Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Medico, Giuseppe del (fl. circa 1811)
Anatomia per Uso dei Pittori e Scultori.

Rome: Vincenzo Poggioli, 1811.

First edition, folio, eighty-four numbered pages with typographical printing followed by thirty-eight full-page engravings printed in black ink only, of which twenty-three have hand-coloring, mostly with the muscles and brain images done in a red wash, the last plate, showing intestines, employs pale red and pale blue; bound in later half cloth with patterned paper boards, some marginal notes and pencil sketches on some plates, spotting to title, a few plates browned, 16 x 10 1/2 in.

Choulant-Frank p. 331; Duval & Cuyer, Histoire de l'Anatomie Plastique, pages 358-63; Garrison-Morton 406; Heirs of Hippocrates 1166; Norman 1484.