Andreae Vesalij Bruxellensis, inuictissimi Caroli V. Imperatoris medici, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem
Contributors: Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568, printer; Titian, approximately 1488-1576, attributed name, woodcutter; Calcar, Jan Stephan van,   1499-1546? attributed name, woodcutter
Publisher: Per Ioannem Oporinum
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat; grc
Number of pages: 824
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Blood-vessels; Nerves; Surgery; Physiology; Human anatomy
Other titles: Andreae Vesalij Brvxellensis, invictissimi Caroli V; Andreae Vesalii Brvxellensis, invictissimi Caroli V; Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, invictissimi Caroli V
Work titles: De humani corporis fabrica
Notes: This, the 1555 edition of Vesalius' Fabrica, contains the author's final revisions of the text, along with significant typographical refinements. The printer, Joannes Oporinus, set this edition in larger type (forty-nine instead of fifty-seven lines per page), which required a recutting of all the woodcut initial letters to fit the updated layout. This edition was also printed on heavier paper stock than the edition of 1543.

The woodcut illustrations in the Fabrica are frequently ascribed to the workshop/circle of Titian and/or Jan Stephan van Calcar, but the names of the artist or artists responsible for their creation remain unknown.

The date in this description is from the colophon on leaf 2E5v: " Ex Officiana Ionannis Oporini, Anno Salutis per Christum Partae MDLV. Mense Augusto."

2nd folio (3rd ed.), see: Cushing, VI.A.-3.

Signatures: a-źœ A-V́œ X1 (folded), X2 Y-Źœ 2a-2b́œ(2b5+chi1 (folded)) 2c-2źœ 2Áı 2B-2Éœ.

Illustrated title page; woodcut initials; printed marginalia.

Printer's device on leaf 2E6.

Includes index.

Cushing, H. Bio-bib. of Andreas Vesalius, VI.A.-3.

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.), 377

Heirs of Hippocrates, 283

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in modern umber morocco and brown cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. The verso of the front free endpaper contains an early Latin bibliographical inscription. Two early ex-libris inscriptions are struck out on the title page, the first of which, appearing below the title, appears to be dated 1683. The embossed stamp of the Library is present on leaf b1. Marginalia, in various forms, appears on leaves q6v, r5v, pages 436-449, 591-597, 803-805, and leaf 2E1. This copy is imperfect, with leaves a6 and 2E6 wanting.