Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 181

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CASSERIO, GIULIO. De vocis auditusq[ue] organis historia anatomica. 33 (of 34) full-page engraved illustrations of human and animal organs of speech and hearing; with page 94 in second part left blank, but with facsimile of the missing illustration pasted in. [60], 191, [1]; 126, [2] pages, including engraved title, portraits of the author and the dedicatee, Ranuccio Farnese, Duke of Parma, and colophon leaf at end. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 388x262 mm, contemporary vellum boards, worn, recased with bottom of spine restored, endpapers renewed; occasional toning or browning, varying marginal dampstaining, foxing, or soiling, light to moderate offsetting from illustrations. (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldino, 1601)

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first edition. "Casserio attempted to explain human anatomy by reference to the lower animals, and his De vocis, containing the first comparative studies of the vocal and auditory organs, represents one of the sixteenth century's most ambitious and detailed investigations in comparative anatomy"--Norman 410. Garrison-Morton 286 and 1540; Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 62 ("a model and standard for subsequent draftsmen").