Fabricius Hieronymous (4 results)

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Facsimile Edition. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Spine faded, with chipping to ends. Previous owner inscription to fep. Sporadic foxing, sometimes heavy. Ex-lib copy, with stamps and inscriptions. 250mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). [ix], 99pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

4to, pp. 123, 32. Page 3 is misnumbered 1. Woodcut device on title, ornamental headpieces and initials. Twentieth century calf by Laurenchet. Some light spotting throughout but a very good copy. FIRST EDITION of what is perhaps the founding work of biomechanics, and one of the rarest and least known of Fabrizio?s works, published the year before his death. ?Fabricius of Aquapendente was one of the anatomists who brought valuable contributions to the physiology of movement. His study of the musculature of the extremities, and of the various phases of walking, jumping, and so on, and of the effort exerted in overcoming resistance, anticipate, as De Renzi has noted, the more famous studies of Borelli? (Castiglioni, p. 432). The work is divided into six chapters, of which the first, on walking in general, is by far the longest; it is followed by chapters on walking in birds and quadrupeds, on flying, swimming and crawling. The last three chapters comprise the second sequence of pagination. Fabrizio was a pupil of Falloppio at Padua and a teacher of Harvey, who also wrote a study of animal locomotion with the same title as the present work in 1627, but it remained unpublished until 1959. Fabrizio?s book was reissued in 1625, after his death, with other previously published works, but both forms are extremely rare; for example neither issue is in Krivatsy or the Wellcome catalogues (although Krivatsy lists an imperfect 1625 issue without De motu). It is not in Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, the central interest of which was biomechanics.

Folio, pp. (viii), 27. With 1 full-page engraving on p. 26, large woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and ornaments. Old dampstain in lower margin. 20th-century half calf. Bookplates of H.F. Norman MD and Richard J. Bennett. Second edition, but the first in folio. The De locutione examines the organs of speech, illustrated by a ?cut-away? view of the human ear and throat. It is the earliest separate work on the physiology of human speech, and deals with the physiological elements of articulation and voice production. The first edition was published in 1601 as a quarto and is extremely rare. The format was enlarged to folio for this edition probably to comply with other works being published by Fabrizio as his monumental Totius animalis fabricae theatrum, which was never completed. The present work was issued with his De formato foetu (1604), De venarum osteolis (1603) and De brutorum loquela (1603), which were also issued separately as Fabrizio makes clear in the dedication to the De venarum osteolis. All of these works are finely printed folios with beautiful engraved plates. The same sheets were reissued, without title-pages but with one additional tract, in 1625. Norman catalogue 749 (this copy).