VESALIUS ANDREAS Opera omnia anatomica chirurgica 2 vols

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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Engraved additional title and 78 (of 83) engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar after the original Vesalian woodcut illustrations; lacks plates 43 and 76a-c and the portrait of Vesalius. Half-title in first volume, not called for in second. 2 volumes. Folio, 400x250 mm, 20th-century institutional buckram with shelf label on spines; additional title cropped in outer margin and silked, scattered minor repairs, infrequent worming not impairing legibility on text leaves but slightly entering image on a few plates. Leiden: apud Joannem du Vivie et Joan. & Herm. Verbeek, 1725

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only collected edition of Vesalius's writings, edited by Hermann Boerhaave and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. Choulant-Frank, page 183; Cushing VI.-D.8; Heirs of Hippocrates 287; Lindeboom 554; Norman 2143.