Andreae Vesalii invicissimi Caroli V. imperatoris medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica / cura Hermanni Boerhaave ... & Bernhardi Siegfried Albini ...
Subtitle: tomus primus [-secundus]
Contributors: Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738; Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697-1770; Wandelaar, Jan, 1690 or 1692-1759; Borgarucci, Prospero, 1540-; Vivié, Johannes du, active 1678-1728, bookseller; J. et H. Verbeek
Publisher: Apud Joannem du Vivie, et Joan. & Herm. Verbeek, Bibliop
Published: 1725
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum
Language: lat
Subjects: Human anatomy; Atlases; Early works to 1800; Skeleton
Work titles: Works
Notes: Text in Latin with some Greek references.

Title page in red and black.

Title page vignette with: "Fidelissimi Magistri Mortui"

Imprint information in brackets.

Includes half-title pages.

Includes decorated half title page in vol. 1.

Woodcut initials; printed marginal notes in Greek and Latin.

The majority of the figures are copperplates re-engraved by J. Wandelaar after Calcar.

The Chirurgia magna, edited by Borgarucci and published under the name of Vesalius, is generally regarded as spurious, but may have been compiled from the class notes of Vesalius' pupils.  Cf. Harvey Cushing.  A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius. 1943, p. 216-217.

Includes index in three columns in vol. 2.

Health Sciences Library copy 1: George S. Huntington Library; copy 2: John G. Curtis Library.

Heirs of Hipppocrates, 287

Choulent-Frank, p. 183

Cushing, Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, VI. D-8
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: v. 1. De humani corporis fabrica; title: v. 2. De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome; title: Epistola, rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti ... pertractans; title: Gabrielis Falloppii ... Observationes anatomicae; title: Anatomicarum Gabrielis Falloppii observationum examen; title: Gabrielis Cunei ... Apologiae Francisci Putei pro Galeno in anatome, examen; title: Chirurgia magna ... ab ... Prospero Borgarutio, recognita, emendata, ac in lucem edita.