Anathomia oder abconterfettung eynes Mans leib, wie er inwendig gestaltet ist
Publisher: Bey Jacob Frölich.
Published: 1544
Place of publication: Gedruckt zu Strassburg
Language: lat
Subjects: Human anatomy; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Anathomia oder abconterfettung eines Weibs leib, wie er inwendig gestaltet ist.
Notes: Two anatomical fugitive sheets showing a seated male and female figure with movable flaps (6 on male sheet, 9 on female) mounted over the thoracic and abdominal region revealing successive layers of anatomical structures. Both sheets have an explanatory text in German, printed in three columns and smaller woodcuts of accessory figures.

"These sheets are from the same blocks as the 1539 Vogtherr sheets": cf. Wellcome Hist. Med. Lib. Cat.

Carlino, A. Paper Bodies, 20

Haller, A. von. Biblioteca anatomica, I, p. 180

Choulant, L. Hist. and bib. of anatomic illus., p. 159

Muller, F. Heinrich Vogtherr, l'ancien, 226d

Wellcome cat. of printed books, I, 293, 10-11

Dackerman, S. Prints and the pursuit, 11

Found by James F. Ballard circa 1928 in the back of Andreas Vesalius, Von des Menschen Cörpers Anatomey, ein kurtzer, aber vastnützer Asszug : [Basel : Gedruckt bey Johann Herpst, genant Oporino, 1543].

Imperfect: title damaged, some letters wanting.
Table of contents: title: Sheet 1 (male figure): Anathomia oder abconterfettung eynes Mans leib, wie er inwendig gestaltet ist.; title: Sheet 2 (female figure): Anathomia oder abconterfettung eines Weibs leib, wie er inwendig gestaltet ist.