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

200 c   VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Anatomia. Woodcut text illustrations throughout. [8], 510, [46], [19] pages, including half-title and engraved title. Folio, 343x234 mm, contemporary vellum-backed wrappers, quite worn, horizontal crack across backstrip, covers soiled and stained; scattered soiling, conspicuous dampstain in upper outer corner of pages 201-400 affecting a few full-length neurological figures, vertical clean tear in X2; cloth folding case. Laid is a manuscript list of muscles (“Tratto de Miologia”) in an early hand on 2 folded leaves. Venice: Giovanni Antonio & Giacomo de Franceschi, (1604) [3,000/4,000] Fifth edition, and fourth in folio format, of Vesalius’s landmark treatise on human anatomy, reusing the woodblocks from the unauthorized 1568 edition. Cushing VI.A.-5; Krivatsy 12318. 201 c   VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND. Neurographia universalis . . . Editio in Germania prima. 36 engraved plates, half of them folding, numbered 1-30 (counting 4 for plate 28 and 4 for plate 29). [36], 492, [12] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait. 8vo, 163x98 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink, soiled, front cover warped; dampstaining mainly in margins at beginning and end and also on folding plates, contemporary signature in blank lower margin of portrait, repaired clean tear in plates 19 and 26, endpapers wormed in gutters, blank upper outer corner excised from front flyleaf. Frankfurt am Main: Georg Wilhelm Kühn, 1690 [500/750] Second edition, and first printed in Germany. “The best-illustrated neurological monograph of the seventeenth century . . . He showed the spinal cord to be an independent structure, and his elucidation of the fine structure of the cerebellum (including the discovery of the dentate nuclei) surpassed all previous descriptions”—Norman 2153 (1684 original edition). Krivatsy 12404 (this edition). 200 medicine , continued