Lot 269
Blaes, Gerard
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
£500
Description
Anatome animalium. Amsterdam: Johannes van Someren, 1681. First edition, 4to, engraved title by Jan Luyken, 65 engraved plates, library stamps, contemporary ink notes to front endpapers, waterstaining to upper edge, contemporary calf, worn, boards loose
Footnote
Note: Wellcome II p.179.
First edition of the first comparative manual of comparative anatomy based on the original studies of a working anatomist (cf. Haskell F. Norman, 1998, lot 297).