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verses, by G. Dunn, is bound with the prelims. In the collation in the ESTC
collation (from the Folger copy) it is bound after B5 and designated p1; in
the EEBO images (from the Glasgow university Library copy) it is bound
after A4. The Folger collation records signature G as an 8­leaf gathering,
even though G3 is removed to the prelims, counting the letterpress layout of
the surgeon’s chest as part of the gathering. Since it is printed on a full sheet
(and therefore cannot be conjugate with any other leaf in the gathering) and
has the legend ‘Place this Chest, betwixt Fol. 26 and 27’ it seems best to treat
is as an insert as I have done.
Printing was divided between three shops: Young printed the Wrst set of
signatures, apparently Legat printed the second, and Purslowe the third
(STC). The large gaps in pagination are no doubt caused by over cautious
casting­oV.
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ZEIDLER, Sebastian Christian von
Somatotomia andropologica [sic], seu Corporis Humani Fabrica
methodice divisa, & controversarum quaestionum discussionibus
illustrata.
Prague: typis Joannis Caroli Gerzabek, 1686.
Folio: )+( 2 , )*( 2 , A–2G2 , 64 leaves, pp. [8] 118 [2]. Woodcut initials and
headpieces.
29 engraved plates: engraved titlepage dated 1685 and Tab 1–28, the
Wrst in duplicate in this copy.
295 x 185mm. Text and plates browned but fresh, tear in blank margin
of Tab. 12, Tabs 27 and 28 waterstained.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards, page edges stained green.
Provenance: Contemporary inscription ‘Libris Joannis Thomae Bosch
Medicinae Doctoris’ on endleaf.
First edition, state of title with mis­spelling ‘andropologica’ on title
(corrected to ‘anthropologica in some copies). The work was re­issued
in 1692. Krivatsy 13244; Heirs of Hippocrates 628.
A rare anatomy which presumably reXects Zeidler’s teaching at Prague.
Zeidler was responsible for building an anatomy theatre at the Charity Hospital
there, shown in the interior and exterior views on the engraved titlepage.
The dissecting scene is curiously old fashioned, showing Zeidler using a long
pointer while a dissector wields the knife. This is odd, given that the book was
published almost 150 years after Vesalius had shown himself as both professor
and dissector on the titlepage of the Fabrica (1543). It seems improbable
that Zeidler was still teaching ex cathedra, so perhaps the artist was simply
following an older convention.
Apart from Brockbank and Wilson’s article, an oVprint of which is laid in,
the book seems to be unknown to medical historians.
W. Brockbank and G. Wilson, ‘The Anatomy of Zeidlern (1686)’, Medical History
1 (1957) 353–4 and plate.