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LEONARDO DA VINCI. Corpus of the Anatomical Studies in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. 2 volumes of text together with folding case containing concordance booklet and 200 color reproductions on 176 leaves. Folio, 468x323 mm, original blue goatskin by Zaehnsdorf, 2 faint scratches on Volume 1 front cover; contents immaculate. Prospectus laid in. New York, 1979-80
number 178 of 998 sets of the superbly produced and definitive scholarly edition of the annotated anatomical drawings by Leonardo at Windsor Castle. The full suite of color facsimiles is accompanied by text volumes containing monochrome reproductions with Leonardo's notes transcribed from the original Italian in mirror writing, an English translation, and extensive commentary. "In scientific accuracy, these drawings eclipse those in Vesalius and are not approached in artistic beauty by anything before the time of Soemmering and Scarpa"--Fielding Garrison in Choulant-Frank, page 105. DSB VIII, 203-06; Garrison-Morton 366.1; Heirs of Hippocrates 147.
