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VESALIUS. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Cum indice rerum & uerborum memorabilium locupletissimo.

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VESALIUS. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Cum indice rerum & uerborum memorabilium locupletissimo.
1568

 
VESALIUS, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Cum indice rerum & uerborum memorabilium locupletissimo.
Venezia, Francesco De Franceschi senese & Johann Criegher, 1568

Folio. Legatura in piena pelle bazzana bionda, filetto in oro sui piatti, dorso a nervi. Pagine [12], 510, [46]. Grande marca tipografica sul Frontespizio, Iniziali e Testatine, xilografiche, carattere romano, corsivo e greco. Numerose illustrazioni anatomiche xilografiche, alcune a piena pagina. Moderno Ex libris “A. Denier” incollato al contropiatto, antiche note manoscritte di possesso sul Frontespizio. Sporadiche macchie, buon esemplare. 

Terza edizione illustrata, in-folio, e quarta edizione del testo. Il foglio 2d5 (p. 321) contiene figure da ritagliare e sovrapporre all'illustrazione di pagina 318 ove č raffigurato il sistema arterioso del corpo: in questa copia č lasciato intatto. L’opera č stampata su carta forte e contiene note marginali come nell'edizione di Basilea del 1555. Le illustrazioni qui presenti sono copie ridotte dei blocchi impressi per la prima edizione del 1543. Mortimer: “The copying was done from the Oporin edition of 1555 and includes eight additions made in 1555. The Basel woodcuts are attributed to Jan Stephan van Calcar, a pupil of Titian. Franceschi states in his dedication to Antonio Montecatini that Giovanni Chrieger cut these Venice copies” 
Cushing, p. 92: “"In 1564, the year of his death, Vesalius stopped in Venice on his way to the Holy Land and submitted his last book, a reply to Fallopius, to the printer Francesco Senense for publication. This same printer, four years later, in collaboration with a Pomeranian engraver, Johannes Criegher, whose name he generously coupled with his own as printer, ventured to print a complete text of the 1555 Fabrica in a smaller format and with all of the wood-blocks recut in smaller size. [. . .] The new woodcuts for the illustrations, however, were so well executed that the engraver might almost have passed for the same person who in Venice at the behest of Vesalius had cut the original blocks for the larger work. It must have been not only an expensive undertaking but a venturesome one [. . .] This edition was a foreign book, printed without licence, there being no regulation at the time (1568) to prevent this and it was a common enough practice”.
Choulant-Frank, p.182; Osler 569; Waller 9902; Adams V-606; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 529; NLM/Durling 4580; Machiels V-228; Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, VI.A.-4. 

Condition Report

VESALIUS, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Cum indice rerum & uerborum memorabilium locupletissimo
Venice, Apud Franciscum Franciscium Senensem, & Ioannem Criegher Germanum, 1568

Folio. Full blond leather binding, gilt rules on the covers, ribbed spine. Pages [12], 510, [46]. Large printer’s device on the title page, woodcut initials and headpieces, Roman, Italic and Greek type. Numerous woodcut anatomical illustrations, some full page. Modern bookplate “A. Denier” glued on inside cover, old handwritten notes of ownership on the title page. Sporadic stains, good copy.

Third illustrated edition, in-folio, and the fourth edition of the text. Leaf 2d5 (p. 321) contains figures to be cut out and superimposed on the illustration on page 318 where the arterial system of the body is depicted: in this copy it is left intact. The work is printed on thick paper and contains marginal notes as in the 1555 Basel edition. The illustrations are reduced copies of the blocks cut for the first edition (Basel, 1543). 
Mortimer: “The copying was done from the Oporin edition of 1555 and includes eight additions made in 1555. The Basel woodcuts are attributed to Jan Stephan van Calcar, a pupil of Titian. Franceschi states in his dedication to Antonio Montecatini that Giovanni Chrieger cut these Venice copies” 
Cushing, p. 92: “"In 1564, the year of his death, Vesalius stopped in Venice on his way to the Holy Land and submitted his last book, a reply to Fallopius, to the printer Francesco Senense for publication. This same printer, four years later, in collaboration with a Pomeranian engraver, Johannes Criegher, whose name he generously coupled with his own as printer, ventured to print a complete text of the 1555 Fabrica in a smaller format and with all of the wood-blocks recut in smaller size. [. . .] The new woodcuts for the illustrations, however, were so well executed that the engraver might almost have passed for the same person who in Venice at the behest of Vesalius had cut the original blocks for the larger work. It must have been not only an expensive undertaking but a venturesome one [. . .] This edition was a foreign book, printed without licence, there being no regulation at the time (1568) to prevent this and it was a common enough practice”.
Choulant-Frank, p.182; Osler 569; Waller 9902; Adams V-606; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 529; NLM/Durling 4580; Machiels V-228; Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, VI.A.-4. 

Bibliografia

Choulant-Frank, p.182; Osler 569; Waller 9902; Adams V-606; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 529; NLM/Durling 4580; Machiels V-228; Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, VI.A.-4. 
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