.jpg?maxwidth=3840)
Lot 98
VALVERDE de Hamusco, Juan (ca 1525-ca 1588). Anatomia del corpo humano. Translated by Antonio Tabo. Rome: printed in Venice by Niccolo Bevilacqua for Antonio Salamanca and Antoine Lafrry, 1560.
Closed7 December 2012
Price Realised
USD 4,750
More Information
VALVERDE de Hamusco, Juan (ca 1525-ca 1588). Anatomia del corpo humano. Translated by Antonio Tabo. Rome: printed in Venice by Niccolo Bevilacqua for Antonio Salamanca and Antoine Lafrry, 1560.
2o (303 x 202 mm). Engraved title and 42 full-page engraved illustrations attributed to Gaspar Becerra and engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet, 5 small marginal woodcuts. (Some minor ink spotting to title-page, occasional pale spotting or dampstaining, minor marginal soiling.) 18th-century vellum (a little wear to spine ends and corners); buckram folding case. Provenance: Angelo Gargani (early signatures on a2 and at register at end).
FIRST EDITION of the Italian translation, RARE FIRST ISSUE, with the title-page dated 1559 (second issue has title-page date changed to 1560). "Basically, Valverde's forty-two plates are reduced, engraved copies of the originals in Vesalius; of these, fifteen are paraphrases, cannibalizations, or new inventions. The designs were drawn by Gaspar Becerra (1520?-68?) and engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet (c. 1507?-70?), a French artisan working in Michelangelo's circle in Rome as Nicola Beatricetto" (Rifkin/Ackerman, Human Anatomy [From the Renaissance to the Digital Age], New York, 2006, pp.27-28).
Valverde was keen to issue an Italian translation of his work to prove to a wider audience that the text was his own and not merely a version of that of Vesalius: his justification for using copies (engraved, reduced and reversed versions) of Vesalius' woodcuts was that they enabled him to more clearly demonstrate the differences in their two theories. EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no copies of the first issue have appeared at auction in at least thirty years. Brunet V:1068; Choulant, pp. 205-08; Mortimer Italian 513 (title in second state); NLM/Durling 4532 (title in second state).
2o (303 x 202 mm). Engraved title and 42 full-page engraved illustrations attributed to Gaspar Becerra and engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet, 5 small marginal woodcuts. (Some minor ink spotting to title-page, occasional pale spotting or dampstaining, minor marginal soiling.) 18th-century vellum (a little wear to spine ends and corners); buckram folding case. Provenance: Angelo Gargani (early signatures on a2 and at register at end).
FIRST EDITION of the Italian translation, RARE FIRST ISSUE, with the title-page dated 1559 (second issue has title-page date changed to 1560). "Basically, Valverde's forty-two plates are reduced, engraved copies of the originals in Vesalius; of these, fifteen are paraphrases, cannibalizations, or new inventions. The designs were drawn by Gaspar Becerra (1520?-68?) and engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet (c. 1507?-70?), a French artisan working in Michelangelo's circle in Rome as Nicola Beatricetto" (Rifkin/Ackerman, Human Anatomy [From the Renaissance to the Digital Age], New York, 2006, pp.27-28).
Valverde was keen to issue an Italian translation of his work to prove to a wider audience that the text was his own and not merely a version of that of Vesalius: his justification for using copies (engraved, reduced and reversed versions) of Vesalius' woodcuts was that they enabled him to more clearly demonstrate the differences in their two theories. EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no copies of the first issue have appeared at auction in at least thirty years. Brunet V:1068; Choulant, pp. 205-08; Mortimer Italian 513 (title in second state); NLM/Durling 4532 (title in second state).
VALVERDE de Hamusco, Juan (ca 1525-ca 1588). Anatomia del corpo humano. Translated by Antonio Tabo. Rome: printed in Venice by Niccolo Bevilacqua for Antonio Salamanca and Antoine Lafrry, 1560.
2o (303 x 202 mm). Engraved title and 42 full-page engraved illustrations attributed to Gaspar Becerra and engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet, 5 small marginal woodcuts. (Some minor ink spotting to title-page, occasional pale spotting or dampstaining, minor marginal soiling.) 18th-century vellum (a little wear to spine ends and corners); buckram folding case. Provenance: Angelo Gargani (early signatures on a2 and at register at end).
FIRST EDITION of the Italian translation, RARE FIRST ISSUE, with the title-page dated 1559 (second issue has title-page date changed to 1560). "Basically, Valverde's forty-two plates are reduced, engraved copies of the originals in Vesalius; of these, fifteen are paraphrases, cannibalizations, or new inventions. The designs were drawn by Gaspar Becerra (1520?-68?) and engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet (c. 1507?-70?), a French artisan working in Michelangelo's circle in Rome as Nicola Beatricetto" (Rifkin/Ackerman, Human Anatomy [From the Renaissance to the Digital Age], New York, 2006, pp.27-28).
Valverde was keen to issue an Italian translation of his work to prove to a wider audience that the text was his own and not merely a version of that of Vesalius: his justification for using copies (engraved, reduced and reversed versions) of Vesalius' woodcuts was that they enabled him to more clearly demonstrate the differences in their two theories. EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no copies of the first issue have appeared at auction in at least thirty years. Brunet V:1068; Choulant, pp. 205-08; Mortimer Italian 513 (title in second state); NLM/Durling 4532 (title in second state).
2o (303 x 202 mm). Engraved title and 42 full-page engraved illustrations attributed to Gaspar Becerra and engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet, 5 small marginal woodcuts. (Some minor ink spotting to title-page, occasional pale spotting or dampstaining, minor marginal soiling.) 18th-century vellum (a little wear to spine ends and corners); buckram folding case. Provenance: Angelo Gargani (early signatures on a2 and at register at end).
FIRST EDITION of the Italian translation, RARE FIRST ISSUE, with the title-page dated 1559 (second issue has title-page date changed to 1560). "Basically, Valverde's forty-two plates are reduced, engraved copies of the originals in Vesalius; of these, fifteen are paraphrases, cannibalizations, or new inventions. The designs were drawn by Gaspar Becerra (1520?-68?) and engraved by Nicolas Beatrizet (c. 1507?-70?), a French artisan working in Michelangelo's circle in Rome as Nicola Beatricetto" (Rifkin/Ackerman, Human Anatomy [From the Renaissance to the Digital Age], New York, 2006, pp.27-28).
Valverde was keen to issue an Italian translation of his work to prove to a wider audience that the text was his own and not merely a version of that of Vesalius: his justification for using copies (engraved, reduced and reversed versions) of Vesalius' woodcuts was that they enabled him to more clearly demonstrate the differences in their two theories. EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no copies of the first issue have appeared at auction in at least thirty years. Brunet V:1068; Choulant, pp. 205-08; Mortimer Italian 513 (title in second state); NLM/Durling 4532 (title in second state).