MONTAA DE MONSERRATE, Bernardino (ca. 1480-1551). Libro de la Anothomia del hombre . Valladolid: Sebastian Martinez, 2 November 1551. 2 o (279 x 191 mm). Collation: # 8 A-R 8 (#1r title, #1v privilege statement, #2r table, #8v errata, A1r author's dedication to Luys Hurtado de Mendoa, Marques de Mondejar, A2v text, Anothomia , K2r title to part 2, un coloquio del ... seor don Luys Hurtado de Mendoa ... con el doctor Bernaldino Montaa de Monserrate ... acerca del dicho sueo que soo su seoria de la generacion nascimiento y muerte del hombre , K2v text, part 2, R1v Figuras de la Anothomia , R8r colophon, R8v blank). 144 leaves. Gothic type, table, dedication and shoulder notes in roman, type-rule page borders, title printed in red and black with armorial woodcut, part 2 title within 4-part woodcut border, the lower block signed with the printer's initials, 12 three-quarter-page anatomical woodcuts, historiated 8-line and smaller ornamental initials. (Light foxing or browning to a few leaves, occasional mainly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary blind-tooled Spanish calf, sides panelled with a floral and heads-in-medallion roll, fleurons at angles (rubbed, corners and extremities of spine chipped); modern folding morocco-backed case. Provenance : Irving Davis (Sotheby's London, 2 April 1985, lot 487). FIRST EDITION of the first separately printed anatomical work in Spanish. Preceded only by Lobera de Avila's Libro de anatomia , an unillustrated section of his Remedio de cuerpos humanos [Alcal de Henares?, ca. 1542], Montaa de Monserrate's treatise was the first to introduce Vesalian anatomical iconography to Spanish readers. While the text derives from the medieval anatomical and surgical treatise of Henri de Mondeville, 9 of the 12 large woodcuts are reduced and simplified versions of cuts from either the Fabrica or the Epitome : these include three "musclemen", two cuts of the venous and arterial systems, two of the peripheral and central nervous systems, a figure showing the thoracic and genito-urinary organs based on a combination of Vesalian cuts, and a reversed copy of the first skeleton figure in the Fabrica . Two of the remaining woodcuts are skeletal depictions based on Berengario and Dryander, while the third, a crude representation of the thorax and abdominal organs, is apparently original. His text too shows some probable Vesalian influence: "Montaa did not write entirely within the Galenic-Arabic tradition, however: he presented several observations from life on the cardiac cycle, and he probably owed to Vesalius his knowledge of the function of the valves of the heart and the correct relationship of cardiac systole and diastole to the arterial pulse" (Norman). FINE COPY. Cushing (addenda) 598; NLM/Durling 2339; Waller 6647; Wellcome 4406; Norman 1540.
MONTAA DE MONSERRATE, Bernardino (ca. 1480-1551). Libro de la Anothomia del hombre . Valladolid: Sebastian Martinez, 2 November 1551. 2 o (279 x 191 mm). Collation: # 8 A-R 8 (#1r title, #1v privilege statement, #2r table, #8v errata, A1r author's dedication to Luys Hurtado de Mendoa, Marques de Mondejar, A2v text, Anothomia , K2r title to part 2, un coloquio del ... seor don Luys Hurtado de Mendoa ... con el doctor Bernaldino Montaa de Monserrate ... acerca del dicho sueo que soo su seoria de la generacion nascimiento y muerte del hombre , K2v text, part 2, R1v Figuras de la Anothomia , R8r colophon, R8v blank). 144 leaves. Gothic type, table, dedication and shoulder notes in roman, type-rule page borders, title printed in red and black with armorial woodcut, part 2 title within 4-part woodcut border, the lower block signed with the printer's initials, 12 three-quarter-page anatomical woodcuts, historiated 8-line and smaller ornamental initials. (Light foxing or browning to a few leaves, occasional mainly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary blind-tooled Spanish calf, sides panelled with a floral and heads-in-medallion roll, fleurons at angles (rubbed, corners and extremities of spine chipped); modern folding morocco-backed case. Provenance : Irving Davis (Sotheby's London, 2 April 1985, lot 487). FIRST EDITION of the first separately printed anatomical work in Spanish. Preceded only by Lobera de Avila's Libro de anatomia , an unillustrated section of his Remedio de cuerpos humanos [Alcal de Henares?, ca. 1542], Montaa de Monserrate's treatise was the first to introduce Vesalian anatomical iconography to Spanish readers. While the text derives from the medieval anatomical and surgical treatise of Henri de Mondeville, 9 of the 12 large woodcuts are reduced and simplified versions of cuts from either the Fabrica or the Epitome : these include three "musclemen", two cuts of the venous and arterial systems, two of the peripheral and central nervous systems, a figure showing the thoracic and genito-urinary organs based on a combination of Vesalian cuts, and a reversed copy of the first skeleton figure in the Fabrica . Two of the remaining woodcuts are skeletal depictions based on Berengario and Dryander, while the third, a crude representation of the thorax and abdominal organs, is apparently original. His text too shows some probable Vesalian influence: "Montaa did not write entirely within the Galenic-Arabic tradition, however: he presented several observations from life on the cardiac cycle, and he probably owed to Vesalius his knowledge of the function of the valves of the heart and the correct relationship of cardiac systole and diastole to the arterial pulse" (Norman). FINE COPY. Cushing (addenda) 598; NLM/Durling 2339; Waller 6647; Wellcome 4406; Norman 1540.
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