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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Culture Et Civilisation; Bruxelles, 1983. facsimile . Leather binding . fine/no jacket as issued . NOT an ex library book. Book with brown leather binding. Print on spine in gold on dark brown background. 1983 Facsimile reprint of 1559 edition is written in pencil top corner of front endpaper. 170 pages. Narrative in Latin. Book measures 12.5 x 8.5.

Culture et Civilisation, 1983. FINE HARDCOVER. Realdo Colombo (1500-1559) - De Re Anatomica, 1559. Colombo described the lung function, the pulmonary capillaries, and the alternans of cardiac systole and vessel distension. The first edition, second issue, was dedicated to Pope Pius IV. According to tradition, Columbo's De re anatomica was to have been illustrated by Michelangelo; however, Michelangelo left no drawings or any other evidence that he ever seriously considered the task, and we can only speculate as to what sort of artistic masterpiece might have been produced in such a collaboration. Instead Colombo's book was published without illustrations except for the woodcut title, which was directly inspired by that of Vesalius's Fabrica. The dangling right arm of the cadaver in the title-page woodcut recalls Donatello's bas-relief The Heart of the Miser. This book, entirely in Latin, is a 1983 reprint, printed in Brussels. The binding is in leather and is in flawless condition.… Read More

Les Belles Lettres, 2014. 1st. paperback. New. 100x26x150.