VESLING, Johannes (1598-1649). Syntagma anatomicum, Padua: typis Pauli Frambotti, 1647, 4°, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, engraved additional title (lightly soiled and rubbed, ink stamp on upper margin), 24 engraved plates, some folding (title perforated, accession no. on *3, worming, mainly marginal but affecting 3 plates), library cloth. [Choulant/Frank p. 243; Krivatsy 12328; Waller 9931] Provenance: Mortimer Frank (bookplate)

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VESLING, Johannes (1598-1649). Syntagma anatomicum, Padua: typis Pauli Frambotti, 1647, 4°, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, engraved additional title (lightly soiled and rubbed, ink stamp on upper margin), 24 engraved plates, some folding (title perforated, accession no. on *3, worming, mainly marginal but affecting 3 plates), library cloth. [Choulant/Frank p. 243; Krivatsy 12328; Waller 9931] Provenance: Mortimer Frank (bookplate)

拍品专文

This work was first published in octavo format and without plates, in 1641 and became a much reprinted standard text-book. Vesling was professor of anatomy at Padua and he demonstrated the lacteals on the human cadaver and studied the thoracic duct.