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De humani corporis fabrica libri decem, tabulis XCIIX aeri incisis...opus posthumum


Tabulæ anatomicæ LXXIIX omnes novæ nec ante hac visæ
Engraver: Francesco Valesio (Italian, about 1560–active to 1643)
Engraver: Joseph Mauerer (German)
After: Odoardo Fialetti (Italian, 1573–1638)
Author: Adriaan van der Spiegel (Flemish (worked in Italy), 1578–1625)
Author: Giulio Cesare Casseri (Italian, 1552–1616)
Editor: Daniel Bucretius (German, 1600–1631)
1627
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy

Medium/Technique Illustrated book (two parts) with 99 engravings
Dimensions Overall: 41.9 x 27.9 x 6.4 cm (16 1/2 x 11 x 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Arthur E. Vershbow
Accession Number2002.895.1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: Evangelista Deuchino, 1627

Catalogue Raisonné Choulant-Frank, pp. 225-8; Cushing S-362 and C-114
Description(Venice: Evangelista Deuchino, for Daniel Bucretius, 1627) Folio; [Spiegel text] 177 leaves, [Casseri plates] 52 leaves; eighteenth[?]-century blind-stamped vellum, gilt-stamped brown calf label. BOUND with Spiegel, De formato foetu (Padua: 1626) [2002.895.2]

Allegorical engraved title pages, anatomical illustrations
ProvenanceThe Watson Collection; presented to the Library of the Medical Society, County of Kings, September 1900 (No. 19077; withdrawn 1973); Lathrop C. Harper, New York, from whom purchased in 1974 by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow; given by Mr. Vershbow to MFA, 27 December 2002.