Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 236

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?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. Folio, 545x375 mm, original 1/2 pigskin gilt by Frieda Thiersch; contents immaculate, with only institutional bookplate on front pastedown; uncut; custom leather-backed cloth folding case. Leaf 'To the Reader' (with clean tear), prospectus, and order form laid in. (Munich), 1934 [i. e., 1935]

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number 80 of 615 copies printed at the Bremer Press. All but 50 of the plates were made from the original blocks preserved at the Library of the University of Munich, which published this volume jointly with the New York Academy of Medicine. Cushing VI.A-16; Waller 9907; Heirs of Hippocrates 177.