1- Y4, Z1-2, Aa1-2, Bb1-Zz4, Aaa1-2, Ccc1-Rrr4, Sss1-2, Ttt1-2, Vvv1-Zzz4,Aaaa1-Ffff4, Gggg1; bl. (2). Vol II: Bl.(1), half-title, red-black title with engraved vignette; Gggg3-4, [unnumbered leaf], Hhhh1-Iiii4, Kkkk1-Nnnn2, Oooo1-Yyyy4, Zzzz1, [unnumbered leaf], Zzzz(a), Zzzz2-4, Aaaaa1-Zz zzz4, Aaaaaa1-Zzzzzz4, Aaaaaaa1-?Mmmmmmm4, Nnnnnnn1-2, Ooooooo1-Zzzzzzz2, Aaaaaaaa1-2, Bbbbbbbb1-2, bl.(2) A very good example, text and plates are generally clean & crisp.
Published by Leiden, J. du Vivie et J. & H. Verbeek,, 1725
Book First Edition
2 Bde. 21 Bll., 572 S.; 4 Bll.; S. 577 - 684, 1 Bl., S. 685 - 1156, 26 Bll. mit 2 wdh. Kupfer-Titelvignetten und 38 Textkupfern. 1 Kupfertitel und 82 (12 gefalt.) Kupfertafeln (es fehlt das Kupfer-Porträt). Erste vollständige Gesamtausgabe der Werke des Andreas Vesalius. - Eales I, 133. Osler 579. Waller 9917; Lindeboom, Boerhaave 554: "fine edition".Choulant-Frank 183: "Die Holzschnitte des Hauptwerkes und der Epitome in Kupfer sehr schön nachgestochen.durch Jan Wandelaar und zwar in der Größe der Originale". - Famous collected edition of Vesalius`s works, issued by Hermann Boerhaave and Bernhard S. Albinus, with copperplate reproductions of the Vesalian woodblocks by Jan Wandelaar. The editors added explanations of Vesalius`s sixteenth-century anatomical nomenclature for their eighteenth-century readers, and prefaced the first volume with a biography of Vesalius, which Lindeboom has tentatively attributed to Boerhaave. The first volume contains a reprint of the 1555 edition of the Fabrica. The second volume contains the Epitome, the China-root epistle, the spurious Chirurgia magna, Fallopius`s letter to Manna, Vesalius`s Examen of Fallopius, and Cuneus`s Examen (curiously, the editors did not include the venesection letter). - Die Kupfer sind von 1 bis 79 numeriert, die Nummer 76 existiert als 76a, 76b und 76c, eine Tafel ist ohne Nummer. - Es fehlt das Kupfer-Porträt. - Vortitel und Titel von Bd. 1 mit hinterlegtem Ausschnitt (ohne Textberührung). Kupfertitel mit kl. hinterlegtem Eckabriß (ohne Bildberührung). Leicht gebräunt unjd stellenw. etw. fleckig. Schönes breitrandiges Exemplar. *** *** Copyright: Matthaeus TRUPPE Buchhandlung & Antiquariat - Stubenberggasse 7 - A-8010 Graz - ++43 (0)316 - 829552 *** *** Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 9000 Gr.-Fol. Mod. HLdr. auf 5 Bünden mit Rückentitel und modernen Buntpapierbezügen ((etw. berieben).
Hirsch VI, 97 - Osler 579 - Waller 9917 - Blake 473 - Choulant-F. 183.- Erste vollständige Gesamtausgabe der Vesal'schen Schriften, schön gedruckt u. großzügig ausgestattet.- Enthält u.a. "De corporis humani fabrica", "Epitome", "Chirurgica magna" und die Arbeiten zu G. Falloppio.- Mit den schönen Holzschnitten Vesals (u.a. aus der Ausgabe von 1555) in genau nachgestochenen Kupfern von J. Wandelaer.- "In this edition, the woodcuts of the principal work and of the ,epitome' are very beautifully copied and engraved on copper in the original size. The remaining wood engravings are copied entirely, with all the additions, from the edition of 1555" (Choulant-F.).- Die Kupfer zeigen Skelette, Muskeln, Nervensystem, Schädel u.a., die Textkupfer meist mit einzelnen Organen.- Das Frontispiz zeigt Vesal in einer anatomischen Vorlesung.- Titel verso gestempelt, tls. etw. fleckig vereinzelte Lagen papierbedingt etw. gebräunt, einige Tafeln wasserrandig, 5 Bll. geringfügig verbunden, Ebde. leicht berieben, insges. schönes, vollständiges und dekorativ gebundenes Exemplar.# First and only collected edition of the printed works by "the father of human anatomy". "The first volume is taken up by Vesalius' landmark work "De humani corporis fabrica, 1543", a work that marked the beginnings of the period of rationalism in medicine.Vesalius showed, that man's structure is of one and the same materials as the bodies of lower animals. In his book the human body is fully described. On the title-page there is a picture of Vesalius, dissecting and lecturing while surrounded by students and others." (Sparrow: Milestones 192).- Partly slightly stained, occasional quires browned, some plates waterstained, bindings slightly rubbed, overall nice, complete and decorative bound copy.
Published by Jan Jansson., Amsterdam, 1642
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Contemporary vellum, spine with gilt morocco title. , 1642 edition with three added illustrations. Text in Latin.About the same time he published another version of his great work, entitled De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome ? more commonly known as the Epitome? The actual text of the Epitome was an abridged form of his work in the Fabrica? He dedicated it to Philip II of Spain, son of the Emperor., Size : Folio (400 x 254 mm). , Illustrated engraved title, engraved portrait of Vesali, forty (40) engraved plates with double page folding plate marked ?A? depicting Adam and Eve, and thirty-nine (39) full page engraved plates marked ?B?-?Z? and ?a?-?r?; of these ?B? and ?C? are printed back to back; moreover, three (3) added full and partial page in-text engravings; of these, the depiction of a baby at B1v, of the intestinal system with inner organs at B4v, the female reproductory organs at C5r; moreover, ornamental initial wood engravings at *2, **, ***, A1, D2; ornamental head and tail pieces at *2r and **4v. Some mis-paginations- they do not affect content which is complete. , Contemporary ink signature (sepia) of ?P. Du Trieu? inscribed on upper margin of title page; this possibly was the Dutch Professor of Philosophy, Philippe Du Trieu, author of ?Manuductio ad logicam, sive dialectica studiosae iuventuti ad logicam praeparan, References : BM 26: 92 (123); Cushing VI.D: 13; Krivatsy: 12322; Osler: 575; Waller: 9920. Notes: In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to publish the book De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body), a groundbreaking work of human an, Ll: Bl., 62, plus 40 plates, bl.; collation: title, *2, **1-4, ***1 with portrait of Vesalius, A1-C6, D2-D6, E1-H6, I1-2, 4(3mispaginated as 4), I4-6, K1-2. A very good example, text and plates are mostly clean and crisp.
Published by Apud Ioan. Anton. Et Jacobum de Franciscis, Venetiis, 1604
Seller: Libreria BACBUC - Studio bibliografico, Roma, RM, Italy
Un volume (22x33 cm) di (6)-510-(46)-(20) pagine, con le incisioni nel testo e a piena pagina di Joannes Criegher dagli originali vesaliani; pagina di titolo calcografica incisa da Francesco Valesio (rinforzata al retro); manca la pagina di occhiello (?1). L'ultima pagina è bianca. Alla p. 273-74 strappo restaurato al margine esterno con perdita di alcune lettere e delle due glosse. Piccolo foro di tarlo al margine bianco interno agli ultimi tre fogli della seconda parte. Per il resto esemplare molto bello, con poche fioriture, incisioni assai nette e fresche. -Legatura settecentesca in mezza pergamena , tassello di titolo (parzialmente eraso) al dorso, piatti con carta marmorizzata. -Quinta edizione, assai simile alla quarta del 1588 pubblicato da Francesco Sanese, veneziano padre degli stampatori di questo volume che però aggiungono per la prima volta l' Universa Antiquorum anatome tam ossium, quam partium & externarum, & internarum: ex Rufo Ephesio medico antiquissimo: tribus tabellis explicata per Fabium Paulinum. Quibus accessit quarta ex Sorani medici antiquissimi fragmento Graeco non antehac Latino facto. Di 19 pagine non numerate + una bianca. ""The sons of Francesco Senense must have come into possession of Criegher s carefully engraved wood-blocks and when in 1604 their father s edition of 1568 presumably became sold out, they decided to issue another in precisely the same format . . . Fabricius of Acquapendente was by now professor of anatomy at Padua, and it was in all likelihood the student text he recommended. Additions to the book were a title-page handsomely engraved on copper and an additional series of anatomical tables with a new title-page and privilege giving the date of publication which was absent on the frontispiece" (Cushing, p. 93). Cushing, A Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, VI.A-5.
Published by Anton Attenkhouer, c. 1783., Ingoldstad, Germany, 1783
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Edition : Second edition of Henrich Palmaz Leveling's German, Full recent panelled calf, triple gilt outer borders on speckled natural calf; central blind-stamped green panel; spine raised with five (5) bands; titles on two and four and compartments with central gilt ornament, dated., Text in German. Gothic Script.Second edition of Henrich Palmaz Leveling's German translation or Ingolstadt edition after the first of 1781.This second Ingolstadt edition of only 1500 exemplars features beyond twohundred (200) in-text engravings printed from Vesalius?s original woodblocks; the woodblocks were destroyed during the WWII bombings of Munich. Leveling not only translated this work but introduced updated information, often relying on the French Winslow as information source. , Size : Folio (396x274mm)., Illustrated woodcut title depicting the dissection lecture hall; printed title with engraved vignette of the portrait of Heinrich Palmatius Leveling, flanked on either side by the staff of Aesculapius and a skeleton respectively; headpieces at )(2, A1, Bb1, Xx1, Nnn, Yyy2r, Ccc1r; and tailpieces at Q1, Bb1, Uu1v, Eee2, Mmm2v, Yyy1v, Bbbb2v, Hhhh2v, **1v (or final leaf); ornamental Gothic initials on title and dedication; in-text partial page illustrations at A1, A2v, B1r (3), B2r, B2v, C1r (2), C1v (2), C2r, D1r, D1v, D2r (2), D2v(2), E1r, E2v (2), F2r (2), G1r, G2r (3)G2v (3), H1v(2), H2r (3) , H2v(2), I1r(3), I2r (4), I2v(3) K1v, K2r(5), L1v, L2r(6), L2v(3), N1v(2), O1v(2), Nn1r, Qq2r, Ss1v(2), Ss2v, Tt1r(8), Uu1r, Zz1v, (2), Aaa2v, Bbb2v (2), Ccc1v, Ccc2r, Ggg2v, Iii2v, Lll2v, Ooo1v, Ppp2r, Ppprv, Qqq1v, Qqq2v, Rrr1v,(2), Rrr2r (2), Sss1v, Xxx1v, Xxx2v (2), Yyy1r, Yyy2r, Zzz2r, Zzz2v, Aaaa1r (2), Aaaa2r, Aaaa2v (2); in-text half page illustrations, often consisting of multiple illustrations, at: A1v, A2v, F1v(9), H1v, H2r, I2v, K1v(, 5)L1r(2), M1v(2), M2r(4), M2v, O2r(15), Q1r, Rr1r, Rr1v, Rr2v, Ss1r, Ss2r(2), Tt2v, Xx1r, Zz2r, Fff1r, Nnn1r, Nnn2r, Ooo1r, Ppp2r, Qqq2r, Sss2r, Ttt1v, Uuu1r, Uuu2r, Xxx2r, Yyy2v, Cccc1r, Cccc2r, Cccc2v, Dddd1v, Dddd2r, Eeee1r, Eeee2r, Ffff1r, Gggg2r, Gggg2v, Hhhh1v; in-text full page illustrations at: F1r, N2r(13), P1r, P1v, P2r, Bb2r, Cc2r, Dd2r, Ee2r, Ff2r, Gg2v, Jj1(7)r, Jj2v, Kk2v, Ll2v, Mm2v, Nn2v, Oo2r, Pp2r, Xx2v, Zz2v, Ccc2v (folding), Eee2v, Fff1v, Iii2v, Kkk1r, Mmm12 (folding), Ooo2v; Moreover, two double-paged woodcuts [insert of Adam and Eve] at Iiii2v. , Volume : Seven books in one volum, Signature: ?H.Linder // 1875? on the margin of the upper free endpaper; Stamp on verso of final leaf: ?Henry Linder, //SCULPTOR, Studio ? // NEW-YORK.? Some of Linder?s work (1854-1910), renowned New York sculptor, is exhibited at the Smithsonian America, References : Choulant-Frank 185; Cushing VI A.15; Heirs of Hippocrates 1042; Osler 573; Waller 5752, Ll: Bl. (2), ill title, printed title with portrait vignette of Leveling, dedication (3), x1-xx2 (preface), x1-2 (index); A1-Z2, Aa1 (1st book) , Bb1-T2, U1 (2nd book), ; Xx1-Eee2 (3rd book), Fff1-Mmm2 (4th book), Nnn1-Yyy1 (5th book), Yyy2-Zzz2, Aaaa1-Bbbb2 (6th book), Cccc1-Hhhh2 (7th book) Iiii1-2, [2 folding plates- of Adam and Eve], Kkkk1-Oooo2, (summarische Abhandlung) *1-2, **1 (Index); bl.(2). A very good example, occasional minor browning.
Published by EDIDERUNT ACADEMIA MEDICINAE NOVA-EBORA CENSIS ET BIBLIOTHECA UNIVERSITATIS MONACENSIS, Monaco / Munchen, 1934
Seller: Calligrammes Libreria Antiquaria, Roma, Italy
Book
Coeva in mezza pelle. Condition: condizioni quasi ottime. Pregiatissima edizione gran folio stampata dai blocchi originali del XVI secolo, edizione numerata (es. n. 543/615) con 1 ritratto, 2 frontespizi calc., 281 incisioni in legno (su 82 fogli in carta forte) e 11 carte di riproduzioni fotografiche. Monumentale opera illustrata di Andrea Vesalio (1514-1564), tra le più note e apprezzate, rara edizione stampata a Monaco utilizzando i blocchi originali in legno intagliati a Venezia da Etienne Calcar, pupillo di Tiziano, e ritrovati casualmente nel 1932 a Monaco ma andati successivamente distrutti durante i bombardamenti della seconda guerra mondiale. Splendido esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione, nella legatura originale in mezza pelle con angoli. 1 vol., folio gr., mm. 560x395. [10] cc. (incl. ritr. e front.), 130 pp., [3] cc. Con piccolo difetto a un angolo del piatto post. ENG: Large folio. Original half pigskin. Portrait, 2 woodcut titles and 281 anatomical woodcuts on 82 leaves of heavy paper, printed from the original Vesalian woodblocks and 11 leaves of phot. repr. [10] ff (incl. portr. and woodcut tit.), 130 pp., [3] ff.
Published by Yushodo, Tokyo, 2015
ISBN 10: 4841932801ISBN 13: 9784841932805
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Association Member: ILAB
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Leather. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Limited edition. (100 sets). 2 vols. Fabrica: 43 x 29 cm. 357 ff. bound in full-leather; Epitome: 49 x 37 cm. 14 ff. housed in a solander box together with an explanatory note in Japanese/English.
Seller: Libreria Oreste Gozzini snc, Firenze, FI, Italy
Venetijs, apud Ioan. Anton. et Iacobum de Franciscis, [1604], due parti legate in un volume, in folio, legatura coeva in piena pergamena floscia (lievi mende al dorso) pp. [4], 510, [46] - carte [12]. Con frontespizio calcografico inciso da Francesco Valesio alla prima parte e centinaia di illustrazioni anatomiche in xilografia. Marca editoriale in xilografia sul frontespizio della seconda parte. La data di pubblicazione è desunta dalla data presente sul frontespizio della seconda parte. Le due carte recanti l'occhietto e l'avviso al lettore, di solito legate nei preliminari della prima parte ([pi greco]2 e [pi greco]3) sono legate dopo il frontespizio della seconda parte. La composizione del volume (parte prima) segue fedelmente quella della quarta edizione, edita nel 1568 a Venezia da Francesco Senese, padre di Giovanni Antonio e Iacopo di Francesco, che reimpiegarono anche le matrici lignee incise da Joannes Crieger per quella edizione. Esemplare scompleto: mancano, tutte nella prima parte, le carte X3, X4, Y2, Y5, Z1, Z2, Z5, Z6, FF3, FF4; foro con perdita di testo a c. X5. Alcune carte mal posizionate nel fascicolo K6. Mancanza all'angolo inferiore esterno (margine bianco) di c. X2. Gora all'angolo alto esterno del frontespizio inciso.
Published by Cornelius Danckertz, Amsterdam, 1646
Seller: de KunstBurg, Gent, Belgium
Bound in contemporary vellum. Amsterdam Cornelius Danckertz -1646, 1647. 2 werken in 1 volume. Folio (19 x 30 cm); pp [4], 196 [i.e. 198, laatste pagina fout gepagineerd ], [2]: 101, [3], met 42 kopergravures op volle paginas met anatomische voorstellingen naar Becerra, eerder gepubliceerd in Valverde's anatomie ( Rome , 1560 ), op hun beurt gecopieerd uit Vesalius' Fabrica. Tweede editie, de eerste was van Plantijn in 1568. Voor zijn eerste Latijnse uitgave in 1566, gebruikte Plantijn de herwerkte gravures van de Hollandse kunstenaars Pieter en Franz Huys. Tweede deel is het afzonderlijk gedrukte "Bedieninghe der Anatomien" door David van Mauden (zelfde uitgever, 1646 ), bedoeld als "onderrichtinghe om perfectelijck des menschen lichaem t'anatomizeren. ". Originele perkamanten band, enigzins bevuild en gebruind, enkele vlekken, en de gebruikelijke verouderingssporen, zoals men van een "anatomie" met deze leeftijd mag verwachten. Goed exemplaar -- 2 works bound in one volume , folio (size 19 x 30 cm), pagination: [4], 196 [i.e. 198, the last leaf mispaginated], [2]: 101, [3], with 42 fine engraved full page anatomomical plates after those of Becerra, published in Valverde's anatomy published at Rome in 1560, based upon Vesalius' Fabrica. Second Dutch edition ( first was the Plantin edition of 1568 ). For his first Latin edition of 1566, Plantin hired the Dutch artists Pieter and Franz Huys to re-engrave the earlier plates. Bound at the end, is the separately printed ' Bedieninghe Der Anatomien ' issued by the same publisher in 1646, by David van Mauden, and intended to supplement or update the edition of 1568. Bound in contemporary vellum, light browning or soiling, a few stains, the signs of use normal to an anatomy of this age, but a good sound copy overall 1 vol volumes. Light browning or soiling, a few stains. Good and sound copy.
Published by Anton Attenkhover, Ingolstadt, 1783
Seller: Antiquariat am St. Vith, Mönchengladbach, Germany
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Leder. Gr.-Folio. 26. Bl., 328 S. Leder mit Rückenschild. Einband etwas berieben, Rücken unten geringf. eingerissen, 1 Stelle des Titelblatt alt unterlegt, Papier teils geringf. gebräunt, gutes Exemplar. Mit gest. Porträt-Titelvignette, 2 gefalt. Holzschnitttafeln u. über 200 (davon 21 ganzs.) Holzschnittabb. Gedruckt unter Verwendung der originalen Holzstöcke der Fabrica und Epitome! Dabei: 4 ORIGINAL-BLÄTTER (8 Seiten) der Ausgabe VESALIUS: De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. BASEL, 1543. Seiten 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 295 und 296. Mit mit 2 figürlichen Initialen, 1 ganzs. Holzschnitt und 1 Textholzschnitt (etwas braunfleckig).
Published by Etienne-Denis Braillard, Geneva, 1964
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: fine. Limited. Text in French. Many fine extraordinary original engravings printed on heavy watermarked art paper, tissue guards. Deckled edges, folio, full tan polished calf, gilt armorial decoration on front cover and gilt pictures of anatomical studies along the spine, board slipcase. (Geneva: Etienne-Denis Braillard. 1964). Limited Edition. A fine copy but for one rubbed spot on the spine. One of only 215 numbered copies.
Publication Date: 1725
Seller: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Germany
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Cura Hermanni Boerhave & Bernhardi Siegfried Albini. - Leiden, J. du Vivie et J. & H. Verbeek, 1725, Kupferstichtafel 472 x 290 mm., I. Wandelaar fecit; untere linke Ecke, kleiner Einriss. "The central point of the composition is the portrait of Vesalius." "This beautiful copper-plate is a refined, almost over-refined, and fairly faithful, though beautified, copy of the woodcut original. There are, however, two important departures from that design, the one architectural, the other decorative. There are but five columns in this noble interior instead of seven. The modification simplifies the scene and gives greater depth, against which the figures gain considerably. This proof of artistic taste and knowledge may be applauded because no violence has been done to actual fact - no such building having ever existed. Other changes of detail, notably in the arrangement of draperies, improve the effect, and, after all, are nothing but what might be expected when a line-engraver of the eighteenth century, a pastmaster of his art, sets himself to reproduce a wood-engraving of two hundred years before. The barbers are once more bare-legged ; the man at the column is naked as before ; the goat - the innovation of 1555 - is suppressed ; and generally speaking, the facial expression throughout, softened and sweetened as it is, has markedly lost the extraordinary power and force that distinguish the original. An amusing touch is to be observed - Wandelaar's inability, after his visit to Italy and his examination of the ruins and splendid buildings, to resist the reintroduction of plants - a common habit - growing in the interstices of the stones on the left; and this in an interior, with roof in perfect condition. The engraver of the 1555 Title-page had more acumen. There has been an effort, though not a very successful one, to adhere to the head of Vesalius of the 1543 Title-page. That of 1555 is properly rejected. The beard is fair, almost to whiteness, short, and trimmed to a point. There is no hint here of the Muttermal or birth-mark, nor any suggestion, either, of intellectual vigour. This pleasant, well-groomed demonstrator seems possessed of less character than almost anyone else in the place. How much the weakening of expression and the variations and alterations to be seen all over the plate are due to the method of engraving - which doubtless is, in part at least, responsible - need not here be discussed. But we feel that such a scene called for a stronger hand and for a less amiable personality than Wandelaar's ; it was inevitable that the passion inherent in the scene should evaporate under the kindly grace of the Dutchman's graver. The large cartouche has been suppressed ; and the simple escutcheon, with its three animals still resembling greyhounds rather than weasels, is placed above the cornice, without any sort of ornamental accessory. The lower cartouche on the floor level is inscribed: A. VESALII OPERA OMNIA ANATOMICA CHIRVRGICA MDCCXXV / Lugduni Batavorum Apud I. du Vivie et J. & H. Verbeek. [And in the margin] J. Wandclaar fecit." M.H. Spielmann, The Iconography of Andreasn Vesalus, No. 2c.
Published by Leiden, J. Luchtmans., 1782
Folio. (43x26 cm). Vortitel, Titel, III S. Vorwort, 1 n.n. S. Tafelhinweis, 50 S., 1 S. Katalog, 1 S. Hinweis an den Buchbinder. Mit 27 Radierungen auf 24 Tafeln von Jan Wandelaar. Etwas späterer Halbpergamentband mit rotem goldgeprägtem Rückenschild. Blake 473. - Späte, von Sandifort im Text gekürzte Ausgabe mit den schönen Nachstichen von Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759) für die Gesamtausgabe der Schriften des Vesalius von 1725, herausgegeben von Boerhaave und Albinus. Obschon die Anatomie in Zwischenzeit wesentliche Fortschritte gemacht hatte und etliche Darstellungen von Vesalius überholt waren, war der Markt für eine Neuausgabe vorhanden. Weshalb Sandifort sich nicht um die 1781 neu gedruckten Originalplatten von Leveling bemühte, bleibt unbeantwortet. - Einband an den Kanten und Ecken bestossen. Pergamentbezug an der Rückenkante angebrochen. Vortitel- und Titelblatt mit schwachem Wasserrand, sonst sauberes, breitrandiges Exemplar. Sprache: lateinisch.
Published by Novato, 2007
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
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Published by Norman Publishing, San Francisco, 1999
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
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Published by Norman Publishing, San Francisco, 1998
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
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Published by Norman Publishing, Novato, 2009
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Lugduni Batavorum (Lyon), Luchtmans, van d. Eyk & Vijgh, 1782, Folio, III, 50 S. + 27 (auf 24) Tafeln, Halbledereinband der Zeit (Rücken berieben und mit kleinen Fehlstellen im Lederbezug, Deckel stark berieben und mit Fehlstellen im Bezug, innen sauber und schön erhalten) *Anatomie / Anatomische Tafeln über die Knochen und den Knochenbau des Menschen. (OBM).
Published by Jeremy Norman Co, 1998
ISBN 10: 0930405730ISBN 13: 9780930405731
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition.
Published by Jeremy Norman Co, 1998
ISBN 10: 0930405730ISBN 13: 9780930405731
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Posthumous portrait of Vesalius attributed to celebrated Swiss artist Tobias Stimmer, or, alternatively, to Stimmer's brother J. Christoph Stimmer or to Stimmer's pupil Christoph Maurer. Mounted and matted. 13 x 9cm. Fine apart from faint show-through from ms. on verso. With black letter caption reading "Andreas Vesalius/Medicus und Kais. Carls des fünfften Leibartz. m. 1564." This version of the portrait with German caption was published in Nikolaus Reusner's "Contrafacturbuch" (1587), the German version of his "Icones sive imagines virorum literis illustrium" (1587). See Spielmann, "Iconography of Andreas Vesalius," pp. 148-51.
Published by Jeremy Norman Co, 1998
ISBN 10: 0930405730ISBN 13: 9780930405731
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fine. Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear.
Published by Medicina Rara, [Stuttgart], 1970
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Fine Facsimile of this Vesalius' Classic Medical Anatomy] Limited luxury edition of only 500 copies. Near fine. Folio; 39 x 51 cm. In slip case. [23] pages : extra suite of 4 sheets with woodcut illustrations in accompanying folder. Facsimile reprint. Originally published : Basileae : Ex officina Ioannis Oporini, 1543. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Publication Date: 1975
Seller: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Germany
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Reprint, Niewendijk, de Forel bv, 1975. - Basel 1543, Folio, (1), 659, (1) pp., mit zahlreichen Abbildungen nach Holzschnitten, Halbledereinband im orig. Schuber; 15 pp., orig. Broschur; feines Expl. It is often a matter of friendly contention among medical historians as to which is the more important book, Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica" or Harvey's "De motu cordis". It cannot be denied that the "Fabrica" is the most famous anatomical work ever published, to this day one of the most beautiful in existence, and the milestone in all medical history which definitely showed a break from old traditions. It cannot be emphasized too often that this was an epochal book. The beautiful woodcuts, executed under the supervision of Vesalius by the artist Jan Stephan van Calcar (1499-1546?), student of Titian, are famous for their beauty, accuracy, and lavishness of detail and number. It was E.Jackschath of Tilsit who pointed out that the background scenes of the "muscle man" illustrations are, when collected into a continuum, a dioramic replica of the Paduan countryside of the time of Vesalius. The often-copied frontispiece dissecting scene, a portrait of Vesalius dissecting the arm, and the innumerable capital letters (depicting grave robbing, naked little boys urinating with abandon, operation for the stone, childbirth, cranial operations, etc.) are as fascinating a study as are the 171 anatomical plates. (.) This first edition of the "Fabrica" is the heart of any library of medical history." Heirs of Hippocrates No.172.
Published by Norman Publishing, 2008
ISBN 10: 0930405889ISBN 13: 9780930405885
Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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hardcover. Condition: New. New. book.