79/1752 [Anatomy]. Vesalius, A. Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Ed. H. Boerhaave. Leyden, J. du Vivie and J. and H. Verbeek, 1725, 2 vols., (40),572; (4),1156,(51)p., engr. frontisp. by J. WANDELAAR, 2 identical title-vignettes, portrait, 82 (fold.) plates, ills., contemp. unif. calf w. richly gilt spine and mor. letterpiece, folio.

- Library stamps scattered throughout; frontisp. lacks outer portion; foxed/ yellowed/ browned/ waterstained throughout; 2nd vol. first few lvs. w. wormhole; plates occas. sl. mouldy; 3 plates w. large (repaired) tears (scotch tape shining through). Both vols. lack 2nd letterpiece; 2nd vol. chipped at foot of spine; binding worn along extremities.

= Very rare complete copy. Bibliotheca Walleriana 9917; Cushing VI.D-8; Hirsch-H. VI, p.97; Osler 579; Choulant p.183; BMN I, p.63; Lindeboom p.185; Norman Library 2143: "The only collected edition of Vesalius' works, issued by Boerhaave (...) and Albinus (...), with copperplate reproductions of the Vesalian woodblocks by Jan Wandelaar (...). The editors added explanations of Vesalius's sixteenth-century anatomical nomenclature for their eighteenth-century readers, and prefaced the first volume with a biography of Vesalius, which Lindeboom has tentatively attributed to Boerhaave (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.