Author: Riolan, Jean, the younger (1577-1657]
Title: ENCHEIRIDIUM ANATOMICUM ET PATHOLOGICUM In quo ex naturali constitutione partium, recessus à naturali statu demonstratur, ad usum Theatri Anatomici adornatum / a Joanne Riolano filio, origine & ordine Parisiensi, doctore medicinae in Academia Parisiensi, anatomes & herbariae professore regio, atque decano, Reginae Matris Regis Ludovici XII primario medico per decennium & postremo. Figuris elegantissimis, indiceque accuratissimo exornatum.
Description: Lugduni Batavorium [Leiden]., Adrian Wyngaerden 1649 Fine frontispiece of dissection deomonstration with named doctors present + implements etc + folding engraved plates (24 as called for) by R.A. Persyn. . Octavo later half calf and marbled sides (1" split to head&foot of hinge/tips worn) [20]+471+[48]pp (Signatures: *8 2*² A-Z AaBb8 Cc6 (Cc6 blank) Dd-Hh8 (and 24 unsigned leaves of letterpress accompanying plates). Pages 411-416 omitted in numbering FEP with comments on Riolan by a previous owner. The folding plates and their facing textural explanations are printed on one side of the leaves only, the first plate has a small repaired tear without loss, last few blank versos of the pages are dusty in margins. Small loss to blank area of lower margin of frontis. Some stainging and minor tanning throughout to the pages but never intrusive and not affecting the crispness of the paper. *Riolano was physician to Mary de Medici mother of Louis XIII and influenced the king to establish Paris' botanical gardens. This, is one of his principal works but he also wrote against Harvey's blood circulation, tried to disprove existance of Giants &c but according to the commentator on the front endpaper he was finally convinced of the circulatory vascular system towards the end of his life (referenced by Waller 7998).

Keywords: medicine anatomy dissection


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