Anatomia del corpo humano di Giovanni Valverde: co' Discorsi del Medesimo, novamente ristampata e con l'aggiunta d'alcune tavole ampliata

Features

Author:  Juan Arnusco de Valverde

Publisher:  Giunti

Place of printing:  Venice

Year of publication:  1606

Product Condition:
Half leather binding with corners in poor condition: spine very worn, dirty, with a cut; missing headphones; paper covering of the dishes very worn and dirty with gaps along the hinges; peelings on the edges of the plates. Cuts sprayed with traces of dust. Paste plates and endpapers in colored marbled paper. The papers are irregularly browned with blooms and small brown spots; paper B2 is missing and notebook OO with 4 additional plates is added after the quinterna O. We report a flood of humidity at the upper portion of the external margin which affects almost all the cc in a discontinuous way and with variable intensity; a water stain at the lower portion of the internal margin from a2 to B1 and a water stain that gradually becomes more intense at the lower margin from Y4 to CC6 (end of volume); strips of paper appear discontinuously along the entire volume to reinforce the internal margin of the cc (in particular at the QR quinterns); small worm holes without compromising the text appear near the lower margin (A1-C3;F6-X3) and the internal margin (P6-T1); cuts without gaps, often repaired with paper strips glued to the v, in G6,L4,N6,R2(plate 3 of book II), R5(paper strips to the D on the v), T2(plate 1 of book IV) ,V3. In particular: the Title Page is reinforced at the internal and lower margin by glued paper strips; the B1 paper is very fragile with tears and reinforcement at the lower margin without loss of text; R6 (plate 5 of book II) is faded, with reinforcements on all the margins and a cut along the internal margin without any missing parts; CC6, last c (plate 4 of book VII) is very creased, with strips of paper reinforcing the margins and repairing small tears

Pages:  cc(18),81,(4),82-154

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  30
Width:  22

Description

Seventeenth-century edition of the famous anatomy treatise by the Spanish doctor Juan Arnusco de Valverde, published in the first edition with the title “Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano” in 1556; in 1560, with the types of Antonio Salamanca, and Antonio Lafrery, the first Italian translation was published in Rome by Antonio Tabo. In 1586, a new edition revised by the author was published in Venice in the Giunti printing house, then reprinted in 1606, with the addition of 4 new engraving plates depicting the muscular bands of the human body, in a notebook OO inserted between papers 82/ 83, which bring the total number of plates to 46. Valverde refers in his work to the work of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern anatomy with his rejection of the traditionally binding authority of Galen's anatomical writings for a direct study of the body human through cadaver dissections. In fact, Valverde's plates appear mostly copied from those of Vesalius' "De humani corporis fabrica" ​​of 1543: very realistic plates of undoubted aesthetic quality probably designed by Gaspar Becerra (1520-1570) and engraved in copper by Nicolas Beatrizet. The frontispiece engraved in an elaborate architectural frame with anatomical details and dissection scenes is splendid; the lily emblem of the Giunti family is present: a large typographical mark also appears on the colophon at the end of the volume together with the Register. A portrait of Valverde is found on the reverse of the dedication to King Philip II, followed by a second dedication to Cardinal Giovanni da Toledo whom Valverde accompanied to Italy as a doctor in 1554