[ANATOMY]. REMMELIN (Johann). Catoptrum Microcosmicum, suis - Lot 67

[ANATOMY]. REMMELIN (Johann). Catoptrum Microcosmicum, suis ære incisis visionibus splendens, cum historia, & pinace, de novo prodit. Augustæ Vindelicorum [Augsburg], Typis Davidis Francki [David Franck], 1619. In broadside (375 x 485 mm), bradel, marbled cloth boards (modern binding). [I (Title)] f. + 26 pp. (numbered 1 to 24 then 27 & 28, pp. 25/26 not extant). SECOND EDITION after the one published without the author's approval in 1613 (Ulm?), of ONE OF THE FIRST ANATOMICAL TREATIES WITH MOBILE PIECES KNOWN. An ornate engraved title, a portrait of the author on the verso of the title & three large full-page engravings (pp. 9, 15, 21) by Lucas KILIAN and Stephan MICHELSPACHER after Johann REMMELIN, laminated with ALMOST 90 EXTREMELY PRECISE RABATS AND MOBILE PARTS revealing successive layers of human anatomy, some engraved recto and verso. Page 8 has an additional half-page printed on both sides (letters A to H in the table) and glued in the margin. From the Jacques de Saint-Albin library, with inventory number label on the flyleaf (no. 791). Accidents to title and several leaves, mostly marginal, skilfully restored, without missing; slight wetness at head of volume. Choulant-Frank, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, 232; Heirs of Hippocrates, 456. See reproductions