Liber primus [...] editio terti.

Brussels, Brothers t'Serstevens, 1726

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Description du lot

4to: [30]-400 pp.; 40 pl. (front. missing; pp. 393-400 misbound, some very min. spotting and browning).

Later overl. vellum, ms. titled upper board and flat spine, endpapers renewed.

Liber primus only of the 3rd ed. of the anatomical textbook by the Leuven professor of medicine Verheyen (1648-1710), 1st publ. Leuven 1693. Ill. with 40 folding plates. The manual was considered an excellent "fruit de nombreuses dissections minutieuses au cours desquelles [Verheyen] vérifia et corrigea au passage les erreurs et les imperfections des anatomistes précédents" (Sondervorst). Woodcut mark on titles. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Titles in red & black.
Ref. Choulant/Frank pp. 248-249. - Sondervorst, p. 130. - Blake 472. - Bibl. Med. Neerl. II:32. - Opac KBR. - This ed. not in BL, BnF, Wellcome, Waller, Garrison & Morton.
Prov. Wax seal on title.

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