TABULAE ANATOMICAE clarissimi Viri Bartholomaei Eustachii .. Praefatione ac notis illustravit Joh. Maria Lancisius ..
PlacePub
Rome
Publisher
Rochus Bernabo at the expense of Laurentii & Thomae Pagliarini
Date
1728
Illustrations
Copperplates (47 full-page numbered but with pl 35 & 37 replaced by good facsimiles) + Nice large copperplate of a public dissection on TP + 50 large woodcut initials with country & hunting scenes & cupids etc.
Description
Folio (378x251mm) Newer calf with 5 raised bands spine compartments gilt, gilt rules, contrasting black label with gilt titling. Titlepage in red & black XXVIII +79pp +(ix=index & (1 pp) of publisher's catalogue + 47 leaves of plates ex collation but numbered in the plate 1-47. a4 mistakenly bound after b4. Bookplate of Dr.F.A. Sondervorst on marbled EPs. A clean wide margined copy, no tears, very unobtrusive pale foxing to a very few pages. The only restorations are the rehinging of some pages at the gutter. A few pages show marginal dusting and a very few with marginal damp marks but never affecting the printed area except in the index. Pl.20 has minor offsetting from the facing text page. As usual the unnumbered page meant to be cut out and used to rule the scale is not present. The paper is of fine thick quality, the impressions are clear and dark, and the binding of a plain but sympathetic quality (see Garrison & Morton 391, Wellcome II 536, Heirs of Hippocrates 201, Grolier One Hundred 21. Lilly Notable Medical Books 41, Choulant/Frank 200-204, Herrlinger 132-133, Norman Catalogue 740). *The plates were probably engraved in 1552 by Eustachius in collaboration with Agostino de Musis but only the first few were published in his lifetime. They lay forgotten and lost until rediscovered by Giovanni Maria Lancisi but without any accompanying text. Lancisi wrote a text and had them published at Rome in 1714. The accuracy of the design & detail of these plates greatly surpass the woodcut drawings of Vesalius as Eustachius used copperplates which allowed for greater precision [esp. #18 representing the nervous system.] The progress of anatomy might have been accelerated by at least a century, had these plates appeared in the 16th century. Eustachius was considered to have been the most scientific anatomist of his time and unlike Vesalius his plates show a composit of anatomical types based on the study of many cadavers where as Vesalius showed the anatomy of one body. Unique to Eustachius' anatomy was the marginal graduated scale which gave the key to the explanatory text. He also juxtaposed anterior and posterior views. Artistically rather different to contemporary atlases they are accurate in their proportions, advanced in the anatomical knowledge especially of the sympathetic nervous system, relationship of vessels to muscles etc. A splendid anatomical atlas with few equals.
Booknumber
V67124
Price
Price: GBP 1200.00 or USD 1776.00
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