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20000 SEK

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25 000-30 000 SEK

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ANATOMICAL ´FLAP´ BOOK. REMMELIN, JOHANN (1583-1632). Catoptrum microcosmicum, suis aere incisis visionibus splendens cum historia... Frankfurt am Main (A. Humm heirs) 1660. BOUND TOGETHER WITH: Tabulae Anatomico-Anthropographicae, Oder Kürtzliche dabey Gründliche Beschreibung der Theile des Menschlichen Cörpers, Nach ihrem Wesen und Verrichtungen, ... mit sonderbahrem Fleiß in VI. Tabellen verfasset von Anatomephilo. Dresden (J. J. Winckler) 1708.

Folio (c. 450x340 mm). 28 (i.e. 26) pp. Engraved title with allegorical figures and medical instruments, 3 full-page engraved plates with movable flaps (all pages including title and plates with paper repairs to margins and corners, some spotting and soiling to margins of title, plates with repairs, some spotting to first plate, plates probably lacking a few flaps (parts), some flaps loose [woman´s stomach], and some with repairs, two repaired with new paper ["the scarfes"], repaired tear near the man´s head, text with some spotting and staining).

Tabulae Anatomico-Anthropographicae...
Folio (c. 450x340 mm). Printed title and 6 folding tables. Title and text with repaired margins, sometimes trimmed, some repaired tears, some staining and soiling, table 5 and 6 with paper losses to upper margin, spotting and staining.

19th century light brown half calf, spine in compartments. New endpapers. Part of original first free endpaper with old owner´s note, F. J. Desensey ?, dated 1826.

VD17 12:177437G, Ove Hagelin, Iconographia Anatomica, 19 (Catalogue of the Swedish Royal Library, 1991). Latin edition.
According to Hagelin, the plates in most editions have been printed from the original copper plates. The first plate with Adam and Eve is signed I. R. (Johann Remmelin) and L. K. (Lucas Kilian) as engraver. Plates are printed by Stephan Michelspacher.
Johann Remmelin (1583-1632), town physician in Ulm, Germany and a skillful anatomist.

This anatomical flap book is both an art work and a medical work. All three sheets have layers of moveable flaps that show the anatomy of portions of the body from the outside to the inside. The flaps also reflect moral judgments with an image of the devil covering the top layer of flaps over the woman´s genitals, and the traditional fig leaves, or something like them, covering the man´s. The work was first published at Ulm in 1613 without Remmelin´s name or permission, and without text. Remmelin put out the first edition with text under his authorship at Augsburg in 1619.

VD18 14380145-005 (for Tabulae).

Auktionsnummer:

6185

Date:

2019-06-14