1647 First French Translation of Anatomist Caspar Bartholin's 'Institutions Anatomiques'
BARTHOLIN, Casper (1585-1629) 'Institutions anatomiques augmentées and enrichies pour la seconde fois, tant des opinions and observations neuvelles des modernes, dont la plus grande partie n'a iamais esté mise en lumiere, que de plusieurs figures en taille douce, par Thomas Bartholin Docteur en medicine, fils de l'Autheur, et traduictes en François par Abr. du Prat docteur en medicine' (Anatomical Institutions augmented and enriched for the second time, both with the new opinions and observations of modern scholars, most of which have never been brought to light, and with several engraved illustrations, by Thomas Bartholin, Doctor of Medicine, son of the Author, and translated into French by Abr. du Prat, Doctor of Medicine).
Pub. PARIS: Chez Mathurin Henault, ruë S. Jacques à l'Ange, Gardien et Jean Henault au Palais, dans la Salle Duphine, à l'Ange Gardien. 1647, Avec Privilege du Roy. Collation: 4°,a4 é4 A-4S4 ($1-3 signed ij, iij - 4S2) 89 leaves; pp. [16] 1-656 [40]. Collation brief: [1]leaf (blank), Engr. title, title, [6]leaves, 656pp, [19]leaves, [1]leaf (blank) :: portrait and 84 plates. Frontispiece, engraved title and 84 plates. Fold out illustration facing 4C3v. Includes the extra plate, now bound between pages 220-221, but previously at end of the book after table.
Casper Bartholin was a noted Danish Anatomi book was made very popular by his son Thomas who edited and augmented it in a number of editions. Thomas's son, also Caspar, was an anatomist too.
Caspar (senior) held more chairs than anyone in history. He was successively professor of philosophy at Basle (1607), of anatomy at Naples (1609), of Greek at Montpellier (1610), of eloquence at Copenhagen (1612), of medicine at Copenhagen (1613) and of theology at Copenhagen (1624).
Johannes Walæus (Johannes de Wale) (1604-1649), professor of anatomy at Leyden, supported Harvey's work. His two letters were published in the 1643 edition of Harvey's De Motu Cordis (and in later editions). They had been printed earlier in 1640. Thomas Bartholin was a pupil of Walaeus.
Soft beige leather by Green of Melbourne, with inner cover impressed dentelles, gold embossing and design to spine, speckled edges, minor shelf wear, some foxing, tanning, marks, script to front pages, some image shadowing. Signatures of Petrus Girard D Med. (17th cent)
Ex Libris P.M. Angunieux(?), Monsieur Favrede St Germain, Deportes à Cremeau (1830). Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell. (205x145mm)



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

Estimate $3,000-4,000