Vesaliana

M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
Short mention on p. 10-11 of the importance of Vesalius as illustrated by the fact that his
name was given to certain anatomical structures.
Translated from the fourth German edition by Charles E. Hackley.
Re-issued for ‘the classics of medicine library’ by Gryphon editions, New York, 1987.
175 BIRTALAN, Gyözö. ‘Vesalius Fabrica-jának elöszava’ [The preface of Vesalius’s
Fabrica] in Orvosi hetilap, 1995, 136 (no. 18): 950-952. [WL]
In Hungarian.
176 BISHOP, Louis Faugères, John NEILSON, Jr. History of Cardiology, New York,
Medical Life Press, 1927, 71 pp. [ILAB]
With portrait of Vesalius.
176.50 * B[ITARD], A[dolphe] (ed.). ‘André Vésale et les dissections anatomiques’ in La
Science Populaire, 1880, 1, 242-244.
Illustration of Vesalius at Montfaucon by Meunier on frontpage. Use of the french term
anthropotomie for human dissection. Discussion of amphithéatre de Clamart in Paris.
177 BITTNER, Chr. ‘André Vésale’ in Tribune médicale, juin 1954. [ZKT]
178 * BIZARUS, Petrus. Historia della guerra fatta in Ungheria dall’invittissimo
Imperatore de Christiani, contra quello de Turchi: con la narratione di tutte quelle
cose che sono avvenute in Europa, dall’anno 1564, insino all’anno 1568, Lyon,
Guliel. Rovillio, 1568. [HC454]
The account of Vesalius’s death (pp. 178-180) differs considerably in some details from the
Latin edition (see no. 179).
179 * BIZARUS, Petrus. Pannonicum bellum, sub Maximiliano II. Rom. et Solymano
Turcar. imperatoribus gestum: Cumque Arcis Sigethi expugnatione ...
descriptum... Una, cum Epitome illarum rerum, quae in Europa insignoriores
gestae sunt: et praesertim de Belgarum motibus, ab anno LXIIII, usque ad LXXIII
[The Hungarian war under the emperors Maximillian II and Soleyman...], Basileae,
per Sebastianum Henricpetri [1573], 27 ll., 322 pp., 1 l. [HC38]
On p. 284-285 is supposedly the first printed account of the tragic death of Vesalius.
Compare with no. 637.
179.90 * BLACKWELL. Blackwell Rare Books. Recent Acquisitions & Others, Catalogue
B163, Oxford, Blackwell, nd, 96 pp., ill.
See lot 208 p. 70 for a description of a copy of Vesalius’s Opera omnia by Boerhaave and
Albinus (Leyde, Du Vivie & Verbeek, 1725).
180 * BLAIR CHEWNING, Emily, Dana LEVY. ‘Andreas Vesalius’ in IDEM, Anatomy
Illustrated, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1979, pp. 28-33, ill.
With detail from a Diego Rivera mural of Andreas Vesalius.
180.60 BLAKE, Vernon. The Art and Craft of Drawing, Dover, Dover Publications, 1995,
414 pp, ill.
Of the 150 illustrations 28 are by Vesalius.
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