Abregé d'anatomie accommodé aux arts de peinture et de sculpture.

Folio: 4 pp.; 11 engr. pl. incl. engr. title (some dampst. in the margins, some dispersed spotting, mainly in the margins or text pp., some offsetting from plate to plate).

Contemp. marbled paper wr. (sl. def.). Large margined copy.

Later ed. (1st 1668) containing an engr. title and 10 engr. plates showing 3 skeletons and 7 flayed ones, etched by François Tortebat after the figures executed in reverse by Jan Calcar, Titian's pupil, for the famous treatise "De humani corporis fabrica" by Vesalius. Tortebat's plates are "by common consent the most beautiful reproductions of Vesalius' illustrations ever to be made. This is the second important anatomical treatise for artists, since van der Gracht had preceded Tortebat by some 34 years, but his Anatomie had had a very limited circulation" (Cushing, Vesalius p. 144).
Ref. Blake 353, 455.