[ANATOMY - ASELLI (Gaspare)]. De lactibus siue lacteis venis - Lot 219

[ANATOMY - ASELLI (Gaspare)]. De lactibus siue lacteis venis quarto vasorum mesaraicorum genere nouo inuento [...]. Dissertatio qua sententie anatomice multe, uel perpera recepte [...]. Mediolani [Milan] Apud Io. Baptistam Bidellium, 1627. Small in-4° (175 x 223 mm), soft ivory vellum, title in ink and across the spine (contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION. 52 ff. signed a4, †4, A-K4, †4. A title-frontispiece engraved with the arms of the King of Spain - Duke of Milan, a portrait of the author by Cesare BASSANO and FOUR LARGE ANATOMICAL COLOR PLATES folded in fine. FIRST ANATOMICAL BOOK WITH COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. "This dissertation was a success [...]. We prefer the first edition (of 1627), whose plates printed in color (chiaroscuro) are, are said to be the first attempt of this kind of printing on wood or copper" (Brunet, I, 523-524). Stains and old handwritten inscriptions on the first cover and a small restored accident on the second; a few handwritten inscriptions on the title, including two ex-libris. title, including two crossed-out bookplates; small amount of wetness at foot; some restoration to boards, including a transverse tear to the fourth. fourth. THIS MAJOR BOOK IS PRESENTED HERE IN ITS CONTEMPORARY VELLUM BINDING. Garrison-Morton, 1094; Grolier, Medicine, 26; Waller, 502; Wellcome, 6837; Norman, June 1998, II, 251.