FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE (HIERONYMUS). C.1533-1619.
Opera chirurgica. Padua: Matteo Cadorin, 1666.
Opera chirurgica. Padua: Matteo Cadorin, 1666.
Folio (303 x 219 mm). 9 engraved plates. Modern half vellum and boards. Browning, some dampstaining, lower corners repaired through first half. Krivatsy NLM 3810; Waller 2890
WITH: Opera omnia anatomica et physiologica. Leiden: J. van Kerckhem, 1738. Folio (315 x 199 mm). Title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait, 61 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Upper joint cracked, scattered browning and spotting. Krivatsy, 3803; Wellcome III, p 4.
Provenance: John F. Fulton (bookplate).
Two later editions of works by Fabricius (also known as Girolamo Fabrizi d'Acquapendente), a pupil of Fallopio at Padua and one of William Harvey's teachers. He designed the first permanent dissection theater to instruct his students, and wrote the first public description of tracheotomy.
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Opera chirurgica. Padua: Matteo Cadorin, 1666.
Opera chirurgica. Padua: Matteo Cadorin, 1666.
Folio (303 x 219 mm). 9 engraved plates. Modern half vellum and boards. Browning, some dampstaining, lower corners repaired through first half. Krivatsy NLM 3810; Waller 2890
WITH: Opera omnia anatomica et physiologica. Leiden: J. van Kerckhem, 1738. Folio (315 x 199 mm). Title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait, 61 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Upper joint cracked, scattered browning and spotting. Krivatsy, 3803; Wellcome III, p 4.
Provenance: John F. Fulton (bookplate).
Two later editions of works by Fabricius (also known as Girolamo Fabrizi d'Acquapendente), a pupil of Fallopio at Padua and one of William Harvey's teachers. He designed the first permanent dissection theater to instruct his students, and wrote the first public description of tracheotomy.