VESALE, André (1514-1564) Opera omnia anatomica... Lot 38

VESALE, André (1514-1564) Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Cura H. Boerhaave and B.S. Albini Leiden, Jean du Vivié, J. and H. Verbeek. 1725. Two large volumes in-folio (interior dimensions 458 X 282 mm). Full shagreened calf, triple fillet, spine with 6 nerves, the caissons decorated with an elegant iron "au vase fleuri", and with a decoration in small irons; title and greeves in red morocco; 2 straight fillets on the edges; large roulette with floral decoration on the endpapers. First part: False title, frontispiece, title in red and black; (21 leaves) including a portrait of Vesalius on the verso of the last, 572 pages. 67 plates. Second part: (4 ff), pp 577-686, (1 f), pp 687-1156, (26 ff) for the general index. 15 plates. (Covers damaged; corners worn; spines split. Small losses to the title and tome of volume I. Marginal tear, without missing, to the plate "Venarum et item arteriarem omnium integra delineatio", placed between I, 364-365. Some leaves slightly creased or corroded. Some quires of volume II uniformly foxed). Provenance : Stamp end of XIXth century "Pierre Doyen, doctor in Mende". First edition of the complete works of Vesalius, founder of modern anatomy. This monumental edition is given by two of the most learned physicians of the XVIIIth century, Hermann Boerhaave and Bernhard Albinus. It is illustrated with 38 in-text vignettes, and 82 copper-engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar, a pupil of Folkema and Gérard de Lairesse, based on the xylographs of the De humani corporis fabrica, whose first edition, in 1543, earned Vesalius the appointment as court physician of Charles V. Some of these plates, such as the frontispiece representing Vesalius' public dissection lesson, are among the most famous in medical iconography. Well completed with the portrait of Vesalius, attributed to Titian. Good condition inside. The binding, of good quality, requires a skilful restoration. Expert : Mr Jean-Paul Veyssière.