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EUSTACHI, BARTOLOMMEO. Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae. With notes by Andrea Massimini. Title in red and black with engraved vignette of dissection scene; 47 engraved anatomical plates after Eustachi. lx, 130 [i. e., 128], [1] pages, including half-title and final errata leaf. Folio, 392x270 mm, contemporary Italian vellum, 2 holes in front joint, another in fore edge of front cover; heavy marginal dampstaining at beginning and end variously affecting plates, some text leaves and plates browned. Leo S. Olschki booklabel. Rome: Paulus Junchius, 1783
First Massimini edition. The engravings of Eustachi's drawings were completed by 1552 but remained unpublished until their rediscovery in the Vatican Library in the early 18th century, when they were presented by Pope Clement XI to his physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, who first published them in 1714. Garrison-Morton 391; Heirs of Hippocrates 324 (both citing original edition).
