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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. 76 (of 82) engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar after the original Vesalian woodcut illustrations; lacks plates 3, 74, 75, and 76a-c. [48], 572; [8], 577-1156, [52] pages, including half-title, engraved additional title, and portrait of Vesalius. 2 volumes. Folio, 424x270 mm, modern 1/4 red morocco with green morocco lettering pieces; half-title and titles reinforced along fore edge, scattered foxing marginally affecting a few plates, small rust hole through ankle of full-length figure in plate 31, repaired clean tear across 2F2 in Volume 1, some browning of text in Volume 2; uncut. Edward Clark Streeter bookplate. Leiden: apud Joannem du Vivie et Joan. & Herm. Verbeek, 1725
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.
