Nov 03, 2006 - Sale 2092

Sale 2092 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 4,165
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Anatomia. Woodcut text illustrations throughout. [6] (of [8]), 510, [46], [19] pages, including engraved title; lacks half-title. Folio, 312x212 mm, early 20th-century boards, somewhat soiled and rubbed; occasional browning or foxing, opening leaves dampstained in outer margins with light traces of mold and minor restoration along fore edges minimally affecting lower portion of title border, memento mori sentiment in Italian written in ink in lower margin of full-page skeleton woodcut on L2r and showing through on verso, vertical tear in M4 repaired with discoloration but without loss to full-length muscle man on recto; bookplates. Venice: apud Joan. Anton. et Jacobum de Franciscis, (1604)
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Fifth edition. Cushing VI.A.-5; Krivatsy 12318.