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ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED. Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii. 47 plates on 43 leaves, all but the first 4 folding, comprising 47 subjects after Eustachi with accompanying duplicates in outline. [8], 28, 277 [i. e., 275], [3] pages, including half-title. Folio, 397x247 mm, contemporary vellum, worn; text toned, occasional foxing and stains marginally affecting some plates, scattered pencil marginalia on text leaves and plates, clean tear in blank lower margin of plate 25, scored signatures on title, owner's notes on rear free endpaper. Leiden: (Typographia Dammeana for) Johannes Arnold Langerak et al., 1744
first albinus edition of Bartolommeo Eustachi's Tabulae anatomicae, and the first to include outline duplicates as a learning aid. The engravings of Eustachi's drawings were completed in the mid-16th century but remained unpublished until their rediscovery in the Vatican Library in the early 18th century, when they were presented by Pope Clement XI to his physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi,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 (original edition, "more accurate than the work of Vesalius"); Choulant-Frank, page 202; Heirs of Hippocrates 326 (this edition).
