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HOLLAND: De Forel, Nieuwendijk, Netherlands, 1975. Fine facsimile of the 1543 ed. Folio. Half maroon morocco with marbled brds. & slip case; together with the accompanying booklet, Andreas Vesalius & His Opus Magnum by G. A. Lindeboom. Nieuwendijk, 1975. (Booklet lacks string and is now stapled - and is a little worn) Book looks barely opened. Minor wear to slipcase. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2024 £8) Packed weight 7000g. NOT AVAILABLE OVERSEAS. . Facsimile Edition. Hardback. Fine/No DW.
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem by VESALIUS, Andreas - 1568
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Venice: Franciscus Francesci and Johann Criegher, 1568. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (317 x 215 mm). [12], 510, [46] pp. Large woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut anatomical illustrations (some full-page), woodcut initials and head-pieces, leaf 2d5 (p.321) contains figures to be cut out and superimposed on the illustration on 2d3 is left intact in this copy. Signatures: *6 A-2Y6 Zz8. Bound in 17th century full vellum, spine with 5 raised bands faintly handlettered in second compartment, original endpapers (spine chipped at head with loss and with tear at foot, upper board somewhat bowed, minor rubbing, spotting and soiling). Crisp and clean internally throughout with some light browning in places; clean tear to f.K4 without loss, small wormhole near gutter of final 3 leaves. Provenance: partly torn bookseller's ticket to front pastedown (Antiquariat Lange & Springer, Berlin). A fine copy. ----
THIRD ILLUSTRATED EDITION and the fourth edition of the text. The illustrations here are reduced copies of the blocks cut for the first edition of 1543. "The copying was done from the Oporin edition of 1555 and includes eight additions made in 1555. The Basel woodcuts are attributed to Jan Stephan van Calcar, a pupil of Titian. Franceschi states in his dedication to Antonio Montecatini that Giovanni Chrieger cut these Venice copies" (Mortimer). "In 1564, the year of his death, Vesalius stopped in Venice on his way to the Holy Land and submitted his last book, a reply to Fallopius, to the printer Francesco Senense for publication. This same printer, four years later, in collaboration with a Pomeranian engraver, Johannes Criegher, whose name he generously coupled with his own as printer, ventured to print a complete text of the 1555 Fabrica in a smaller format and with all of the wood-blocks recut in smaller size. [. . .] The new woodcuts for the illustrations, however, were so well executed that the engraver might almost have passed for the same person who in Venice at the behest of Vesalius had cut the original blocks for the larger work. It must have been not only an expensive undertaking but a venturesome one [. . .] This edition was a foreign book, printed without licence, there being no regulation at the time (1568) to prevent this and it was a common enough practice" (Cushing, pp. 92-93).
References: Choulant-Frank, p.182; Cushing VI.A.-4; Osler 569; Waller 9902; Adams V-606; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 529; NLM/Durling 4580; Machiels V-228. - Visit our website to see more images!
THIRD ILLUSTRATED EDITION and the fourth edition of the text. The illustrations here are reduced copies of the blocks cut for the first edition of 1543. "The copying was done from the Oporin edition of 1555 and includes eight additions made in 1555. The Basel woodcuts are attributed to Jan Stephan van Calcar, a pupil of Titian. Franceschi states in his dedication to Antonio Montecatini that Giovanni Chrieger cut these Venice copies" (Mortimer). "In 1564, the year of his death, Vesalius stopped in Venice on his way to the Holy Land and submitted his last book, a reply to Fallopius, to the printer Francesco Senense for publication. This same printer, four years later, in collaboration with a Pomeranian engraver, Johannes Criegher, whose name he generously coupled with his own as printer, ventured to print a complete text of the 1555 Fabrica in a smaller format and with all of the wood-blocks recut in smaller size. [. . .] The new woodcuts for the illustrations, however, were so well executed that the engraver might almost have passed for the same person who in Venice at the behest of Vesalius had cut the original blocks for the larger work. It must have been not only an expensive undertaking but a venturesome one [. . .] This edition was a foreign book, printed without licence, there being no regulation at the time (1568) to prevent this and it was a common enough practice" (Cushing, pp. 92-93).
References: Choulant-Frank, p.182; Cushing VI.A.-4; Osler 569; Waller 9902; Adams V-606; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 529; NLM/Durling 4580; Machiels V-228. - Visit our website to see more images!
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- Publisher Franciscus Francesci and Johann Criegher
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- Date Published 1568
- Keywords Medicine, human anatomy
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Netherlands: De Forel, Nieuwendijk. Fine. 1975. Facsimile. Half leatherette, marbled boards, spine gilt. In matching slipcase ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 660 pages; Facsimile reproduction of the 1543 edition .
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Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, 1555. Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555]. Second and best folio edition (first published in 1543) of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century. With author's final additions and corrections as well as a renewed woodcut title-page and and initials. Large folio (16 x 10 7/8 inches; 407 x 275 mm). [12], 504, [1, folding table paginated "505"], [1, unpaginated leaf of figures to be superimposed], 507-824, [48] pp. Collation: a-z6 A-V6 X2 (including fold-out sheet) Y-Z6 aa6 bb8 (bb 6-7 is fold-out sheet) cc- zz6 Aa8 Bb-Ee6. Complete with woodcut title, woodcut portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations (including nineteen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, and seven-to twelve-line historiated woodcut initials. Full 17th century paneled calf, boards paneled in gilt. Rebacked with early spine laid- down. Spine stamped in gilt. Red Morocco…
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Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1555. Second edition. An exceptionally tall and fresh copy in a fine Wittenberg binding by Thomas Krüger. Second folio edition (third overall), of the work that not only revolutionised the understanding of anatomy, but can be said to mark the beginning of modern science. This is a fresh, exceptionally tall copy in a fine Wittenberg binding by Thomas Krüger. "The work of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels constitutes one of the greatest treasures of Western civilization and culture. His masterpiece, the Humani Corporis Fabrica ... established with startling suddenness the beginning of modern observational science and research. [The] author has come to be ranked with Hippocrates, Galen, Harvey and Lister among the great physicians and discoverers in the history of medicine. However, his book is not only one of the most remarkable known to science, it is one of the most noble and magnificent in the history of printing. In it, illustration, text and typography blend to achieve an…
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