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Verlag: Coleccion "Medicinae Historia", Brussels, 1970
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: vg. Reprint. Elephant folio. 200 leaves. Original full red leather with elaborate gold tooling on boards and spine. Exquisite edition being a facsimile of a 1576 manuscript by Juan de Valverde. This early anatomic work is profusely illustrated with numerous illustrations of the human body, organs and skeleton. Corners and head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Tiny closed tear at head of spine. Text in Spanish. Binding in overall good to very good, interior in fine condition. About the author: Juan Valverde de Amusco (or "de Hamusco") (c. 1525-?) was born in the Kingdom of Leon in what is now Spain in about the year 1525 and studied medicine in Padua and Rome under Realdo Columbo and Bartolomeo Eustachi. He published several works on anatomy, including De animi et corporis sanitate tuenda libellus (Paris, 1552). Valverde's most famous work was Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano, first published in Rome, 1556. All but four of its 42 engraved copperplate illustrations were taken almost directly from Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius bitterly commented on Valverde's plagiarism, accusing him of having performed very few dissections himself. Occasionally, however, Valverde corrected Vesalius' images, as in his depictions of the muscles of the eyes, nose, and larynx. One of Valverde's most striking original plates is that of a muscle figure holding his own skin in one hand and a knife in the other, which has been likened to Saint Bartholomew in The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) of the Sistine Chapel. The original illustrations were most likely drawn by Gaspar Becerra (1520-1570), a contemporary of Michelangelo, and the copperplate engravings are thought to have been carried out by Nicolas Beatrizet (1507?-1570?), whose initials "NB" appear on several of the plates.
Verlag: Rome, Antonio Salamanca & Antonio Lafreri, 1560., 1560
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
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Folio (208 x 290 mm). (17), 154 ff. With engr. title page and 42 full-page engravings in the text. Contemp. vellum in later slipcase. First Italian edition, second printing with the year on the title page changed from 1559 to 1560. Valverde's famous anatomy boasts beautiful engravings, mainly based on Vesalius, but with many improvements. "Setting of type unchanged, but many of the plates have been re-engraved (and reversed)" (Cushing). - Binding rubbed and wormed. Several carefully restored tears to t. p.; several leaves professionally restored (plate on leaf 96 covered with paper slip), some brownstaining. - Cushing, Vesalius VI.D.-36. Durling 4532. Haller I, 215. Hirsch/Hübotter I, 123. Mortimer 513. Waller 9800.