PLATTER, Felix (1536-1614). De corporis humani structura et usu . [Basel]: Ex officina Frobeniana, per Ambrosium Frob[enium], 1583. 2 o (267 x 190 mm). Woodcut publisher's devices on title, BB4v (large device), and on separate title of the Liber tertius , 50 engraved plates. (One plate with pigment stain, another slightly browned, a few with marginal dampstains, title lightly browned with lower fore-corner chipped and a few light stains, occasional light browning and spotting.) 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (some splitting to joints and wear). Provenance : Faint early signature on title-page; William Gordon (1800-1849), Edinburgh M.D., physician at Hull, and subject of Newman Hall's 'Christian Philanthropist triumphing over Death,' 1849 (signature and notes on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of "Platter's first book ... designed primarily for the student... All but two of the plates are after Vesalius' illustrations in the Fabrica , Platter freely acknowledges the superiority of Vesalius' work and, at the beginning of Liber tertius, describes how he, Platter, found it necessary to have them re-engraved to fit the format of his book" ( Heirs of Hippocrates ). Choulant-Frank, p. 216; Heirs of Hippocrates 372; NLM/Durling 3683; Waller 7504; Wellcome 5084.
PLATTER, Felix (1536-1614). De corporis humani structura et usu . [Basel]: Ex officina Frobeniana, per Ambrosium Frob[enium], 1583. 2 o (267 x 190 mm). Woodcut publisher's devices on title, BB4v (large device), and on separate title of the Liber tertius , 50 engraved plates. (One plate with pigment stain, another slightly browned, a few with marginal dampstains, title lightly browned with lower fore-corner chipped and a few light stains, occasional light browning and spotting.) 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (some splitting to joints and wear). Provenance : Faint early signature on title-page; William Gordon (1800-1849), Edinburgh M.D., physician at Hull, and subject of Newman Hall's 'Christian Philanthropist triumphing over Death,' 1849 (signature and notes on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of "Platter's first book ... designed primarily for the student... All but two of the plates are after Vesalius' illustrations in the Fabrica , Platter freely acknowledges the superiority of Vesalius' work and, at the beginning of Liber tertius, describes how he, Platter, found it necessary to have them re-engraved to fit the format of his book" ( Heirs of Hippocrates ). Choulant-Frank, p. 216; Heirs of Hippocrates 372; NLM/Durling 3683; Waller 7504; Wellcome 5084.
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