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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Anatomia Deudsch. Edited by Jacob Bauman. 40 engraved plates after Thomas Geminus. [2], 78 leaves. Folio, 382x283 mm, 18th-century 1/2 vellum with shelf number stamped in black on spine, hinges cracked, cords intact; marginal soiling and foxing through most of volume, intermittent marginal dampstaining, plate facing C5r (Adam and Eve) cropped in outer margin with loss of Adam's right hand, plate facing K3r cropped in outer margin without image loss, ink stain in blank upper margin of plate facing D6v, faint creases across plates facing E6v (with paper crack reinforced on verso), F4v, G4v, K6r, L2r, and N4v, vertical crease in last text leaf; cloth folding case. Bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries, release stamp of the latter on title verso. Nuremberg: Julius Paul Fabricius, 1551
first edition of an unauthorized German translation of the Epitome with illustrations after those copied by Geminus from the Epitome and Fabrica for the 1545 London Vesalian piracy. Cushing VI.D.-4; Durling 4583. With the bookplate and signature dated 1754 of the German animal painter and engraver Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767).
