VESALIUS ANDREAS Icones Anatomicae 1934 [i e 1935]

Sale 2425 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 5,250

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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Icones Anatomicae. Plates with illustrations from Vesalius's 1543 Fabrica printed from the original woodblocks; 2 folding plates reproducing designs for the original title page. Half-title. Folio, 547x385 mm, original pigskin gilt by Frieda Thiersch, faint soiling on spine; contents clean, vertical crease in outer margin of second folding plate and in title to the Index tabularum, large bookplates on front pastedown; uncut; later cloth folding case. Leaf "To the Reader" laid in. (Munich), 1934 [i. e., 1935]

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number 107 of 615 copies printed at the Bremer Press; issue including Latin explanatory text. All but 50 of the illustrations were printed from the original blocks, which had been preserved in the library of the University of Munich and were subsequently destroyed during World War II. Cushing VI.A-16.