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Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
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[MEDICINE]. VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Icones anatomicae. Munich: The Bremer Press for the New York Academy of Medicine and the University of Munich Library, 1934-1935.
Folio. Plates with illustrations from Vesalius's 1543 Fabrica printed from the original woodblocks; 2 folding plates reproducing designs for the original title page. Original publisher's half pigskin and boards by Frieda Thiersch, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered.
LIMITED EDITION, number 304 of 615 copies printed by the Bremer Press. All but 50 of the illustrations were printed from the original woodblocks, which were held by the library at the University of Munich; the blocks were destroyed during World War II.