SPIGELIUS ADRIANUS Opera omnia quae extant 1645 Large pape

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LARGE-PAPER COPY, HAND-COLORED SPIGELIUS, ADRIANUS. Opera omnia quae extant. 108 (of 117) engraved anatomical illustrations, most full-page, chiefly after Giulio Casserio, hand-colored at a later date; lacks a4, b1, r3, s1, v2, x3, 2D4, 2E, and 2E2, all with full-page illustrations (replaced with facsimiles). [24], 303, [15], 199, [1], [4], 49, [1], [2], xxxv, [13], xxxviiii-lxxxvi, [6]; [8], 155, [9] pages, including engraved general title and portrait of the author, both hand-colored. Folio, contemporary gilt-panelled calf with composite center lozenge of volutes, prancing deer, and other ornamental tools, rebacked; dampstaining in upper inner corners of approximately the last 30 leaves with traces of mold, otherwise generally quite clean internally. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1645

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