Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

180 c   BLAES or BLASIUS, GERARD. Anatome animalium. 5 engraved plates and 60 full-page illustrations (the first illustration printed upside down). [8], 494, [2] pages, including engraved allegorical additional title by Jan Luyken. 4to, 262x215 mm, contemporary vellum boards, small wormholes and stains on covers; scattered rust spots, dampstaining in lower margins in second half of volume minimally affecting illustrations, heavy spotting in outer margin of last leaf entering image on recto, lacks rear free endpaper; green edges. Amsterdam: sumptibus viduae Joannis à Someren et al., 1681 [500/750] first edition . “The first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist”—Cole, History of Comparative Anatomy, page 151. Garrison-Morton 296; Krivatsy 1339; Nissen ZBI 241; Norman 241. medicine , continued