GEMINUS, Thomas. Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio , in Latin. London: John Herford, October 1545. 2° (380 x 283mm). 44 text leaves (without final blank, as Norman and Cushing). Engraved title and 39 engraved plates by Geminus after Vesalius (of 40, lacking one of the muscular engravings - the twelfth in the series of sixteen). (Title browned, trimmed and mounted, some plates with repaired margins, including the 'Adam and Eve' plate which is trimmed in the right margin with some loss to Eve's hand and arm and with some early pen-and-ink facsimile to her hip and arm, some marginal soiling, some dampstaining, a few small repairs.) 18th-century vellum, titled in gilt on the spine (browned, some light worming on the spine). Provenance : an early reader (inscription and brief cancellation on the dedication leaf commenting on blasphemous text, foliation, and light marginalia).
GEMINUS, Thomas. Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio , in Latin. London: John Herford, October 1545. 2° (380 x 283mm). 44 text leaves (without final blank, as Norman and Cushing). Engraved title and 39 engraved plates by Geminus after Vesalius (of 40, lacking one of the muscular engravings - the twelfth in the series of sixteen). (Title browned, trimmed and mounted, some plates with repaired margins, including the 'Adam and Eve' plate which is trimmed in the right margin with some loss to Eve's hand and arm and with some early pen-and-ink facsimile to her hip and arm, some marginal soiling, some dampstaining, a few small repairs.) 18th-century vellum, titled in gilt on the spine (browned, some light worming on the spine). Provenance : an early reader (inscription and brief cancellation on the dedication leaf commenting on blasphemous text, foliation, and light marginalia). FIRST EDITION of Geminus's abridgement of Vesalius, and the earliest substantial use of engraving in any medical book. It is only the second work printed in England with engraved plates; the first, Thomas Raynalde's 1540 Byrth of mankinde , contained just four small, unsigned engravings. 'The new medium of copperplate engraving used by Geminus allowed a sharpness of line impossible for the wood engravers employed by Vesalius. This is in fact the first medical book illustrated with a suite of full-page engraved plates. The title-page was called by Hind "the first engraving of any artistic importance produced in England". The book provided a summary view of Vesalius's discoveries more complete than the Epitome but without the size and expense of the Fabrica ' (Garrison-Morton). Choulant-Frank pp. 192-194; Cushing VI.C.-2; Garrison-Morton 376.1; NLM/Durling 2039; Norman 886; STC 11714; Stillwell Science 645; Wellcome 2731.
GEMINUS, Thomas. Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio , in Latin. London: John Herford, October 1545. 2° (380 x 283mm). 44 text leaves (without final blank, as Norman and Cushing). Engraved title and 39 engraved plates by Geminus after Vesalius (of 40, lacking one of the muscular engravings - the twelfth in the series of sixteen). (Title browned, trimmed and mounted, some plates with repaired margins, including the 'Adam and Eve' plate which is trimmed in the right margin with some loss to Eve's hand and arm and with some early pen-and-ink facsimile to her hip and arm, some marginal soiling, some dampstaining, a few small repairs.) 18th-century vellum, titled in gilt on the spine (browned, some light worming on the spine). Provenance : an early reader (inscription and brief cancellation on the dedication leaf commenting on blasphemous text, foliation, and light marginalia).
GEMINUS, Thomas. Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio , in Latin. London: John Herford, October 1545. 2° (380 x 283mm). 44 text leaves (without final blank, as Norman and Cushing). Engraved title and 39 engraved plates by Geminus after Vesalius (of 40, lacking one of the muscular engravings - the twelfth in the series of sixteen). (Title browned, trimmed and mounted, some plates with repaired margins, including the 'Adam and Eve' plate which is trimmed in the right margin with some loss to Eve's hand and arm and with some early pen-and-ink facsimile to her hip and arm, some marginal soiling, some dampstaining, a few small repairs.) 18th-century vellum, titled in gilt on the spine (browned, some light worming on the spine). Provenance : an early reader (inscription and brief cancellation on the dedication leaf commenting on blasphemous text, foliation, and light marginalia). FIRST EDITION of Geminus's abridgement of Vesalius, and the earliest substantial use of engraving in any medical book. It is only the second work printed in England with engraved plates; the first, Thomas Raynalde's 1540 Byrth of mankinde , contained just four small, unsigned engravings. 'The new medium of copperplate engraving used by Geminus allowed a sharpness of line impossible for the wood engravers employed by Vesalius. This is in fact the first medical book illustrated with a suite of full-page engraved plates. The title-page was called by Hind "the first engraving of any artistic importance produced in England". The book provided a summary view of Vesalius's discoveries more complete than the Epitome but without the size and expense of the Fabrica ' (Garrison-Morton). Choulant-Frank pp. 192-194; Cushing VI.C.-2; Garrison-Morton 376.1; NLM/Durling 2039; Norman 886; STC 11714; Stillwell Science 645; Wellcome 2731.
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