VESALIUS ANDREAS 1552 De Humani corporis fabrica lib VII

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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. De Humani corporis fabrica, lib. VII. Volume 1 (of 2). 458, [54]; 523, [45] pages, including last leaf with printer's device. 2 parts in one volume. 16mo, contemporary limp vellum with calligraphic title on spine, soiled, lacking ties and free endpapers, minor worming on pastedowns; small piece torn from blank outer margin of last leaf. Early ownership inscription of the Benedictine monastery of Weihenstephan in Freising, Bavaria. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1552

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Scarce pocket-format second edition of Vesalius's epochal treatise on human anatomy, containing 4 woodcuts of the skull on pages 130-32 but otherwise unillustrated. Cushing VI.A-2; Durling 4578.