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VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Opera omnia anatomica et chirurgica, edited by Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770). Leiden: Johannes du Vivie, Johannes and Herman Verbeek, 1725.
2 volumes, 2° (400 x 255mm). Half-title, titles to each part in red and black with engraved device, engraved portrait, 75 (of 82) full-page plates, of which 8 are folding, and c.38 text illustrations of human anatomy, all engraved by Jan Wandelaar, numerous woodcut text diagrams, ornamental initials and tailpieces. (Lacks 4G4 (Index leaf in vol. II), engraved frontis. and plates 26, 43, 74, 75, and 76a-c, neat tear in 2 folding plates and 4F4 without loss, browning, predominantly in vol. 2, some spotting, prominent in final two leaves, occasional dust-soiling, light dampstain at upper margins of vol. 2, more prominent at end, blank corner of 5I1 torn.) Contemporary calf (somewhat restored, rebacked and -cornered, light wear at extremities). Provenance: H. Sutherland Morris (his donation to the Royal Institution recorded on 22 December 1854).
ONLY COLLECTED EDITION OF VESALIUS' WORKS. Boerhaave, an influential teacher of medicine in 18th-century Leiden, was also interested in the synthesis of older and newer theories of medicine. In an effort to reconcile recent medical discoveries with those of previous centuries, he prepared new editions of a number of classic medical texts. Among these were the works of Vesalius, on which he worked in collaboration with his younger colleague, the anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. This collected edition includes, in volume I, the De humani corporis fabrica and in volume II, the Epitome, the China-root Letter, Vesalius' response to the Anatomical Observations of Gabriele Falloppio, and the Chirurgia magna, attributed to the great anatomist. Since the survival of the woodblocks was unknown to Boerhaave, the present edition is illustrated with engraved plates by Wandelaar copied exactly from the original woodcuts. The faithful rendering indicates their continued scientific value almost two centuries after their production. Cushing VI.D.-8; G.A. Lindeboom, Bibliographia Boerhaaviana (Leiden: 1959) 554; Norman 2143; Brunet V, 1151.
2 volumes, 2° (400 x 255mm). Half-title, titles to each part in red and black with engraved device, engraved portrait, 75 (of 82) full-page plates, of which 8 are folding, and c.38 text illustrations of human anatomy, all engraved by Jan Wandelaar, numerous woodcut text diagrams, ornamental initials and tailpieces. (Lacks 4G4 (Index leaf in vol. II), engraved frontis. and plates 26, 43, 74, 75, and 76a-c, neat tear in 2 folding plates and 4F4 without loss, browning, predominantly in vol. 2, some spotting, prominent in final two leaves, occasional dust-soiling, light dampstain at upper margins of vol. 2, more prominent at end, blank corner of 5I1 torn.) Contemporary calf (somewhat restored, rebacked and -cornered, light wear at extremities). Provenance: H. Sutherland Morris (his donation to the Royal Institution recorded on 22 December 1854).
ONLY COLLECTED EDITION OF VESALIUS' WORKS. Boerhaave, an influential teacher of medicine in 18th-century Leiden, was also interested in the synthesis of older and newer theories of medicine. In an effort to reconcile recent medical discoveries with those of previous centuries, he prepared new editions of a number of classic medical texts. Among these were the works of Vesalius, on which he worked in collaboration with his younger colleague, the anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. This collected edition includes, in volume I, the De humani corporis fabrica and in volume II, the Epitome, the China-root Letter, Vesalius' response to the Anatomical Observations of Gabriele Falloppio, and the Chirurgia magna, attributed to the great anatomist. Since the survival of the woodblocks was unknown to Boerhaave, the present edition is illustrated with engraved plates by Wandelaar copied exactly from the original woodcuts. The faithful rendering indicates their continued scientific value almost two centuries after their production. Cushing VI.D.-8; G.A. Lindeboom, Bibliographia Boerhaaviana (Leiden: 1959) 554; Norman 2143; Brunet V, 1151.
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