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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, stains at bottom of front cover and in upper portion of rear cover; contents clean though with slight dampwrinkling along edges, owner's unobtrusive stamp and purchase inscription on front free endpaper; publisher's folding box (worn, partly cracked). (Munich), 1934 [i. e., 1935]
Number 145 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.
