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Anatomy atlas with moving parts Hellwig, Christoph von. Nosce te ipsum vel Anatomicum vivum or: Kurtz conceived yet correctly set anatomical verck, in which the gnatched anatomy ... to find ... besides necessary coppers, of which the Invention can be taken out especially by taking out the Viscera, according to which tables probably look, inform themselves out of the Tractätlein darbey, and in turn insert. In addition to description of fatal wounds. (2. ==References== 4 Bl., 42 pp. TVignette (Portrait Hellwigs) and 4 copper panels with numerous fold-mounted, fold-out and movable parts of I. H. Werner. 31 x 20 cm. Cardboard tape with grey black drawn paste paper cover (lowly impacted and with few reference errors) with RSchild (with bursting). Frankfurt and Leipzig, Hieronymus Philipp Ritschel, (1720). Hirsch-Hübotter III, 140. Waller 4288. Wellcome III, 240. Not with Garrison-Morton. – The Atlas, which first appeared in 1715, comes from the Lic(entiatus) Christoph von Hellwig (1663-1721), a practical physician in Weissenfels and later Erfurt. The work is virtually a revised edition of Remmelin's Catoptrum. – Title with small old name and old private owner stamp "F. A. Hauffe", slightly wavy, slightly tanned, dusty and finger stained, overall but remarkably well preserved, probably complete with all moving parts and overall only with small traces of use. The rear interior mirror of the cover with mounted anatomical copper engraving from the work of James Benignus Winslow, Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body, 1734.
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Hellwig, Christoph von — Anatomicum vivum Frankfurt and Leipzig, Hieronymus Philipp Ritschel, (1720).
Christoph von Hellwig's Anatomicum Vivum, 1720, anatomical atlas with movable parts.
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1.200 €
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Price checked 26/09/2026, 12:13:43
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- Lot #
- 219
- Currency
- EUR
- Location
- Berlin, DE
- Lot Ends
- 8 Oct 2026, 23:59:59
- Auction Ends
- 8 Oct 2026, 23:59:59
- Lots in Auction
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