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Carlo Ruini (c1530-1598)

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£ 25 000
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09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 103 | Carlo Ruini (c1530-1598)
Carlo Ruini (c.1530-1598)

Dell'anotomia, et dell'infirmita del cavallo. 1598

RUINI, Carlo (c.1530-1598). Dell'anotomia, et dell'infirmita del cavallo. Bologna: heirs of Giovanni Rossi, 1598.



Rare first edition, first issue of the first book devoted exclusively to the anatomy of an animal and the first monograph on horses: 'one of the great rarities of early zootomical literature' (Cole). It 'is the first devoted to the anatomy of an animal, and is one of the finest achievements of the heroic age of Anatomy' (Singer).'Besides being one of the foundation-stones of modern veterinary medicine, it contains a description of the lesser circulation. The admirable woodcuts were inspired by those in Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543)' (Garrison-Morton). It was reissued in 1602 by Bindoni at Venice with the Rossi sheets and new preliminaries. BM/STC Italian p. 592; Dibner, Heralds186; Garrison-Morton 285; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 448; Norman 1858.



Two parts in one volume, folio (318 x 227mm). Woodcut arms of the dedicatee, cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, on title-page, repeated on title for second part, 64 full-page woodcut illustrations, all in Book 1, gatherings *-3*6 bound at end of Book 2, with blank after second title but lacking final blank (fig. XI with 2 annotations in ink almost causing burn holes, light spotting throughout, quire O in Book 1 and a few other leaves heavily browned, last two quires with short wormtrack in margin near gutter, final leaf with small marginal repair). Near-contemporary vellum (lightly soiled, extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: Count Paolo Merenda Salecchi of Forli (Emilia-Romagna), son of Fabrizio and Maddalena dei conti Salecchi of Faenza, and brother of Giuseppe Merenda, architect, minister and Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (c.1695-1757; ownership inscription on title) – deleted ownership on title – deleted marginalia on 2D2 in Book 2 – semi erased stamp on z1 in woodcut – [Jean Blondelet].





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