Beschreibung:

VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem . Venice: Franciscus Francisci and Johann Criegher, 1568.
VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem . Venice: Franciscus Francisci and Johann Criegher, 1568. 2 o (326 x 220 mm). Printer's device on title, woodcut illustrations and initials. (Small stain on title-pageContemporary vellum over pasteboard (rebacked). Provenance : Horatio de Noccis of Castello Horca (early signature on title-page); Dr Bartolomeo Marzo (early signature on title-page); John H. Brinton, M.D. (gift inscription from Brinton Coxe dated "July 9/1891" on front free endpaper, his ink stamp on title-page, and signature on front free endpaper); Ward Brinton, M.D. (signature dated 1908 on front free endpaper); Oswald Weigel (stamp on front pastedown). Fourth edition and THIRD FOLIO EDITION. The illustrations are reduced copies of the blocks cut for the first edition (Basel, 1543). "The copying was done from the Oporin edition of 1555 and includes eight additions made in 1555. The Basel woodcuts are attributed to Jan Stephan van Calcar, a pupil of Titian. Franceschi states in his dedication to Antonio Montecatini that Giovanni Chrieger cut these Venice copies" (Mortimer). FINE AMERICAN MEDICAL PROVENANCE: John Hill Brinton (1832-1907) was a prominent American surgeon from Philadelphia and friend of painter Thomas Eakins He succeeded Dr. Samuel D. Gross (who was featured in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic), in the chair of surgery at Jefferson College, and also served as the chairman of the Mütter Museum Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He also founded the Philadelphia Pathological Society, and served as the first curator of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. Adams V-606; Choulant-Frank, p. 182; Cushing VI.A.-4; Harvard Italian 529; NLM/Durling 4580; Osler 569; Waller 9902.