May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 283

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Icones Anatomicae. 277 plates, some folding, illustrating Vesalius's Fabrica, Epitome, and Tabulae . . . sex. With leaf To The Reader laid in. Folio, 545x385 mm, original 1/2 pigskin gilt by Frieda Thiersch; contents clean; publisher's folding box (worn, partly cracked). Owners' inscriptions on front free endpaper. (Munich), 1934 [i. e., 1935]

Additional Details

number 180 of 615 numbered copies, printed at the Bremer Press. All but 50 of the plates were printed from the original woodblocks preserved in the library of the University of Munich, which published this volume jointly with the New York Academy of Medicine. The blocks were destroyed during the bombing of Munich in 1943. Cushing VI.A-16; Waller 9907; Heirs of Hippocrates 289. the artist reginald marsh's copy. with his signature and address dated 1947 on the front free endpaper.