Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Vesalius, Andreas (1514-1564)
Anatomische Erklaerung der Original-Figuere.

Ingoldstadt: Anton Attenzhouer, 1783.

Folio, second edition of Henrich Palmaz Leveling's (1742-1798) translation, iconic full-paged woodcut compartment illustrating the crowded dissecting room; engraved vignette to typographical title with portrait of Leveling with the caduceus and skeleton; illustrated with more than 200 text woodcuts printed from the original Vesalian blocks, which were destroyed during the second World War when Munich was bombed; including two double-paged woodcuts and two folding; bound in later half leather and marbled paper boards, spine tooled in gilt, 16 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.

Leveling relied upon the input of Danish-born French anatomist Jakob Winslow (1669-1760) while crafting his pared-down explanations of Vesalius's images.

Cushing VI A-15; Heirs of Hippocrates 1042; Osler 573; Choulant-Frank 185; Waller 5752.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.