[Rarebooks] FS: 17th Century Large Folio Medical Atlas: Bidloo: ANATOMIA HUMAN CORPORIS, 1685, with 104 copper engravings

[Charles Agvent]

BIDLOO, Govard. ANATOMIA HUMANI CORPORIS, CENTUM & QUINQUE TABULIS,
PER  ARTIFICIOSSIS  G. DE LAIRESSE AD VIVUM DELINEATIS....  Amsterdam:
van  Someren,  van  Dick, Boom 1685. Large folio (12-3/4"  x  18-1/4")
bound  in  early  19th  century quarter leather  and  marbled  covers,
gilt-lettered  and decorated spine. With an additional engraved title,
engraved  portrait by Abraham Blooteling after Gerard de Lairesse, 104
(of  105,  lacks  #11) numbered copper-engraved plates  by  Blooteling
after  Lairesse,  numbers 10 and 23 folding, printer's woodcut  device
at  title-page,  woodcut initials & tailpieces. First Edition of  this
striking  anatomical  atlas,  one of the greatest ever,  whose  plates
display  the emotional and slightly morbid tendencies of the  Baroque.
Bidloo,  who  later was physician to William of Orange,  prepared  the
specimens;  Gerard  de  Lairesse created  the  drawings,  meticulously
realistic  images  of  flayed corpses or body  parts  juxtaposed  with
objects  of everyday life; and Blooteling engraved the copper  plates.
The  artist and the engraver achieved their dramatic result by using a
combination  of  techniques  designed  to create  a  sense  of  depth.
Garrison-Morton,  385;  Heirs  of Hippocrates, 667:  "The  plates  are
considered  among  the  finest illustrations of the  Baroque  period";
Norman,  231:  "[Lairesse's]  illustrations brought the  qualities  of
Dutch  still-life  painting into anatomical illustration,  and  gave a
new,  darker  spiritual expression to the significance of the  art  of
dissection";   Wellcome,  II,  165.   Some  plates  cropped,  slightly
affecting  image; many plates strengthened with strips of paper; plate
10  restored. Moderate foxing, occasional minor staining. A Very  Good
example of this rare and important medical atlas.            $17500.00

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