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Andreae Vesalii invicissimi Caroli V. imperatoris medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica / cura Hermanni Boerhaave ... & Bernhardi Siegfried Albini ... : tomus primus [-secundus]

Catalog Data

Author:
Vesalius, Andreas 1514-1564  Search this
Editor:
Boerhaave, Herman 1668-1738  Search this
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried 1697-1770  Search this
Borgarucci, Prospero 1540-  Search this
Engraver:
Wandelaar, Jan 1690 or 1692-1759  Search this
Artist:
Calcar, Jan Stephan van 1499-1546?  Search this
Author:
Cuneo, Gabriele active 16th century Apologiae Francisci Putei pro Galeno in anatome, examen  Search this
Falloppio, Gabriele 1523-1562 Observationes anatomicae  Search this
Bookseller:
Vivié, Johannes du active 1678-1728  Search this
J. et H. Verbeek  Search this
Former owner:
Mead, James G. DSI  Search this
Subject:
Pozzo, Francesco del approximately 1520-1564  Search this
Physical description:
2 volumes, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 47 cm (folio)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Atlases
Early works
Date:
1725
MDCCXXV [1725]
Notes:
Title pages in red and black.
Title pages engraved vignette with: "Fidelissimi Magistri Mortui."
Imprint information in brackets.
Includes half-titles.
Includes decorated half-title page in vol. 1.
Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces; printed marginal notes in Greek and Latin; some engravings in text.
The majority of the figures are copperplates re-engraved by J. Wandelaar after Calcar.
Text in Latin with some Greek references.
Pagination and signatures are continuous throughout both volumes.
The Chirurgia magna, edited by Borgarucci and published under the name of Vesalius, is generally regarded as spurious, but may have been compiled from the class notes of Vesalius' pupils--Cf. Harvey Cushing. A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius. 1943, p. 216-217.
Includes index in three columns in vol. 2.
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Heirs of Hippocrates (3rd ed.), 287
Cushing, Harvey, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, VI. D-8
SCDIRB copy (39088016470098, 39088016470130) has bookplate: James Glen Mead.
SCDIRB copy the gift of James Glen Mead.
SCDIRB copy with number '8585' stamped on 3rd leaf of vol. 1.
SCDIRB copy bound in modern Cambridge-style binding, title in gilt within red leather spine label, marbled edges.
Contents:
Contents -- vol. 1. De humani corporis fabrica -- vol. 2. De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome -- Epistola, rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti ... pertractans -- Gabrielis Falloppii ... Observationes anatomicae -- Anatomicarum Gabrielis Falloppii observationum examen -- Gabrielis Cunei ... Apologiae Francisci Putei pro Galeno in anatome, examen -- Chirurgia magna ... ab ... Prospero Borgarutio, recognita, emendata, ac in lucem edita
Topic:
Surgery  Search this
Human anatomy  Search this
Skeleton  Search this
Call number:
QM21 .V49 1725
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1097587