EUSTACHI BARTOLOMMEO Tabulae anatomicae editio Romana alt

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EUSTACHI, BARTOLOMMEO. Tabulae anatomicae . . . editio Romana altera. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; title in red and black with engraved vignette of dissection scene; 47 engraved anatomical plates after Eustachi. xxviii, 79, [11] pages. Folio, 372x248 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends chipped, joints cracked at bottom; scattered minor foxing, minimally affecting plates. Rome: Lorenzo & Tommaso Pagliarini, 1728

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The engravings of Eustachi's drawings were completed by 1552 but remained unpublished until their rediscovery in the Vatican Library in the early 18th century, when they were presented by Pope Clement XI to his physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi,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. "Although from an artistic standpoint they are not as well done as the anatomical plates of Vesalius, from the point of view of anatomy they are sometimes more accurate . . . Had the plates been published at the time they were executed, Eustachi would undoubtedly have ranked with Vesalius as a founder of modern anatomical studies"--Heirs of Hippocrates 324 (original edition). Garrison-Morton 391.