Two Facsimiles on C16th Anatomy: David EDWARDES (1532) & John Banister (1578)
1) O'MALLEY, C.D.; RUSSELL, K.F. & EDWARDES, David 'David Edwardes Introduction to Anatomy 1532'. Pub. LONDON, Oxford University Press, 1961. Contains reviews of the 1532 book. 'This book contains the first work on anatomy to be published by an English author in England. It also gives the first printed reference to anatomical dissection in England. It consists of fifteen pages in which the abdominal viscera are described, with paragraphs on the diaphragm, pleura and scalp. In spite of its brevity this is an historically important work. The BM copy would appear to be the only one now extant; it has the bottom of the title torn off, with slight damage to the woodcut border. The RSM copy is now lost.
In the dedication Edwardes tells us that he proposes to write a complete book on anatomy but apparently he did not continue with his plan...Edwardes was M.A. Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. For a time he acted as Reader in Greek but in 1528 moved to Cambridge where he was granted the degree of M.D.' (Russell British Anatomy 295)
Red buckram with printed yellow dust jacket, jacket foxed, minor foxing to pages. Russell's news clippings pasted to endpaper. References: Russell British Anatomy 295. Garrison and Morton 368.1. STC 7483. Bookplates: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (220x145mm)
2) BANISTER, John (1533-1619) 'The historie of man, sucked from the sappe of the most approved anathomistes, in this present age, compiled in most compendious fourme, and now published in English, for the utilitie of all godly chirurgians, within this realme'. Pub. LONDON; printed by John Daye, dwellyng over Aldersgate, Anno. 1578. Photographic reproduction of the copy in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1960. Collation: 4° A-B4 *2 C-Y4 2A-2H4 2I2 2K2(-1) ($1-4 signed) 125 leaves; ff. [11] 2-112 [3] (Fol. 1-Fol. 48 rest without 'Fol.'). Collation Brief: Title, [9]leaves, 112leaves, 4leaves :: 4 plates. This is the most pretentious anatomical work by a British author to appear in the 16th century. It is frankly a compilation but Banister acknowledges his debt to other authors. Quarter red leather with red buckram boards, gold embossed title to spine, taped repair to endpapers, some foxing and tanning to endpapers. References: Russell British Anatomy 28 and STC 1359. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell. (246x190mm)


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

Estimate $100-150