Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis Icones anatomicae / ediderunt Academia medicinae nova-eboracensis et Bibliotheca Universitatis monacensis.

[Monachis] : [ex officina Bremensi], [1934]

130, xiii, 5 unnumbered pages, plates : illustrations, portrait ; 56 cm.

The figures, most of which are reproductions from the original blocks preserved in the library of the University of Munich, are now generally conceded to have been drawn by Jan Stephan van Calcar. The text (reprinted from the Fabrica, 1555, 1543 and the Epitome, 1543) explains the symbols used in the wood blocks, and therefore forms an index of the illustrations and their symbols

" Emissa sunt sescenta quindecim exemplaria numeris 1-615 notata ... Praeterea impressa sunt exemplaria centum decem quae continent figuras solas neque Characterum indices. Haec exemplaria ... signantur I-CX. Hoc exemplar habet numerum 30"

"The final edition of the Fabrica and Epitome printed from the original Vesalian woodblocks, which were subsequently destroyed in the bombing of Munich in 1943. Ironically, because of the remarkable durability of woodblocks and the superb craftsmanship of the Bremer Press, the impressions here in this last original edition are probably finer than those first taken nearly 400 years before. It stands alone as the foremost production of a scientific book by a modern press. The edition was limited to 615 numbered copies with text and 110 others without text. The publication of the Icones Anatomicae was planned by the New York Academy of Medicine together with the Library of the University of Munich where the woodblocks had been preserved. Of the 277 illustrations reproduced in the work, 227 are from the original blocks, with the remaining 50 being reproduced photographically. No changes were made in any of the blocks, and they were reproduced just as they were, and printed on fine, thick, handmade, watermarked paper. The only exception was a block from the Epitome which had to be restored to supply a hand which had been damaged on the original block. The previous use of the original woodblocks had been over 150 years before, in the version edited by Heinrich Palmaz Leveling in 1783

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Edwin V. Glaser

Tituli editionum Historiae de humani corporis fabrica Andreae Vesalii.-- Andreae Vesalii De humani corporis fabrica libri septem; tabulae libri primi[-septimi]-- Andreae Vesalii Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome; tabulae.-- Andreae Vesalii Epistola docens venam axillarem dextri cubiti in dolore laterali secandam; tabula ad editionem simulata anni MDXXXIX.-- Andreae Vesalii Tabulae anatomicae ad editionem anni MDXXXVIII simulatae.-- Delineationes tres tituli Historiae de humani corporis fabrica Andreae Vesalii.-- Index tabularum.-- Ad lectorem (Latin and English)