Lot 463
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[Valverde de Hamusco, Juan de]
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
Vivae imagines partium corporis humani aereis formis expressae. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1572 [i.e.1579]. 4to, engraved architectural title by Pieter Huys after Lambert van Noort, 42 full-page anatomical engravings by Pieter and Franz Huys, woodcut historiated initials, later half calf, repairs to corners of title and first two leaves not affecting text, rebacked, library stamps
Footnote
Note: Adams V235; NLM 4536; Wellcome I 6481
Valverde's anatomical atlas was first published in Spanish in 1556. It was widely used, reprinted and translated though "nearly all the plates are copied from Vesalius and the text is plagiarised from the Fabrica" (Osler 576).
For his first Latin edition of 1566, Plantin hired the Dutch artists Pieter and Franz Huys to re-engrave the earlier plates. As in the NLM copy, the title-page of this edition is dated 1572 while the colophon indicates 1579.