Accession number
PML 24798
Creator
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564.
Published
Basileae : Ex officina Ioannis Oporini, 1543.
Notes
The illustrations are from designs attributed to Jean de Calcar, a pupil of Titian.
Printer's mark at end.
Imprint from colophon.
First ed.
Woodcuts: The t.p. is by J.S. Calcar, a pupil of Titian; port. of the author dated 1542 on f6[superscript]b; many illustrations in the text, and 14 full-page anatomical cuts, those on 1f O[superscript]4 + O[superscript]3 showing a skeleton as grave digger & contemplating a skull on a monument are suggested as having been in Shakespeare's mind when writing "Hamlet."
Publisher and date from colophon.
Numbers 658-659 repeated in paging.
Title-page is illustrated.
Printer's mark at end.
Imprint from colophon.
First ed.
Woodcuts: The t.p. is by J.S. Calcar, a pupil of Titian; port. of the author dated 1542 on f6[superscript]b; many illustrations in the text, and 14 full-page anatomical cuts, those on 1f O[superscript]4 + O[superscript]3 showing a skeleton as grave digger & contemplating a skull on a monument are suggested as having been in Shakespeare's mind when writing "Hamlet."
Publisher and date from colophon.
Numbers 658-659 repeated in paging.
Title-page is illustrated.
Description
[10], 659 [i.e. 663], [37] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., port. ; 44 cm.
Binding
Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards. 2 clasps, 1 missing.
Classification
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Department