BARTHOLINUS, THOMAS. 1616-1680.


Institutiones Anatomicae. Leiden: F, Hack, 1645. 8vo (185 x 112 mm). Engraved title page, portrait frontispiece, 6 folding engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations in text, some full page. Contemporary calf, gilt-ruled, gilt titles on spine. Wear to covers, slightly soiled.SECOND EDITION. This work, a revision of the anatomical treatise of the author's father, Caspar, "included the first depiction of the fissure of Sylvius, the lateral cerebral fissure, and the only part of the cerebral hemispheres to be given a name between 1641 and the 19th century" (Garrison-Morton 6964). Krivatsy 736; Wellcome II, p 106.