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M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
339 * CHOULANT, Johann Ludwig. Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen
Abbildung nach ihrer Beziehung auf anatomische Wissenschaft und bildende
Kunst, Leipzig, R. Weigel, 1852, 8 ll., xvi, 203 pp., ill. [HC80]
Chapter Andreas Vesalius pp. 168-199, ill.; multiple remarks else.
English translation and annotation by Frank MORTIMER: History and bibliography of
anatomic illustration, Chicago, 1920.
Reprint (English): Cambridge (MA), Maurizio Martino, [2000], 435 pp., ill. Only 300
copies.
340 * CHOULANT, Johann Ludwig. Graphische Incunabeln für Natur-geschichte und
Medizin, München, Verlag der Münchner Drucke, 1924, 168 pp.
With an illustrated history and biography of the first medical and scientific prints of the
XVth and XVIth century. For Vesalius: p. 143-145. Re-issue of the edition of Leipzig,
Rudolph Weigel, 1858.
340.90 * CHRISTIE’S (ed.). The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Part I:
The Middle Ages and The Renaissance, Wednesday, 18 March 1998, New York,
Christie’s, 1998, 301 pp., ill.
Auction catalogue. A Paraphrasis (Cushing I.-3) lot 176 on p. 174, hand coloured portrait
of Vesalius from lot 213 on p. [2], of title-page Fabrica p. 203, of binding p. 209, of first
skeleton p. 211, of first muscle man p. 213, and of initial letter p. 214. Lot 136 is a copy of
Montana de Monserrate’s Libro de la Anothomia del hombre (1551), 211 Vesalius’s edition
of Guinterius’s Institutionum anatomicarum (1538) with manuscript notes by Vesalius, 212
Vesalius’s Venesection epistle (1539), 213 his Fabrica (1543) hand coloured and presumed
to be the dedication copy of Charles V, 214 his China root epistle (1546), 215 his Fabrica
(1552, Jean de Tournes), 216 his Fabrica (1555) and 217 his Opera omnia (1725, H.
Boerhaave).
340.91 * CHRISTIE’S (ed.). Printing and the Mind of Man Wednesday, 20 October 1999,
London, Christie’s, 1999, 182 pp., ill.
Auction catalogue. Lot 18 is a Fabrica 1555.
340.95 * CHRISTIE’S (ed.). European Furniture and Decorative Objects, Wednesday, 24
April 2002, London, Christie’s, 2002, 114 pp., ill.
Auction catalogue. Lot 131 is a bronze statuette of Vesalius by Isdidore de Rudder.
341 * CHRISTIE’S (ed.). Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana,
Tuesday 14 June 2005, New York, Christie’s, 2005, 301 pp., ill.
Auction catalogue. Lot 161 is a copy of Vesalius’s Fabrica (1555) and 162 of the Icones
Anatomicae (Munich, 1934).
341.05 * CHRISTIE’S (ed.). Anatomy as Art: The Dean Edell Collection, Friday 5 October
2007, New York, Christie’s, 2007, 248 pp., ill.
Auction catalogue. Lot 10 is the edition of the Tabulae anatomicae sex for Sir William
Stirling Maxwell, lot 11 is a copy of Vesalius’s Fabrica (1543) and 12 of the edition of
Leveling (1783) with the use of the original woodblocks (Ingolstadt, 1789).
341.30 * CHUAQUI, Benedicto. ‘El prefacio de Vesalio: Reseña biográfica y comentarios’ in
Alejandro GOIC G., Ricardo CRUZ-COKE M. (eds), Quintas Jornadas de Historia
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