VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564.


Icones anatomicae. Munich: The Bremer Press for the New York Academy of Medicine and the University of Munich Library, 1934 [i.e., 1935]. Large folio (548 x 385 mm). Original publisher's half pigskin and boards by Frieda Thiersch, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered, publisher's plane dust-jacket and board folding case. Splitting to case. LIMITED EDITION, number 104 of 615 copies. This copy includes the "Characterum Indices", letterpress transcriptions of Vesalius's explanatory notes keyed to the woodcuts, printed from 227 of the original woodblocks used for Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica and his Epitome which were tragically destroyed during World War II. The impressions in this modern fine press edition are darker and clearer than the original 1543 and 1555 editions of the Fabrica. Laid in is the 4 page prospectus for the publication issued by McFarlane, Warde, McFarlane Publishers (worn) and the "To the Reader" leaf. A pristine copy. WITH: Samuel W. Lambert, Willy Wiegand, and William M. Ivins, Jr. Three Vesalian essays to accompany the icones anatomicae of 1934. New York 1952, Archibald Malloch's copy with a letter to him from William Ivins concerning the book tipped in. Cushing VI.A.-16; Norman 2145.