
Lot 91•
BLAES (GERARD) Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, FIRST EDITION, James Flesher, 1669 (3)
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BLAES (GERARD)
Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, FIRST EDITION, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 65 engraved plates, contemporary calf, worn [Garrison-Morton 296; Krivatsy 1339; Nissen ZBI 381; Wellcome b12166704], 4to, Amsterdam, widow of Johannes van Someren, Hendrik and widow of Dirk Boom, 1681--FRACASTORO (GIROLAMO) Liber unus, de sympathia & antipathia rerum, title within decorative woodcut border, lacks final leaf Y8 [Adams F824; Durling 1638; Wellcome b21387436], Paris, J. Tornaeus and G. Gazeius, 1554; [ESTIENNE (CHARLES)] De latinis et graecis nominibus arborum, fruticum, herbarum, piscium & avium liber, woodcut device on title [not in Adams], Paris, 1548, 2 works bound in 1 vol., later vellum, 12mo--HOMER. His Iliads Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture and Illustrated by Annotations, by John Ogilby, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (with loss to lower section), engraved portrait, 48 engraved plates (including portrait of Homer, 2 with very small rusthole), lacks portrait of Ogilby, a few single spots, small piece of blank margin torn away from one text leaf, contemporary reverse calf, worn [ESTC R30336], small folio, James Flesher, 1669 (3)
Footnotes
Includes the first edition of Blaes' Anatome animalium, "the first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist" (Cole, Comparative Anatomy), illustrated with fine plates.