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London, Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1925. . 8vo; pp. xii, 211; frontispiece; 22 plates, 117 b/w illustrations; original green cloth, lettered gilt on spine; pages foxed, page edges flecked, cloth faded, a good copy.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Hardcover. Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 209 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth with dulled type face on the spine. PLEASE NOTE: This copy has uncut pages.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co , 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG for age/No Jacket. Green cloth with gilt sp. lettering, clean and unworn but slight fading to spine region. Full opening double plates of Vesalius's Humani corporis fabrica t.p. on left and decorative t.p. f current work on right + printed t.p. + xii + 209 + (1, author's pub. list), 20 plates ex-pagination in main text + figs 100-117 from Vesalius as 'A Vesalian Atlas', 99 figs in main tex; clean and unmarked bar small brown splash mark top edge fr. end-paper which is also very fainlty tanned, main interest however is the engraved heraldic book-plate of Sir Cecil Wakeley Bt. 9ect) to front pastedown. Wakeley, 1872 - 1979 was a very eminent surgeon who served in the Royal Navy during the Great War, he was also, oddly, an ardent creationist. He was made a baronet in 1952, so this plate suggest he was not the book's first owner. 14,5 cm x 22 cm