[Anatomy] Corporis Humani Anatomiae Liber Primus

In quo tam veterum, quam recentiorum anatomicorum inventa. Methodo nova & intellectu facillima describuntur, ac tabulis aeneis repraesentantur. Authore Philippo Verheyen. Ed. Sec. Bruxellis. Fratres t'Serstevens. 1710; bound together with: Supplementum Anatomicum, Idem. 1710.

Small 4to, leather, illustrated frontispiece with i.a. the portrait of the author by P. Devel, 2x title in red and black with printer's mark, headpiece, (28),400,XV,428 pp. + Index and 4 pp. medical book catalogue. Various vignettes. Complete with 46 mostly folding copperplates (counting the frontispiece, see index tabulae; plate 3 of the supplement misplaced). Spine and boards with damage, ex libris, front endpaper with annotations loose, water stains front and back. Engravings in good condition. Philip Verheyen was a Flemish surgeon. After an earlier amputation at Leiden, he is said to have carefully dissected his own preserved leg, for his research into phantom pain. For decades, Verheyen's Corporis Humani Anatomia was used at several, mainly Italian and German universities, to great irritation of other famed anatomists such as Morgagni in Italy and Heister in Germany.