Opuscula anatomica

by Bartholomaeus Eustachius

$150,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Venice: Vincenzo Luchino, 1564. / First edition, very rare, of one of the most important of all anatomical books — the book that, had its full forty-seven plates been published in 1552 as its author intended, would have placed Bartolomeo Eustachi alongside Vesalius as a co-founder of modern anatomy. Of the six treatises collected here, four are first-of-their-kind — the first monograph on the kidney with the suprarenal glands and the renal

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