Famous Illustrated Anatomy Book Of The 17th Century

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ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ILLUSTRATED ANATOMY BOOKS OF THE 17th CENTURY PRINTED 1684: Original Work More than 325 Years Old. Handsomely Illustrated with 120 Copperplate Engravings

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Tomas Bartholin. Thomae Bartholini, archiatri Danici, Anatome quartum renovata: non tantum ex institutionibus b.m. parentis, Caspari Bartholini, sed etiam ex omnium cum veterum, tum recentiorum observationibus: ad circulationem harveianam, & vasa lymphatica directis. Cum iconibus novis et indicibus . Lugduni, Sumpt. Joan. Ant. Huguetan, & Soc., 1677 (frontis.), but Leiden: Marci & Joan. Henrici Huguetan, 1684. Engraved additional title, title vignette, portrait of the author, and 120 plates and illustrations (including 10 folding); 8vo.,20.5 x 14 cm., 2 p. l., [28], 807, [20] p. : illus., port., plates (part fold.) ; Full contemporary vellum binding with yapp edges, textblock separating, some browning and foxing as usual, but overall a very good, handsome, and complete copy.

This is a very fine edition of one of the most famous Anatomy textbooks of the 17th century. Thomas Bartholin, stands as perhaps the greatest anatomist of his time (1616 1680), a fame achieved by his teaching, but even more by his publishing. This illustrated work updates his father's equally famous Anatomicae instituiones corpori humani (1611), but incorporates Bartholin's important discoveries of the lymphatic system in humans. It also helped disseminate William Harvey's fundamental teachings on blood ciruclation. "Bartholin immediately recognized the significance of Marcello Malpighi's (1628 1694) work on the lungs, De pulmonibus (Bologna, 1661) not least because it provided the first account and illustration of the capillaries, the link between arteries and veins hypothesized by Harvey as a requirement for a systemic circulation of the blood."

The illustrations in this work are also important in the history of art and figure drawing. While not wholly original, being after Vesalius, Casserius, Vesling, Bauhin, Ruysch, and others, the copper engravings are of competent workmanship and merit, and certainly were far more accessible as an affordable textbook to students of the arts and painting than earlier and more costly tomes. Needless to say, the operating theatre of the frontispiece lacks the artistic serenity of Rembrandts famous Anatomy Lesson, with a smiling mocking skeleton, crude surgical tools etched into a wall fresco, and a writhing body, clutching his abdomen with one hand (though perhaps he is not meant to be a cadaver but rather a patient getting ready for a tourniquet and refrigeration anesthesia, which Bartholin was the first to describe scientifically.)