Tabulae Anatomicae by Bartolomeo Eustachius Medicina Rara 1714 Edition Facsimile Illustrated Qtr Leather Limited Edition Folio 1975

Tabulae Anatomicae by Bartolomeo Eustachius Medicina Rara 1714 Edition Facsimile Illustrated Qtr Leather Limited Edition Folio 1975

<Condition is Very Good as Pictured> (normal wear, some markings, spine is sunned/faded, light edge-wear) Size is approximately 10” X 14.5”

Copy number #1163 of 2300 copies bound in quarter-leather. Facsimile reprint of the original 1714 edition with 47 Full Page Plates in Original Slipcase.

—Bartolomeo Eustachius (circa 1510/20-1574) completed the plates in 1554. Less stylized than those of his contemporary and antagonist Vesalius, his anatomical illustrations are remarkably accurate despite his support of the old Galenic theories of anatomy. The copper plates remained unpublished in his lifetime and were rediscovered by Giovanni Maria Lancisi, the papal physician, who published them with his own commentaries in 1714. Garrison-Morton 391 (the 1714 edition, but the lengthy note includes the following comment: 'These copperplates are more accurate than the work of Vesalius. Singer was of the opinion that had they appeared in 1552 Eustachius would have ranked with Vesalius as one of the founders of modern anatomy.

Text wholly in Latin, a deep, sharp, satisfying bite of the font to the brilliant special-made paper of Papierfabrik Scheufelen, Oberlenningen, West Germany. Illustrations are each numbered in Roman numerals and in full-page format, and with full-page legend opposite, detailing each of the numbered parts of anatomy depicted herein, from heart valves to limbic arteries, musculature to facial expressions, blood to organs, tissue to muscles. The author, Bartolomeo Eustachii (c. 1500-1510 - 1574) was an Italian anatomist and is said to be one of the Holy Trinity of the science of human anatomy and physiology (Eustachius, Vesalius and the "other" Columbus) and whose founders disagreed mightily on both empirical and ideal-philosophical conceptions of the body including Aristotle, Galen, Fallopius, and other giants. Ione writes, "As noted, the Egyptian, Biblical, and early Greek thinkers largely assigned cognition and sensation to the heart, rather than the brain" (Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2010). Somewhat strangely, for Eustachius, though an empiricist, his illustrations based on dissections of cadavers that took place on an anatomy table. Whereas the figures of Vesalius "attempt to copy the natural appearance of anatomical structures," says K.B. Roberts, "Eustachius' figures are maps of human anatomy . . . " Eustachius is most famous for revealing the vena caval ("Eustachian valve") and the thoracic canal, for theorizing the difference between healthy and disease-altere.

Tabulae Anatomicae clarissimi viri Bartholomaei Eustachii ...
-Editions Medicina Rara, [Circa 1975]/ 1714.
-Large Folio Size, xliv, 131 pages plus a frontispiece and 47 full-page plates.
—Quarter gilt-lettered red leather and black papered boards; covers a little sunned/faded on spine; a very good copy in the original sturdy slipcase (slightly bumped and rubbed).

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