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ANATOMICAL ATLASES -- VESALIUS, A. Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Cura H. Boerhaave & B.S. Albini. Leiden, J. du Vivie and J. & H. Verbeek, 1725. 2 vols. (40), 572; (8), 577-1156, (51) pp. W. engr. ti., 2 engr. ti-vign., engr. portr. of the author, 80 (of 82) fine engr. plates by J. Wandelaar after Van Calcar, and num. text engr. Fol. Cont. full cf. w. raised bands. (Joints (partly) split, top of spine vol. 1 torn, bottom of spine vol. 2 dam., corner bumped, plates 74 & 75 lack, plate 63 bound in vol. 2, pp. 175-178 misbound, a bit browned/foxed in places).
Bibliotheca Walleriana 9917; Hirsch-H. VI, p.97; Osler 579; Choulant-Frank p. 183; BMN I, p.63; Lindeboom p.185; Norman Library 2143: "The only collected edition of Vesalius' works, issued by Boerhaave (...) and Albinus (...), with copperplate reproductions of the Vesalian woodblocks by Jan Wandelaar (...). The editors added explanations of Vesalius's sixteenth-century anatomical nomenclature for their eighteenth-century readers, and prefaced the first volume with a biography of Vesalius, which Lindeboom has tentatively attributed to Boerhaave (...)." Missing plates 74 and 75, depicting the naked figures of a man and a woman. - From the library of the famous Dutch physician J.A.J. Barge (1884-1952) and with his bookplate.€ 3000
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