Hieronymi Fabricii ab Aquapendente ... Opera anatomica. De formatu foetu. De formatione ovi & pulli. De locutione, & eius instrumentis. De brutorum loquela. Cum indicibus capitum et rerum notatu dignarum.... Et figuris aeneis / [Fabricius].

Opera anatomica

Patavii : Sumptibus Antonij Meglietti, 1625.

2 unnumbered pages, 150 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 68 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 27 pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 27 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm (folio mostly in fours)

Signatures: *p+1 *A-E+4 *F-K+2 *2K+2 *L-O+2* P+4*Q+2 *R-Z+4 *2A+2*; +3*A-H+4 *I+2 *[chi]1; +4*A-D+4*; +5*A-C+4*D+4*(-D4, blank?). 2K2 recto duplicates K2 recto but has the correct leaf pasted over the duplication.

[4] leaves of plates inserted at end of De formatione ovi & pulli.

Howard B. Adelmann, The embryological treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (Ithaca, New York, 1942) states that the copies of the Opera anatomica seen by him "vary in the presence or absence of the separate title-pages and subsidiary matter, but a study of them leaves no doubt that these are the original folio printings of the constituent treatises, the completeness with which they are represented depending no doubt upon the supply of separate title-pages and dedicatory and errata leaves available when the volumes were assembled for sale". This is apparently also the case for the collection Opera physica anatomica published by Robert Meglietti in Padua in the same year, including a fifth part De venarum ostiolis [23 p.].

Copy 2. Armorial bookplate of Sir George Shuckburgh, Baronet. Manuscript presentation inscription on front pastedown: 'Presented to the library of the Charing Cross Hospital by E. Canton. March 1878.' Library label of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School.