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ANATOMICAL ATLASES -- LEVELING, H. PALMAZ. Anatomische Erklärung der Original-Figuren von Andreas Vesal samt einer Anwendung der Winslowischen Zergliederungslehre in sieben Büchern. Ingolstadt, A. Uttenthouer, 1783. W. woodcut title from the first edition, letterpress ti. w. engr. oval portr.-vign. of the author, w. over 200 woodcuts incl. 24 full-p. (large paper copy, so no plates are folding). Fol. Mod. hcf. extra in antique style, uncut. (Woodcut ti. a bit foxing, some unobtrusive foxing in margins in places, else a fine, untrimmed copy).
Second edition of which only 1,500 copies were printed. Leveling's translation included some updated information, rather than being simply a direct translation of Vesalius' Latin text. This edition used the original woodblocks from the Fabrica and Epitome, which were used again in the famous Bremer Presse edition of 1934-1935. The woodblocks did not survive World War II. - Choulant-Frank 185; Osler 573; Waller 5752; Heirs of Hippocrates 1042. - With bookplates of J. van der Hoeven & Alfred Schmid.€ 1500
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