Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii. Accedit tabularum editio nova.

Folio: [8]-28-277-[3] pp. (some usual spotting and browning).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine.

Most valuable and first edition by the Leiden scholar B.S. Albinus of the anatomical plates of B. Eustachius (d. 1574) containing extensive commentary and notes on the original text. Engr. ill.: vignette on title and 89 full-page anatomical plates being magnificent copies of the original plates by J. Wandelaar. "Eustachius was professor at the Collegia della Sapienzia in Rome, where, in 1552, he completed his Tabulae anatomicae (a set of superb plates, drawn by himself) which remained unprinted in the Papal Library for 162 years. Finally, Pope Clement XI presented the engraved plates to his physician Lancisi who, by the advice of Morgagni published them with his own notes in 1714. They were the first anatomic plates on copper." Title in red & black.
Ref. Bibl. Med. Neerl. I:84. - Blake 139. - Wellcome II:26. - Garrison & Morton 391. - STCN. - BnF. - Not in BL.