Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rae) mens 106. VESALIUS, Andreas. Anatomia, (in German). Ein kurzer Auszug der beschreibung aller Glider menschlichen Leybs aus den biichern des Hochgeleerten Hern. D. Andree Vesalii von Briissel, sampt den Figuren und derselben auszlegung. Ins Teutsch gebracht von Jakob Bauman, 2 and 78 leaves. With 40 excellent copper-plates. Large coat of arms on title. Folio. Original German binding, vellum with gilt ornaments. Folio. Nuremberg, Jul. P. Fabricius, 1551. Frs. 1000.— Complete copies as ours are of greatest rarity. First German edition of Vesal’s Anatomy with the Gemini-copper-plates. Choul.-Frank, p. 194. ‘‘ Gemini’s forty copper engravings are copied and are provided with German descriptions; below the dedication, Jakob Bauman signs himself as the editor ’’. ‘‘ The copper engravings are neatly and carefully executed. Gemini, of Leeds, who calls himself Geminus Lysiensis, was himself an engraver and also a printer. The text contains only the description and therefore is rather abbreviated ’’ (Choulant-Frank). We can trace but only one copy of this precious edition in all the medical catalogues of the last years. The genital organs on the figures cancelled. The inner, upper margins of the last ten leaves of our copy show carefully repaired dampstains which affect only on last three leaves the text with loss of a very few words. Haxcept these insignificant flaws an unusually fine, large and spotless copy of this extremely rare work. 107. VESALIUS, Andreas. Anatomia. Addita nune postremo etiam (with separate title-page): Universa antiquorum anatome, tam ossium, quam partium et externarum, et internarum, ex Rufo Ephesio tribus_ ta- bellis explicata per Fabium Paulinum, ut et fragmentum Sorani de matrice. 4 leaves, 510 pp., 238 and 10 leaves. With fine historiated frontispiece by F. Valegio, about 20 full page woodcuts and nume- rous cuts of anatomical figures and of instruments by Johann Orie- gher (Krueger). Folio. Original boards. Venice, Joh. A. and Jacob. de Franciscis, 1604. Frs. 375.— Choulant-Frank, p. 182-183. This edition corresponds with the edition of 1568, but is really a new edition, enlarged by an appendix, which contains an extract from Rufus Ephesius and Soranus, compiled in four tables by Fabius Paulinus. The beautiful woodcuts, copies after those of the 1543 edition, are executed by Johann Criegher (Krueger) of Pommern. Our copy of this rare and fine edition shows uncut margins-, a very wnusual fact for books from these times. Some slight waterstains on a few leaves, but- an exceptionally fine copy in this rare condition. 108. (VESALIUS, A.). Bonavera, Domenico. Notomie di Titiano, de- decata all’ill. Sig. Franc. Ghisilieri. Title and seventeen magnificent full page copper plates engraved by Domenico Bonavera after Vesalius’ Tabulae. Folio. Wrappers. (Bologna, about 1670). Frs. 275.— Of great rarity. Choulant-Fr., p. 196. Feyfer, Vesalius, nr. 43. Nagler, Monogr. I, 1752. Haller II, 740. This work is without any text. The engraver and editor, Domenico Maria Bonavera or Bonaveri, was born in Bologna, about 1640 and was a pupil of Canuti. The illustrations are the well. known Vesalian-plates, which, at that time, were still attributed to Titian. In fact on the first skeleton-plate we
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