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Johann Vesling. Line engraving.

Johannes Vesling, seated below a swag of surgical instruments, indicates illustrations of the heart in a book displayed by a skeletal corpse. Engraving 1666.

Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.

An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving of 1649 by Renier van Persyn after a design of 1626 by Crispijn de Passe the second.

Anatomia cui responsiones ad Riolanum anatomicum Parisiensem in ipsius animadversionibus contra Veslingium additae sunt / [Domenico de Marchetti].

Johann Vesling. Line engraving by J. Georgi, 1647.

Syntagma anatomicum. Locis plurimis actum, emendatum ... / [Johann Vesling].

The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.

A human skeleton, seen from the front and leaning on a spade, surrounded by illustrations of individual bones. Engraving, 1686.

Künstliche Zerlegung des gantzen menschlichen Leibes / Anfangs in Lateinischer Sprache beschrieben, und mit vielen schönen Figuren gezieret ... Itzo aber, allen Wund-Ärtzten zu sonderbaren höchst-erspriesslichen Nutzen, ins Teutsche übersetzt durch Gerhardum Blasium.

Syntagma anatomicum. Commentario atque appendice ex veterum, recentiorum, propriisque, observationibus, illustratum et auctum a Gerardo Leon. Blasio.

Additamenta ad Joh. Veslingii Syntagma anatomicum / Ex publicis praelectionibus D. Friderici Schraderi ...

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Vesling, Johann, 1598-1649

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Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.

Johannes Vesling, seated below a swag of surgical instruments, indicates illustrations of the heart in a book displayed by a skeletal corpse. Engraving 1666.

Künstliche Zerlegung des gantzen menschlichen Leibes / Anfangs in Lateinischer Sprache beschrieben, und mit vielen schönen Figuren gezieret ... Itzo aber, allen Wund-Ärtzten zu sonderbaren höchst-erspriesslichen Nutzen, ins Teutsche übersetzt durch Gerhardum Blasium.

Syntagma anatomicum. Commentario atque appendice ex veterum, recentiorum, propriisque, observationibus, illustratum et auctum a Gerardo Leon. Blasio.

Additamenta ad Joh. Veslingii Syntagma anatomicum / Ex publicis praelectionibus D. Friderici Schraderi ...