farfel_n02_122_110

(110) April '80
Paris - 1981 -$24,500
250 F = $60.25 Vesalius, Andreas (1514 - 1564).
De humeni corporis fabrica libri septem.
Basel : Johannes Oporinus , 1555 . August p.59 & 60
(12)824, (48)pp. 2nd folio edition (3rded.) [inserted]{unillust. ed. Lyon pocket 1552[end inserted] 824 pp.
49 lines to the page. (420 x 280 mm)
small initial letters - fit 7 lines of type
- star & crescent watermark - 2.5 cm chain lines.
Liber I (bIa - t2b) 41 chapters on bones & cartilages.
(pp 1 - 208 ) the last chapter on instruments for dissection
having been moved up from Book II.
- record of 25 copies in U.S. & nmany abroad
[crossed out] [illegible] [end crossed out]
Osler 568
Wellcome I , 6562
Cushing , Vesalius 5,9 off
PMM 75
- printed in large size Garamond type.
J. Opoimus dist inguished himself - his excellent editions of
Greek & Latin classics & the writings of Luther. His most
important book was Vesalius' great contemporary anatomy
pronted in 1543 - an immense vol. of 667 pages
set in an even roman Type , - neat running heads &
page numbers & marginal notes in a small fluent italic.
Cushing VI. A. - 3 Garrison & Morton 377
- Harvey Cushing - bio - bibliography of A. Vesalius (QM 16 V5C8)
1st edition (1543) June, 42 (43.4) x 29 (29.2) cm - 57 lines
no watermarks , paper soft & thin. Initial letters [Q]
- 36 mm (height) x 34 mm (width)
This title was given by Vesalius because he considered
"the human body a perfect fabric conceived by the creator
& achieved by the supreme artist , Nature."
Vesalius attacked the scolastic doctrines from the time of
Galen to his own teacher Sylvius.
Claudius Galenus 2nd C A.D. Opens 2 vol. Venice , P. Puncius 1490.
Founder of experimental physiology, whose writings influenced medicine for
1500 years . Galen introduced comparative anatomy & the use of the
pulse in Dx.