pdf - Roger Gaskell Rare Books

Binding: Nineteenth­century half roan, marbled endleaves, red edges.
First Paaw edition (Wrst edition, folio, Basle, 1543). Cushing VI D­19;
Krivatsy 12320; Manchester 1783; Waller 99121.
A reprint of the Epitome with commentary by Paaw and an extra chapter,
‘De externarum humani corporis sedium partiumve citra dissectionem
occurrentium appellationes’ (pp. 215–226).
12 engravings are printed in the text, fragments from the Fabrica; a 13th
engraving printed on a folding leaf normally inserted betweeen pp. 66 and 67
is lacking in this copy. An additional preliminary leaf in this copy contains a
poem by Menelaus Winshemius addressed to Paaw headed ‘In osteologiam
Clarissimi Doctissimique viri D. D. Petri Paawii’. It is signed **V and
presumably comes from another work.
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VESLING, Johann (1598–1649)
Syntagma anatomicum locis plurimis auctum, emendatum, novisque
iconibus diligenter exornatum. Secunda editio ab extrema auctoris
manu.
Padua: typis Pauli Frambotti Bibliopolae, 1651.
Folio: [✠] 4 2✠4 A–2N4 (blank 2N4), 152 leaves, pp. [16] 276 [12] (last
2 pages blank). Engraved titlepage on [✠]1r, engraved portrait of the
author on 2✠4v and 20 full­page engravings printed in the gatherings,
with blank versos. The pagination is omitted from these leaves,
including the last, which would be pp. 275/6, followed by 10 pages of
index on 2M3r–2N3v; 2N4 is blank.
238 x 182mm. Waterstains in margins and some dustsoiling.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards, red sprinkled edges. Worn,
joints starting to split.
Provenance: Early inscription on title [undeciphered] and an
annotation on p. 75 referring to de Graaf.
Second (or third?) authorised illustrated edition (Wrst edition, Frambotti,
Padua 1641; Wrst illustrated edition, Frambotti, Padua 1647). Krivatsy
12329; Wellcome V, p. 346; Choulant–Frank p. 243.
‘Vesling’s reputation rests on his excellent powers of observation... On 30
December 1632 Vesling was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery [at
Padua], and at the beginning of 1633 he returned from Egypt. Vesling proved
to be a very able teacher and enlivened his lectures with drawings that he
himself had prepared and that were later used in his Syntagma anatomicum.
This textbook, characterized by a concise style, went through many editions
and was translated into several languages. Of particular scientiWc value are his
descriptions and illustrations of the chyle vessels (lacteals) and his assertion
that four is the normal number of pulmonary veins emptying into the left
auricle of the heart. Further, he was the Wrst to see the ductus thoracicus, but
he did not mention the discovery until 1649, in a letter to Thomas Bartholin.’
(Erich Hintzsche, DSB, 14:12–13.)