Spiegel, Adriaan van de. De humani corporis fabrica libri decem. Part I and II in 1 volume. 6 Bl., 328 pp., 6 Bl; 6 Bl., 104 S. With 2 engraved titles, woodcut printer mark on the 2. ==References== Part), several woodcut vignettes and 89 full-page text coppers by Francesco Valesio after Joseph Maurer and G. Casserio. 39 x 25,5 cm. Leather d. C. (some rubbing and impacting, with deposited flaws, back restored using the original). Venice, Daniel Bucretius, 1627. See Choulant-Fr. 223 et seq. 228. Waller 1813 and 9122. Wellcome 6040. Eales I, 339. Wüthrich, Merian II, Bo. 10 C.E. 47. Garrison & Morton 381. Hirsch-Hübotter I, 850. – Medical work of Adriaan van de Spiegel (1578-1625) a Flemish anatomist, surgeon and botanist. The copper engravings show human anatomy such as skeletons, individual organs, the brain, a pregnancy and infants. "Casserius' plates mark a new epoch in the history of anatomical representation, owing to the correctness of their anatomic drawing, their tasteful arrangement, and the beauty of their technical execution. And this all the more, since they cover the whole field of anatomy and have become the models for anatomical illustrations in copper, just as the Vesalian representations had been for anatomic woodcuts. The woodcut was now entirely abandoned." (Choulant/Frank, p. 228). – Purposes renewed. Title with hs. Possession note. Expensive and extensively restored, cracks deposited in text and panels and partly overfibered. A little finger- and brown-spotted.