De corporis humani structura et vsu Felicis Plateri Bas. medici antecessoris libri III
Subtitle: tabulis methodicè explicati, iconibus accuratè illustrati
Contributors: Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564; Froben, Ambrosius, 1537-1602, printer; Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?; Officina Frobeniana
Publisher: Ex Officina Frobeniana, per Ambrosium Frob
Published: 1583
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Human anatomy; Early works to 1800; Atlases; Physiology
Other titles: De corporis hvmani strvctvra et vsv Felicis Plateri; De corporis humani structura et usu Felicis Plateri
Notes: Part 3 has special title page: Liber tertius. Corporis humani partium per icones delineatarum explicatio. Basileae : Apud Frobenium., M.D. LXXXI. It consists of the title leaf, with engraved port. of Platter, "A. aet. XXXXI ... Ao Dom: 1578", on verso; a leaf containing a note to the reader, with the explication of plate 1 on verso; and 50 leaves, each containing an engraving on the recto and letterpress explication of the succeeding (i.e. facing) plate on the verso.

The plates are for the most part reduced copies of the woodcuts in Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica. See author's note to the reader, and Harvey Cushing, A biobibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed. (Hamden, 1962), p. 97-98.

Errata notes on p. 197v.

Printer's devices on: title page, p. [2], between pts. 2 and 3 and title page, pt. 3.

George S. Huntington Library.

Heirs of Hippocrates, 372

Sallander, H. Bib. Walleriana, 7504

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, P1405

NLM 16th cent., 3683

Cushing, (2nd edition), p. 97-98

In Latin with Greek references.
Table of contents: title: (from "Argumenta librorum"): Lib. I. Corporis humani partium simplicium structura & vsus.; title: Lib. II. Corporis humani partium compositarum structura & vsus.; title: Lib. III. Corporis humani partium per icones delineatarum explicatio.