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Lot 379

[ANATOMY]. VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Octave musculorum...

Estimate: $600 - $800

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[ANATOMY]. VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Octave musculorum tabula [leaf extracted from: the 1543 first edition of ?De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem?]. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1543. ?The Fabrica, a handsomely printed folio, is remarkable for its series of magnificent plates, which set new technical standards of anatomical illustration, and indeed of book illustration in general. They have generally been ascribed to an artist of Titian's school... No other work of the sixteenth century equals it... It was translated, reissued, copied and plagiarized over and over again and its illustrations were used or copied in other medical works until the end of the eighteenth century? (PMM 71).