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In the De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), the most famous anatomist of the Renaissance, described the human body with an unprecedented level of detail. Partly inspired by Leonardo, Vesalius based his explanations on his experience and dissections.

The book contains descriptions and illustrations of the structure, functions, and pathologies of the human body, with its various parts named in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. The author also included in his work the opinions of other anatomists.

More than 250 illustrations are of great artistic merit and are generally attributed by modern scholars to the “studio of Titian”, and especially to his former apprentice Jan Stephan van Calcar.

They portray the human body in its progressive stages of dissection, set before a landscape, and posed following the Renaissance taste for Classical sculpture. In one plate, for example, a skeleton rests its elbow on a tomb with its skull bent in contemplation of death.

The woodcuts were greatly superior to the illustrations of the anatomical atlases of that period, which were never made by anatomy professors themselves.

Vesalius’ works are based on his lectures at the University of Padua, during which he dissected corpses to illustrate what he was discussing. Dissections were previously made by a barber-surgeon under the direction of a doctor of medicine, who was expected not to perform any manual labor.

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#1 Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Budapest: Pytheas Books, 2020

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, London On the Fabric of the Human Body: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

This edition does not include a commentary volume.

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Full-leather binding with blind embossed emblem with the title of the book on the cover. The book closes with four metal clasps. Leather label with gilded letters on the spine.

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#2 Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Budapest: Pytheas Books, 2004

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books

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Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, London, British Library, 548.i.2.(1), Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
Facsimile edition by Pytheas Books
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, London On the Fabric of the Human Body: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

Beautiful mottled end paper.

Binding

The cover is made from wood and it is bound in leather with copper decoration on the corners and in the middle of the book case. The book closes with 4 copper clasps. On the spine, a black leather label with guilded letters and guilded decoration.

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