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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564. Icones Anatomicae. Munich: The Bremer Press for the New York Acade...
VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564. Icones Anatomicae. Munich: The Bremer Press for the New York Acade...
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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564.
Icones Anatomicae. Munich: The Bremer Press for the New York Academy of Medicine and the University of Munich Library, 1934-1935.
Large folio (550 x 385 mm). Original publisher's half pigskin and boards, by Frieda Thiersch, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered. Soiling and stains to covers, handling wear, ink gift inscription on front flyleaf dated 1966, some fingermarks.

LIMITED EDITION, number 434 of 615 copies. This copy includes the 'Characterum Indices,' letterpress transcriptions of Vesalius's explanatory notes keyed to the woodcuts, printed from 227 of the original woodblocks used for Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica and his Epitome, which were tragically destroyed during World War II. The impressions in this modern fine press edition are darker and clearer than the original 1543 and 1555 editions of the Fabrica. Cushing Vesalius VI.A.-16; Heirs of Hippocrates 289; Norman 2145; Waller 9907.
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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564. Icones Anatomicae. Munich: The Bremer Press for the New York Acade...

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