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about drugs to use to avoid surgery and the last “De rhemediis [...] in Galeni libros” is a
summary of remedies extracted from Galenus (129-c. 200/216). Houllier became professor
of medicine in 1538 and collaborator of Jean Tagault (+ 1560) who asked him in 1543 to
complete his “Institutiones chirurgicae”. He was also dean of the Medicine Faculty in
1546 and 1547 and was the teacher a.o. of Louis Duret. Printer’s mark on the title-page.
Work first published in 1571.
# Durling 2484; # Éloy II-568/569 # USTC 170386; # not in Adams, Soltész, STC French,
Machiels, Bibl. Walleriana, Garrisson & Morton, Wellcome.
¶ Collection de traités du médecin Houllier, recteur de la Faculté de médecine, édité par Valet. Plein
parchemin souple de l’ép. (parties III et IV inversées, mouill., lég. bruni, certains ff. plus fortement).
290 – (Science, Médecine) -
VESALIUS, Andreas.- De humani corporis fabrica
libri septem.
Basileae, per Joannem Oporinum (ex officina Joannis Oporini, 1555 mense augusto).
In-f° : [12]-824-[48] pp.; 2 plates (tears, margins or corners repaired, restorations mostly marginal except
two in the engr. title with small lacks and in the pl. p. 504 without loss, one fold of pl. p. 554 reinforced, small
marginal tears not repaired and hole in p. 210 without lack, marginal dampstains, one larger with mould at p.
213, numerous small foxing on pp. 233-245, rare ink stains, some mould in the margins, pp. 568-569 stuck
together and the detachment of them caused a tear in p. 568, p. 699 remounted, marginal handwritten notes
at the dedication).
17
th
Century binding : vellum on wooden boards, blind decorated boards with fillets and central fleuron in
lozenge, ribbed spine with blind fillets, brown edges (soiled, restorations at the edges, corners, joint, turn ins
and in a raised band, clasps lacking, scratches, wormhole on the upper board, flyleaves renewed with some
tears repaired). Under case (rubbed on the edges).
Est.
:
12.000/ 15.000 €
Third edition, and second in-f° edition, enlarged and
offering Vesalius’ final revisions of the text of this
most influential work. Copy with wide margins in an
elegant typography,
splendidly illustrated
, mostly
from the original blocks after Titian, Jan Stephen Van
Calcar, Giovanni Britto, Domenico Campagnola...
with : an engraved title figuring an anatomical lecture
of Vesalius followed by a large crowd,- the portrait of
the physicist,- 2 folding plates,- more than 200 woodcut
illustrations in the text including 20 figuring full
skelettons or human bodies (depicting the nerves,
muscles and veins),- numerous initial letters, some
large, nicely and richly decorated with medical
scenes with children,- and Oporinus’ device with the
motto “Invia virtuti nulla est via” picturing Arion up on
a dolphin, mark suggested by Vesalius himself and
continued to use by the Swiss printer.
This famous work, first published in 1543, marked a
turning point in medicine history as for the first time
the anatomy was studied by dissecting human bodies.
Before Vesalius, the authority in anatomy was Galen
(c. 129-c. 200/216) but his descriptions were based on
animal dissections as the human ones were forbidden
by the Roman law. Still by the time Vesalius was
studying in the 1530s, the human dissections were not