Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 319

Price Realized: $ 7,350
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Icones Anatomicae. 277 plates, some folding, illustrating Vesalius's Fabrica, Epitome, and Tabulae . . . sex. With leaf To The Reader laid in. Folio, 545x375 mm, original 1/2 pigskin gilt by Frieda Thiersch, pigskin slightly yellowed, spine ends and raised bands rubbed; contents immaculate; without publisher's folding box. (Munich), 1934 [i. e., 1935]

Additional Details

one of 615 numbered copies, printed at the Bremer Press. With the leaf "To the Reader" laid in. All but 50 of the plates were printed from the original blocks preserved in 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 289.