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Tabulae Anatomicae Clarissimi viri Bartholomaei Eustachii.
Rome: Laurentii & Thoma Pagliarini, 1728
Ornamental frontispiece with 47 engraved plates
Original carta rustica
Second Rome edition.
The plates included in the present volume are believed to have been completed by Eustachi in 1554 but only a few published prior to his death twenty years later.
The plates were rediscovered in the Vatican Library in 1714 and presented to Giovanni Maria Lancisi, personal physician of Pope Clement XI, for publication.
Eustachi is known to have utilized multiple cadavers in constructing his anatomical impressions of the human body, and printed them as etchings rather than woodcuts, allowing for far greater detail.
It is believed that had the present etchings been published in Eustachi's lifetime it would have been he rather than Andreas Vesalius who would be considered the founder of human anatomy.
Garrison & Morton 391; Wellcome II, 536.
Large folio: 11 by 16 inches
Very good condition except some foxing
Text in Latin
Tabulae Anatomicae (Anatomical Tables) is the seminal work of 16th-century Italian anatomist Bartholomeo Eustachi, a groundbreaking atlas featuring exquisite copperplate engravings of human anatomy, notable for their accuracy, especially concerning the ear (Eustachian tube) and nervous system, and for pioneering a coordinate system for anatomical reference
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1728 ANATOMICAL TABLES by EUSTACHI antique Tabulae Anatomicae 47 PLATES FOLIO
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Feb 12, 2026 9:00 AM ESTNew York, NY, United States
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