Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano.

Juan VALVERDE DE AMUSCO (Author)

Antonio Salamanca (Printer)

Antonio Lafreri (Printer)

Origin: Rome, XVI c.
Biblioteca Histórico-médica del Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Históricos sobre la Ciencia de la Universitat de València - CSIC.

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D-44bis
Facsimile. Old Books. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.
84-87988-48-2
978-84-87988-48-6
Folio
20 x 29 cm.
177+4 crd.
354+8 crd.
Spanish.
1556.
7th February 1998.
3000+80+50+30
Parchment on wooden board.
Anathomy.
Presentation dust jacket cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile.
Numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.
Specially made laid paper.
Optional: Study in Spanish: by José María López Piñero (Former Head of the Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Históricos de la Ciencia of the Universitat de València, CSIC). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua V.
Facsimile completed with sheets 1 v, 2M6 r, 2M6 v, 2P4 r, 2P4 v, cl r, cl v, c4 r, from copy 611 v 29j from the Biblioteca de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Complutense University).

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Synopsis:

The work of Valverde was the text which most contributed, due to the fact of its 16 editions in four languages, to spreading the new anatomy throughout Europe following the reform headed by Andreas Vesalius. It was the first morphological book illustrated with traced prints.

It includes 42 illustrations, some replicas of those by Vesalius and other originals, which as a whole offer important scientific innovation. Its drawing has been attributed to Gaspar Becerra who, in any case, appears to be the author of the famous print of the "muscular man", whose state is clearly influenced by Michael Angelo.

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AC History of art / art & design styles
ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
ACND Renaissance art
AFF Drawing & drawings
AFH Prints & printmaking
AFJ Other graphic art forms
AFT Decorative arts
AGH Human figures depicted in art
DNF Literary essays
DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
HBJD European history
HBLH Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
MB Medicine: general issues
MBX History of medicine
MFC Anatomy
PDX History of science
WCS Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter

1D Europe
1DSE Spain
1DSET Valenciana, Autonomous Community
1DST Italy
2ADS Spanish
3JB c 1500 to c 1600