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VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan de (fl. 1560). Vivae imagines partium corporis humani aereis formis expressae . - Andreas VESALIUS. De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome . Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1566. Large 4 o (307 x 212 mm). Collation: A-T 4 V 2 (A1r engraved title, A1v blank, A2r printer's dedication to the senators of Antwerp, A3r printer's preface and contents, A3v text, V2 blank removed); a-f 4 (a1r text of Epitome , f3r royal privilege dated 21 February 1565, f3v errata, f4 blank removed). Roman ( Vivae imagines ) and italic ( Epitome ) types, double column. Engraved architectural title by Pieter Huys after Lambert van Noort 42 full-page anatomical engravings by Pieter and Franz Huys, copying Gaspar Becerra's engravings for the 1556 Rome edition of Valverde's Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano , woodcut historiated initials, typographic head-piece ornaments. Ruled in red throughout. (Lightly washed and pressed, R3 with skilfully repaired tear touching text, short marginal repaired tears to L1, P2 and S3.) Fine retrospective mosaic binding by Cuzin of Paris, gold-tooled brown morocco with variously colored morocco inlays, decorated to a mid-16th-century Parisian entrelac design, white vellum doublures gold-tooled to an oriental center-and-corners design, edges gilt and gauffred; matching half morocco chemise and morocco-edged slipcase. Provenance : Robert Hoe (bookplate, Anderson Galleries, New York, Part II, 8 January 1912, lot 3330; Edouard Rahir (bookplate, Paris, Part II, 6 May 1931, lot 697). First Plantin edition of a re-engraved suite of the plates from Valverde's highly influential Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (Rome 1556) and its 1559 Italian edition. The Latin explanatory text is taken from Andr Wechel's 1565 Paris edition of Jacques Grvin's Anatomes totius aere insculpta delineatio , a condensed version of Geminus's 1545 Anatomy (see lot ...), itself an abridgement of Vesalius's Epitome . Juan de Valverde, a Spanish physician who had received his training in Padua under Vesalius and Realdo Colombo and became physician to Cardinal Alvarez de Toledo, general inquisitor of Rome, published his Historia in 1556, 13 years after Vesalius's Fabrica . In it he improved upon Vesalius's anatomical observations of the ear, the pregnant uterus, and above all the pulmonary circuit of the blood (a discovery in fact due to Valverde's teacher Colombo), illustrating the work with engraved, reduced and reversed copies of Vesalius's woodcuts (all but 15 of the plates are based on those of the Fabrica ). Valverde's justification of this plagiarism was that the re-use of the Vesalian figures would permit the reader to perceive better the differences between Vesalius's theories and Valverde's. Many of the cuts embellish on the original Vesalian figures through the addition of new details, such as suits of armor or different heads; others are combinations of two or more of the Vesalian woodcuts. The 15 new cuts include the famous image of a flayed body holding his own skin and a dagger, "possibly suggested by Michelangelo's flayed skin in the Sistine Chapel" (Harvard/Mortimer Italian 513). For this edition, which includes the full text of Vesalius's Epitome , Plantin hired the Dutch artists Pieter and Franz Huys to re-engrave Beccara's plates; a few are once again reversed. Adams V-233 (without the Epitome ); Choulant-Frank, p. 206; Cushing VI.D.-43; Voet --; Norman 2128.