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LOT 530
SOLD €600,00

[Anatomy. S. Blankaart] De Nieuw-Hervormde Anatomia,

Ofte ontleding des Menschen Lighaams. Gebouwd op de waaragtigste en naukeurigste ondervinding deser eeuw (...) Als ook een verhandelinge van het Balsemen der Lighamen. Steven Blankaart. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1696.

New halfvellum binding, large 8vo, portrait of author Steven Blankaart by D. v. Plas, illustrated frontispiece in copper engraving (of the Anatomical Theatre in Leiden), title with printer's mark in woodcut, (10),761,(16),(2) pp. and 84 full-page copper engravings [I-LXVII, A-H and AA-II]. The third edition of this often-reprinted, finely illustrated treatise on human anatomy. The frontispiece depicts a cutting session at the famous Leiden anatomical theatre, with the skeletons actually belonging to the summer set-up, when no cutting took place due to the heat. The last 2 pages contain an interesting catalogue of all medical books available at Ten Hoorn.

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