VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64)
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Lot 149 | VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64)
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De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome. Paris: André Wechel, 1560.
From the library of a 16th-century English surgeon: the very rare fourth edition of Vesalius’s Epitome, the first without illustrations. No copy has appeared at auction since 1972 (RareBookHub).
Originally published in 1543, Vesalius conceived of the Epitome as a complement to the fuller Fabrica, serving as a practical anatomical text to be consulted on a daily basis by medical students performing human dissections. The present unauthorized edition was published ‘at the behest of medical students. The Greek words originally in the margins were moved into the main Latin text so that students could use the margins thus freed up to jot things down during a dissection’ (Kusukawa). It contains the six chapters which appeared in the 1543 first edition, as well as a further chapter which in the first edition was the accompanying text to the figures of Adam and Eve.
The present copy bears the ownership inscription of the London medic Joseph Fenton (d. 1634), who in 1597 was appointed surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, a post he held more or less continuously until his death. Fenton assembled a large library of primarily medical books, of which around 300 survive today, many in the British Library via the collection of Hans Sloane. Cushing VI.B.-4; Heirs of Hippocrates, 293; NLM/Durling, 4582; Sachiko Kusukawa, Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books (2024).
5 works in one volume, small octavo (148 x 97mm). (Title almost detached, some minor staining and browning.) 19th-century cloth by Sizer, lettered and stamped in gilt on spine and with additional black leather spine label lettered in gilt (spine panel split but holding at lower joint). Provenance: Joseph Fenton (d.1634; ownership inscription on title with his characteristic note ‘Sustineo abstineo’ with each ‘o’ crossed out) – 17th-century ink marginal annotations including cross-references to an illustrated edition – some shelf/volume markings on title – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamp on first title [Medical and Chirurgical Society], gilt stamp on spine).
[Bound with:] LANDI, Bassiano (d. 1563). De humana historia vel singularum hominis partium cognitione. Basel: [Johann Oporinus, 1542].
[and:] VESLING, Johann (1598-1649). Syntagma anatomicum publicis dissectionibus, in auditorum usum, diligenter aptatum. Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1641. (Lacking the two-leaf dedication to Francesco Barberini (1597–1679)).
[and:] BLASIUS, Gerardus Leonardi (1627-1682). Observata anatomica. Leiden and Amsterdam: Gaasbeeck, 1674. Additional engraved title, 15 engraved illustrations on 12 leaves, leaf A6 containing plate 1 bound before A1, a duplicate A6 without the plate retained in part in the correct place (K3-4 somewhat dust-soiled and K4 strengthened in gutter, some leaves just trimmed).
[and:] GOODSCHALK, Didericus (fl. late 17th century). Prodromus de ossium tum generatione. Leiden: P. de Graaf, 1691. (Lacking the blank D8.)
| Artiste: | Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, France, Europe |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Médecine et sciences, Livres et manuscrits, Livres imprimés |
| Artiste: | Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, France, Europe |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Médecine et sciences, Livres et manuscrits, Livres imprimés |
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