Ioannis Riolani filii, origine et ordine Parisiensis, consiliarii medici regis et eiusdem in Academia Parisiensi anatomes & pharmaciae professoris, Anthropographia ; et Osteologia : omnia recognita, triplò auctiora & emendatiora ex proprijs ac nouis cogitationibus & obseruationibus : cum duplici indice.

Anthropographia et osteologia

Parisiis : Ex officine Dionysii Moreau ..., M. DC XXVI. [1626]

8 pages, 72 unnumbered pages, 938, that is, 946 pages, 64 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 4to (23 cm)

The second work has a special half title page with title: Osteologia novantiqua.

First work originally published: Parisiis : Ex officina Plantiniana : Apud H. Perier, 1618. 2nd work originally published: Parisiis : Ex officina Adriani Perier, 1614.

Numbers 242-245, 256-257 and 797-798 are omitted in pagination; no. 277-278 are repeated in pagination; alternate pages only between p. 581 and 587 are numbered, p. 587 itself repeated in pagination and followed in turn by two unnumbered leaves.

Signatures: A⁴ e⁴ i⁴ o⁴ u⁴ 1-4[daggers]⁴ 5[daggers]² A² (A2 blank); A-4D⁴ 4d⁴ 4[asterisks]² 4E-5S⁴ 5V-6K⁴ 6L-M²

Engravings: illustrated t.p. with title, Ioannis Riolani f. Anatomica (on leaf A1 recto); portrait of the author presenting his work to Louis XIII (on leaf A2 verso); bust of the author (on leaf 5daggers2 verso); initials.

"Typographiae errores" printed on p. [63]-[64] at end.

Copy 1. For variant see No. 6939. Author's presentation copy.

Copy 2. Identical with no. 5495 except that the epistle 'Au Roy' is omitted and on the verso of the t.p. is an engraving of the author presenting his work to Louis XIII. Cancels for V2-3 in sig4[asterisks] (before sig4E). 17th century autograph on flyleaf: Ex libris Joannis Gros Doctoris medici.

Copy 3. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Lacks portrait of bust of author. Binding: 17th century calf, blind tooled frames on boards, rebacked and repaired. Signature at top right of t.p.: 'Caroli Bernard Chir. Lond.' and inscription: 'cum notis marginalibus Doctoris Caroli Bernardi Chirurg. Regii et aliorum'. Later signature of H. Looker. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.