Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 4,940
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Anatomia. Woodcut text illustrations throughout. [8], 510, [46], [19] pages, including half-title and engraved title. Folio, 326x225 mm, modern vellum boards with most of contemporary vellum spine and covers laid down; occasional marginal foxing and soiling, scattered stains, marginal restoration on first 10 leaves without text loss, repairs in gutters through much of volume entering some sidenotes, scattered other marginal repairs not affecting text or illustrations, old partly scored inscriptions on half-title and title. Venice: Giovanni Antonio & Giacomo de Franceschi, (1604)

Additional Details

Fifth edition, and fourth in folio format, of Vesalius's landmark treatise on human anatomy. Cushing VI.A.-5; Krivatsy 12318.