Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 379

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
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 1/2 pigskin gilt by Frieda Thiersch, faint soiling on spine, joints and rear cover rubbed; contents clean, vertical crease in outer margin of second folding plate; uncut; lacks the publisher's box. Leaf "To the Reader" laid in. (Munich), 1934 [i. e., 1935]

Additional Details

number 251 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.