Details

Subject(s)

• Human anatomy—Atlases—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Human anatomy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Illustrated books—Netherlands—History—17th century—Specimens [Browse]

Printer

• Danckerts, Justus, 1635-1701 [Browse]

Former owner

• Hoeven, S. van der (Book collector) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Engravings [Browse]
• Atlases [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Anatomical flap books [Browse]
• Anatomical atlases [Browse]
• Marbled paper bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Clamshell boxes (Binding) [Browse]
• Bookplates (Provenance) [Browse]

Notes

• Descriptions of the plates in Latin and Dutch.
• The three numbered full-page anatomical plates have multiple flaps; the first two plates are pasted to the rectos of the third and fourth leaves respectively; the third plate is pasted to the recto of the fifth (blank) leaf.
• An unnumbered fourth plate of superficial veins after Valverde is trimmed and pasted to the verso of the title leaf and has an additional engraved strip of paper pasted on to round off the lower edge of the border. Cf. Wellcome.
• Printer's name appears following the Latin edition statement on the t.p.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1 Bound in contemporary marbled paper boards. Housed in red clamshell box.

Provenance

Princeton copy 1 Front pastedown has 20th century bookplate of S. Van der Hoeven.

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 1 Purchased 9/26/2016; Phillip J. Pirages. Previously sold at auction to Pirages on 11/12/15.

References

• Wellcome cat. of printed books, IV, p. 504
• Choulant, L. Hist. bibl. anat. illus., p. 233

Other title(s)

• Pinax microcosmographicus
• Ontleding des menschelyke lichaems

OCLC

183827195

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