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LIBRORUM // ANDREAE VESALII // BRUXELLENSIS // DE HUMANI CORPO= // RIS FABRICA // EPITOME: // Cum Annotationibus // NICOLAI FONTANI // Amstelredamensis // Medici. // Amstelodami, // Apud Ioannem Ianssonium. // MDC XLII.
Published by Jan Jansson., Amsterdam, 1642
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
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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.
