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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    35. 36. Of. 38. TO ees DOLCE, L. Dialogo nel qual si ragiona del modo di accrescere et conservar la memoria. 120 leaves. With numerous full page woodcuts. Printer’s device. Small 8vo. Vellum. Venice, Sessa, 1575. Frs. 30.—— Another edition of this curious work with the same interesting illustra- tions. — A few leaves browned. Good copy. LE DRAN, H. Observations de chirurgie. 2 vols. 8vo. Old ealf. Paris, 1731. Frs. 9.— ESTIENNE (STEPHANUS), Charles. De dissectione partium cor- poris humani libri tres. Una cum figuris et incisionum declaratio- nibus a Stephano Riverio compositis. 12 leaves, 375 pp. With 62 excellent full-page anatomical woodcuts, many smaller woodcuts in the text and initial letters on criblé ground; printer’s device. Folio. Old calf (slightly worn, corners damaged). Paris, Simon de Colines, 1545. Frs. 775.— Editio princeps. Choulant-Frank, p. 152-155. De Lint, p. 41. “This book is one of our best sources for estimating the state of ana- tomy immediately preceding Vesalius’’ (Singer). ‘The most fully ilustrated of the pre-Vesalian anatomies is that of Charles Estienne (1503-64). Part of this work, which appeared in 1545, was in preparation as early as 1530. The illustrations are the earliest, except those of Leonardo, in which whole systems venous, arterial, or nervous are shown. Estienne’s best department is, perhaps, that of arthrology and he has good descriptions, of the clavicular joints, of the temporo-maxilliary articulation and of the joints and ligaments of the spine. He was the first to trace blood- vessels into the substance of bone. His figures display the vermiform appen- dix. He was the first to remark upon the valves in the veines. He gives much attention to the form of the muscles, drawn separated from their attachments. Most remarkable of his observations is that of the canal in the spinal cord. He lays much emphasis on glands. He injected the blood-vessels with air. He has a fairly correct figure of the spleen. The book is one of our best sources for estimating the state of anatomy immediately preceding Vesalius ’’ (Singer). Very small blank piece of the title-page cut off and substituted by old paper by an early hand. A few insignificant wormholes through the inner mar- gins of a very few leaves, but an exceptionally fine and spotless copy with the woodcuts in finest impressions. — See reproduction p. 10. EUSTACHI-PETRIOLI, Gaetano. I: Riflessioni e compimento delle riflessioni anatomiche sulle note di G. M. Lancisi, fatte sopra le tavole dell’ Eustachio. Colla vita dell’ Eustachio. 5 leaves, 8, 10 and 27 pp., 2 leaves, 200 pp., one leaf (title) between pp. 98 and 99. With large engraved vignetie on title (dissection) and full-page portrait of Petrioli. — IL: Corso anatomico o sia universal commento nelle tavole di Eustachio. Dissertatione della formatione del cuore, cervello etc. 6 leaves, 254 pp., 2 leaves. With vignette. —- III. Le otto tavole anatomiche con cinquanta figure in folio. 7 leaves, 80 pp., 2 leaves. With vignette and 49 full-page copper- plates and the same portrait of Petrioli. Two vols. Folio. Half linen. Rome, 1740, 1741, 1742-48 and 1750. Frs. 125.— Rare and absolutely complete collection of the three chief works by Petrioli on the famous tables of Eustachi.
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