Mikrokosmographia : a description of the body of man. Together vvith the controuersies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius. By Helkiah Crooke Doctor of Physicke, physitian to His Maiestie, and his Highnesse professor in anatomy and chyrurgerie. Published by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant according to the first integrity, as it was originally written by the author.
- Crooke, Helkiah, 1576-1648
- Date:
- 1615
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Also known as
Description of the body of man.
Publication/Creation
[London] : Printed by William Iaggard dwelling in Barbican, and are there to be sold, 1615.
Physical description
20 unnumbered pages, 877, 888-1111 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 6062.
Notes
First word of title in Greek characters.
The chief sources are "De corporis humani fabrica" by Caspar Bauhin and "Historia anatomica humani corporis" by Henri-Joseph Du Laurens.
The first leaf is blank; the last leaf bears a printer's note.
The title page is a cancel, verso blank. Variant 1: title page verso has "The contents of the seuerall bookes ..". Variant 2: cancellandum title page, with "London" in the imprint and lacking the words "Published .. author.". Variant 3: with an added bifolium, the first recto with "The contents of the seuerall bookes ..", the second with Greek verses by Ambrose Fisher.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1409:01) s1999 miun s