Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 288

ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) Zergliederung dess menschlichen Cörpers. Gedruckt und verlegt durch Andreas Maschenbauer 1706 [32] pp., 14 plates, illus. 41.8 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 280

After publication of the second edition of the Fabrica (see No. 281), the whereabouts of the wood blocks were unknown until Andreas Maschenbauer, an Augsburg printer and publisher, used nineteen of them in the present work. The book was intended for painters or engravers and Maschenbauer attributed the illustrations to Titian rather than van Calcar and selected only those that pertained to the body's surface anatomy. The wood blocks came from both the first edition of the Fabrica (see No. 281) and the Epitome (see No. 291). Skeletal and muscle figures along with several depictions of the skull were included from the Fabrica as were the "Adam and Eve" figures from the Epitome.

See Related Record(s): 281 291

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 184; Cushing V87; Cushing Vesalius VI.A.-12; Osler 572 (1723 ed.); Waller 9905

Gift of John Martin, M.D.