Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 318

JUAN DE VALVERDE (fl. 1560) Vivae imagines partium corporis humani, aereis formis expressae. Ex officina Christophori Plantini 1572 171 (misnumbered 172) [4] pp., 42 plates. 27.9 cm.

Valverde studied at Padua as a pupil of Realdo Colombo (see No. 304 ff.) and became the leading Spanish anatomist of his time. His anatomical atlas was first published in 1556 in Spanish and was widely used, reprinted, and translated for the next hundred years. "Nearly all the plates are copied from Vesalius and Valverde's text is plagiarized from the Fabrica" (Osler 576). Even so, the plates have some distinctive features of their own and the engraved title page depicting Adam and Eve on either side of the imprint is attractive. This Latin edition, with the forty-two plates, was published by the Plantin press and is unusual in that, although the title page dates it as 1572, the colophon indicates 1579.

See Related Record(s): 304

Cited references: Cushing Vesalius VI.D.-45; Durling 4536; Waller 9808; Wellcome 6481

Gift of John Martin, M.D.