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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Anatomia. Woodcut text illustrations throughout. [8], 510, [46], [19] pages, including half-title and engraved title. Folio, 343x234 mm, contemporary vellum-backed wrappers, quite worn, horizontal crack across backstrip, covers soiled and stained; scattered soiling, conspicuous dampstain in upper outer corner of pages 201-400 affecting a few full-length neurological figures, vertical clean tear in X2; cloth folding case. Laid is a manuscript list of muscles ("Tratto de Miologia") in an early hand on 2 folded leaves. Venice: Giovanni Antonio & Giacomo de Franceschi, (1604)
Fifth edition, and fourth in folio format, of Vesalius's landmark treatise on human anatomy, reusing the woodblocks from the unauthorized 1568 edition. Cushing VI.A.-5; Krivatsy 12318.
