corporis humani fabrica, Prima edizione (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, large folio 41.5x27cm (max), pp (xii) 659 (recte 663) (xxxvii) Roman and Italic letter, remarkable and highly detailed woodcut to t-p depicting Vesalius in a classical dissecting theatre with opened female cadaver surrounded by a large crowd of physicians, students and casual onlookers. Handsome full page portrait of the author age 28 preceding text, some 200 woodcuts of the human anatomy including 2 double page and 21 magnificent full page illustrations of the skeletal, muscular, vascular, and nervous systems and a further 200 large historiated initials depicting the arts of surgery, dissection and obstetrics. T-p substantially but almost imperceptibly remargined, final colophon leaf a bit creased due to ancient repair in blank. Two ll. reinforced at gutter. Light yellowing in places, a little more pronounced in first and final gathering, the odd minor marginal water stain to a few ll., slight foxing to some outer margins, small hole to *4 verso with loss of one letter, the occasional spot. A very good, well margined copy of this immensely practical and much used work in C17 panelled sheep, rebacked, spine remounted, abrasions to cover but very sound, edges sprinkled red. Bookplates of Norman Haskell and Arthur Lyons, in fleece lined morrocco folding box, some wear at edges. "It cannot be denied that the Fabrica is the most famous anatomical work ever published, to this day one of the most beautiful in existence and the milestone in all medical history which definitely showed a fresh break from the old traditions". Heirs of Hippocrates 172. The De Humani Corporis (Fabrica) is an extraordinarily complete anatomical and physiological study of every part of the human body, based on Vesalius' first hand examinations and five years' experience as the public prosector in the medical school at Padua. The five books deal with the bones, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, abdominal viscera, thoracic organs and brain. Although Vesalius' study of medicine began just after Galen's anatomical work was becoming known, Vesalius did not just improve it, he superseded it. Subsequently the history of anatomy has been divided into two periods, pre-Vesalius and post-Vesalius. "The Fabrica, a handsomely printed folio, as remarkable for its series of magnificent plates which set new technical standards of anatomical illustrations and indeed book illustration in general. They have generally been ascribed to an artist of Titian's school. Vesalius was the most splendid and most comprehensive of a large number of anatomical treatises of the sixteenth century. No other work equals it. It was translated, reissued, copied and plagiarised over and over again and its illustrations were used or copied in other medical works until the end of the eighteenth century." Printing and the Mind of Man 71. The stunning blocks for this Basel edition were long attributed to Titian's pupil, Jan Stephan van Calcar (Mortimer, Harvard C16 IV.It.p733) though this is now disputed, but they were cut at Venice and sent by Vesalius to Oporinus with instructions for printing. "They are famous for their beauty, accuracy and lavishness of detail and number" (Heirs of Hippocrates 172). However more important than their anatomical information was the scientific principle they contained which was fundamental to anatomical research and has remained so. With the publication of the Fabrica all major investigators of anatomy were compelled to recognise that attempts to project the anatomy of animals on the human body (the basis of Galenic anatomy) were flawed and the only true source of human anatomical knowledge was the dissection and observation of the human body. "It cannot be emphasised too often that this was an epochal book. the first edition of the Fabrica is the heart of any medical library." (Heirs of Hippocrates 172) Choulant - Frank p169 et seq. Cushing V 76 Cushing Vesalius VI A-I. Osler 567 "the first modern work of a creator". PMM 71.

Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555]. Second and best folio edition (first published in 1543) of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century. With author's final additions and corrections as well as a renewed woodcut title-page and and initials. Large folio (16 x 10 7/8 inches; 407 x 275 mm). [12], 504, [1, folding table paginated "505"], [1, unpaginated leaf of figures to be superimposed], 507-824, [48] pp. Collation: a-z6 A-V6 X2 (including fold-out sheet) Y-Z6 aa6 bb8 (bb 6-7 is fold-out sheet) cc- zz6 Aa8 Bb-Ee6. Complete with woodcut title, woodcut portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations (including nineteen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, and seven-to twelve-line historiated woodcut initials. Full 17th century paneled calf, boards paneled in gilt. Rebacked with early spine laid- down. Spine stamped in gilt. Red Morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. With some expert restoration to folding plates. A small professional repair to page 203. Some minor marginal staining to pages 509-566 and 794 through the end. A handsome copy with crisp clean pages. Overall a very good copy. "This edition contains Vesalius's final revisions of the text, along with significant typographical improvements and refinements. Oporinus set the second folio edition in larger type (forty-nine instead of fifty-seven lines per page), which required recutting of all the small initials letters so that they could fit seven lines of the new type. Oporinus also used heavier and finer paper for the second edition, and improved the presswork so that the second edition is a superior example of bookmaking" (Norman Library). Aside from the renewed engraved title-page and initials, this second edition (1555) used the same plates as the first edition. The woodblocks survived in Germany until the Second World War during which they were destroyed while in the Munich Library. Before they were destroyed in the war, the Bremer press published their 1935 Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis Icones Anatomicae edition useing the original blocks from 1543 and 1555, and interspersed passages of text, the "key" to the illustrations from the 1555 (present) edition. "The young Vesalius, with an iconoclastic zeal characteristic of the sixteenth century, and a forcible style all his own, endeavoured to do all that Galen had done and to do it better. The result was 'The Structure of the Human Body', published when he was twenty-nine; a complete anatomical and physiological study of every part of the human body, based on first-hand examination and his five years' experience as public prosector in the medical school at Padua. The five books deal with the bones and muscles, blood vessels, nerves, abdominal viscera, thoracic organs and the brain. Galen was not merely improved upon: he was superseded; and the history of anatomy is divided into two periods, pre-Vesalian and post-Vesalian. The Fabrica, a handsomely printed folio, is remarkable for its series of magnificent plates, which set new technical standards of anatomical illustrations, and indeed of book illustration in general. They have generally been ascribed to an artist of Titian's school, long (but no longer) thought to be Jan Stephen van Calcar (1499-c. 1550). Vesalius's was the most splendid and the most comprehensive of a large number of anatomical treatises of the sixteenth century. The second edition (1555) used the same plates (the woodblocks indeed survived in Germany until the Second World War) but contains minor variations in the text. No other work of the sixteenth century equals it" (Printing and the Mind of Man ). Adams V605.Choulant-Frank, pp. 181-182. Cushing, Vesalius, VI.A.-3. Garrison and Morton 377. NLM/Durling 4579. Norman Library 2139. Osler 568. Waller 9901. Wellcome 6562. Printing and the Mind of Man 71 (describing the 1543 first folio edition). HBS 68434. $105,000.

Couverture rigide. Condizione: Neuf. Condizione sovraccoperta: Neuf. Edition originale. De Humani corporis fabrica librorum Epitome. Luxusausgabe. Von Andreas Vesalius. Stuttgart 1970. 39 x 52 cm, 24 Seiten, gedruckt auf Fabiano Rug, Halbledereinband mit Lederecken, Extrasuite von 4 Blatt mit Holzschnitt-Illustrationen in Mappe, römisch nummeriert, limitiert (500 Expl.). Mit 23 Jahren wurde der Autor in Padua Professor der Chirurgie mit Lehrverpflichtung zur Anatomie und schuf in dieser Zeit sein anatomisches Lebenswerk. Mit dem 1543 veröffentlichten Werk »De humani corporis fabrica« (»Über den Bau des menschlichen Körpers«) vertrat er gegen die allgemeine Überzeugung die Einstellung, dass nur die menschliche Leiche ein zuverlässiger Weg zur Erkenntnis über den Körperbau bietet und präpariert in diesem Zusammenhang die sterblichen Überreste eines Verbrechers, das so genannte »Vesalsche Skelett«, das noch heute in der anatomischen Sammlung in Basel erhalten ist. Der Autor hat Geschichte gemacht und die Medizin als Naturwissenschaft aus der antiken und mittelalterlichen Lehre in die Moderne der Neuzeit gebracht. - Language : Latin text Codice Libreria 010681 Esemplare LXVI di C Size: 390 x520 mm.