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outlined and expounded in four dissertations, forming a treatise on the
dynamics of circulation that appeared as De’ fenomeni della circolazione...
(1773).’ (Claude E. Dolman, DSB 12, 556–7.)
175
SPIEGHEL, Adriaan van de (1578–1625); Giulio Cesare CASSERI
(c. 1552–1616); Daniel BuCRETIuS (d. 1631)
De humani corporis fabrica libri decem, Tabulis XCIIX aeri
incisis elegantissimis, nec ante hac visis exornati... Opus posthumum.
Daniel Bucretius Vratislaviensis Philos. et Medic. D. Jussu authoris in
lucem profert.
[Bound, as issued, with:]
Iulii Casserii... Tabulae anatomicae LXXIIX, omnes novae nec ante
hac visae. Daniel Bucretius... XX qu[a]e deerant supplevit et omnium
explicationes addidit.
Venice: [colophon on verso of last leaf of plates:] apud Evangelistam
Deuchinum, 1627.
Folio: ✠6 A–2V4 (blank 2V4); c4 (–c4), T1–92, (misnumbered
from 85 to the end), 446 leaves, pp. [12] 328 (i.e. 330, last
page misnumbered) [14] (last 2 pages blank); [6] and leaves
1–92 (misnumbered after 85). Woodcut headpieces and initials.
Engraved titles signed ‘Franc. Valesius Sculpsit. Odoratus
Fialetus’ on ✠1 and c1 (the same plate with the lettering altered);
92 full page engravings printed on the rectos of T1–92 with
letterpress descriptions on the versos, except the last which has
the colophon on the verso with woodcut printer’s device.
385 x 255. First titlepage soiled and worn, preliminaries a little
soiled and stained; plates slightly soiled and a few with marginal
repairs, one or two aVecting the engraved surface, abrasion to
surface of plate 85 with some loss.
Binding: Recent half calf, red edges from a former binding.
Provenance: Old inscription on title scored through
(undeciphered), signature ‘Davidson’ and annotations on endleaf
and Wnal blank (early nineteenth century?).
First edition. Another edition, with half­size copies of the plates,
was printed at Frankfurt in 1632. Krivatsy 11297, 2202; Choulant
pp. 226–228; Roberts and Tomlinson pp. 262–271.
One of the most attractive of the great anatomical atlases containing
the Wnest anatomical engravings of the seventeenth century, ‘a
vigorous and concrete contribution to the development of anatomical
illustration’ (DSB).
‘The illustrations for this ambitious project marked a signiWcant
departure from the Vesalian prototype that had dominated illustrated
anatomical texts throughout Europe during the last half of the
sixteenth century. Its illustrations were innovative and inventive,