Lot 418

Paaw, Petrus







Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 May 2011 at 12:00 BST
£1,750
Description
Succenturiatus anatomicus... Leiden: J. a Colster, 1616. 4to, 2 parts in one volume, [24], 270; [2], 128, title in red and black, portrait, 3 folding plates, engraved illustrations in text, library stamps, ink marginalia, contemporary vellum, later labels [removed], plate of anatomical theatre torn [no loss], contemporary ink inscription on front endpaper
Footnote
Note: Wellcome Library 14297065.
First edition of Paaw's commentary on the books of Hippocrates and Celsus on wounds of the head. The first folding plate, engraved by Andries Jacobsz Stock after Jacob de Gheyn, depicts Paaw giving an anatomy lesson in the anatomical theatre at Leiden.






