1666 Latin Edition of Gerard Blasius':'Anatome Contracta' (Condensed Anatomy)
BLAES, Gerard [Blasius/Blasii] (1626-1692) 'Anatome contracta in gratiam disccipulorum conscripta and edita' (Condensed anatomy written and published for the benefit of students).
Pub. AMSTELODAMI: apud Gerbrandum Schagen in plateâ Vitulinâ, 1666. Collation: 12°; *4 A-M12 N8 ($1-6 signed, - H4) 156 leaves; pp. [8] 1-281 [23] (174, 255 numbered 158; 257). Collation Brief: [1]leaf [blank], Engr. title, title, [2]leaves, 281pp, [11]leaves, [1]leaf (blank).
Blaes was professor of anatomy at Amsterdam. He is best known for his works on comparative anatomy, notably his Anatomem animalium, 1681 which was the first general systematic treatise on the subject.
Full brown leather with typed label to spine, well loved, cracks to spine and flecking, loose first endpapers and some paper loss, leather bleeding, some notes, fading dentelles. Reference: Bibliothoea Walleriana 1098. Signature of W.T. Clegg, Liverpool. Given to KFR by Sir Edward Ford. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (130x77mm)


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $700-800