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DRYANDER, Johannes (1500-60). Anatomiae, hoc est, corporis humani dissectionis pars prior [all published] - Anatomia Porci, ex traditione Cophonis - Anatomia Infantis, ex Gabriele de Zerbis . Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus, June 1537. 4 o (195 x 150 mm). Collation: a-i 4 . 36 leaves. Roman type. Title within woodcut border, 23 woodcuts, of which 19 full-page (including two repeats) and 4 half-page, the full-page cuts printed on rectos and letter-keyed to letterpress descriptions on facing versos, printer's device on verso of last leaf, one half-page woodcut fraktur initial, one 10-line and six 4-line woodcut historiated initials, letterpress folding table. (Title-leaf marginally discolored and with small repairs in gutter margin, old crease-marks to fols. a2-4, woodcut on e1 shaved, marginal repairs to e4, f3 and f4 catching woodcut border on e4, staining to last 4 leaves.) Modern red morocco. Provenance : "EI", minuscule inkstamped monogram in lower fore-corner of a4r. FIRST EDITION. The treatise records a lecture delivered by Dryander at the University of Marburg on October 25, 1536, in which he praised Prince Philip of Hesse (dedicatee of the printed work) for permitting public dissection of the corpses of criminals and advocating state support for the study of anatomy. The text expands upon Dryander's Anatomia capitis humani , published the previous year (see preceding lot); here he explores the anatomy of the head in greater detail and includes new material on the lungs and heart, as well as the 12th-century Anatomia porci , traditionally ascribed to Copho (fl. ca. 1110) and first printed in Lyon in 1523, and excerpts from the Anatomia infantis by Gabriele de Zerbis (1445-1505), a treatise on the anatomy of the foetus. The woodcuts consist of 13 full-page illustrations of the head and brain, of which 11 reprinted from the Anatomia capitis with the numbers removed from the woodblocks, the remaining two full-page skull cuts, both dated 1536, being new to this edition; 4 small detail cuts of the skull seen from different angles, also reprinted from the earlier work; and 4 large new cuts of the chest and lungs (one dated 1537). Three of the new woodcuts as well as five of the previously used cuts are signed with the compass and G device, which have been ascribed to either the school of Hans Brosamer or the engraver Georg Thomas. Complete copies with the typographical table are OF CONSIDERABLE RARITY. BM/STC German p. 255; Choulant-Frank, pp. 148-149; Garrison-Morton 371; Heirs of Hippocrates 139; NLM/Durling 1215; Stillwell Science 621; Norman 657.