VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564.


Anatomia. [De humani corporis fabrica.] Venice: Giovanni Antonio and Giacomo de Franceschis, 1604. 2 parts in one volume. Small folio (312 x 220 mm). Engraved title with Vesalius performing a dissection within elaborate architectural border incorporating skeletons and small dissection scenes by Francesco Valegio, large woodcut device on second title, numerous woodcut anatomical illustrations, woodcut initials and head-pieces, half-title, leaf 2d5 (p321) contains figures to be cut out and superimposed on the illustration on 2d3 is left intact in this copy. Contemporary vellum over paste-boards, contemporary ink title on lower margins, wear to spine ends. Some minor mostly marginal browning and staining, L2/5 possible supplied from another copy. Fourth illustrated (fifth edition of the text) of De humani corporis fabrica, closely following the 1568 Francesco de' Franceschis edition and using the same woodcut blocks by Johannes Criegher. The volume was probably published as a textbook for students of Fabrizio di Acquapendente, professor of anatomy at Padua. See preceding lot for a note on the illustrations. The last 20 pages consist of a separately titled appendix Universa antiquorum anatome tam ossium ... Cushing VI.A.-5; Heirs of Hippocrates 285; Krivatsy 12318; See Mortimer/Harvard Italian 529; Waller 9903.