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FIRST VESALIAN EDITION GALENUS, CLAUDIUS. Omnia opera. Titles within woodcut historiated border of medical vignettes depicting Galen and others. 9 (of 10) volumes in 5; lacks Septima classis. Folio, 330x218 mm, 18th-century 1/2 vellum; partly cropped contemporary marginalia throughout, infrequent browning or foxing, scattered marginal dampstains, early signatures on titles, general title in Volume 1 creased and partly detached. Venice: heirs of Luc'Antonio Giunta, 1541-42
Third Giunta edition of the writings of Galen in Latin translation, edited by Giovanni Battista da Monte. This is thefirst edition to include contributions by andreas vesalius, who revised the translation of 3 anatomical tracts in Prima classis dealing with the nervous and circulatory systems and anatomical procedures. Adams G34; Choulant, Handbuch, page 114; Cushing, pages 63-67; Durling 1751 (counting Quinta et sexta classis as 2 volumes, for a total of 11); Hoffmann II, 128; Renouard, page xxx. I--Isagogici libri. 14, 74 [i. e., 73], [1] leaves, including final blank. bound with: Prima classis. 333, [1] leaves, including final blank II--Secunda classis. [1], 107 [i. e., 108], [1] leaves, including final blank. bound with: Tertia classis. 189 leaves; lacks final blank III--Quarta classis. 221, [1] leaves, including final leaf with printer's device IV--Quinta et sexta classis. 306 [i. e., 303], [1] leaves, including colophon leaf V--Extra ordinem classium libri. 82 [i. e., 81], [1] leaves, including final blank. bound with: Galeno ascripti libri. [4], 115, [1] leaves, including final blank. and: Index. [6], 185, [1] leaves, including final leaf with printer's device.
