Andreae Vesalii invictissimi Caroli V. Imperatoris medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica cura Hermanni Boerhaave ... & Bernhardi Siegfried Albini ... Tomus primus[-secundus].
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3200344
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([42], 572; [8], 577-684, [2], 685-1156, [52] p., [2], 79 leaves of plates) : ill., port. ; fol. Old NT shelfmark: 34.i.11-12. Running number: 5516. Large paper copy. Provenance: subscriber's copy: "John Mitchell, Med. Doct." in list of subscribers. Manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol. cum 79. Tabb. figg." [i.e. catalogue code and collation note by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742). Mitchell, a qualified medical doctor, was also Ellys's personal physician, having studied at the medical schools in Edinburgh and at Leiden under Herman Boerhaave, with whom Mitchell corresponded]. Binding: eighteenth-century Dutch quarter-bound pink tawed sheepskin (spines faded), with marbled paper over boards. Untrimmed edges.
Makers and roles
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) Gabriele Cuneo (fl.16th century) Prospero Borgarucci (b.1540) Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) Jan Wandelaar (Amsterdam 1692 - Leyden 1759) Gabrielle Falloppio (1523-1562) Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697 - 1770)