1553 Thomas Geminus – Anatomy of Andreas Vesalius Humani Corporis – First ed

1553 Thomas Geminus – Anatomy of Andreas Vesalius Humani Corporis – First ed

Andreas Vesalius (or Vesale) was a 16^th-century anatomist remembered for what is now considered to be one of the most important works of human anatomy “De Humani Corporis Fabrica”. This book offered new techniques in bodily dissections and showing portions of human anatomy not before studied and seen.

Flemish engraver Thomas Geminus published an impressive collection of Vesalius’s anatomical plates along with a summary of Vesalius’s ‘Fabrica’. Geminus, after moving to London, dedicated this work and the plates to King Edward VI. This collection proved to be one of the earliest of its kind – folios with copperplate engravings. The plates found in this edition are known to have been some of the first printed by a rolling press. In fact, only one other work was published with anatomical engravings prior to Geminus’s “Compendiosa” (Raynalde’s “Byrth of Mankinde”, 1540). This 1553 first English edition was collected and translated by Nicholas Udall and should be considered the most valuable and rarest of early English anatomical literature.

Item number: #26091

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GEMINUS, Thomas [i.e. Lambert]

Compendiosa totius anatomie delineation

London, [Nicolas Hill for Thomas Gemimus], 1553. First English edition.

Details:

• Collation:
  • Title page, 2 prefatory leaves, C², F⁶, J⁵, K²
  • Wanting 7 original leaves – all provided in professional facsimile
    • Provided in facsimile
  • Includes 19 of original plates, the rest provided in facsimile
• References: Garrison-Morton 376.1; STC 11714; USTC 516525
• Language: English
• Binding: Modern Leather folio; tight and secure
• Size: ~15.75in X 11in (40cm x 28cm)

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