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CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCO ANTONIO & FLORIANO) Icones anatomicae, 9 vol. (3 vol. of plates bound in 4, 3 vol. of text bound in 5), FIRST EDITION, Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1801-1814 (9)
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CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCO ANTONIO & FLORIANO)
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COMPLETE SET OF THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS PUBLISHED IN THE HISTORY OF ANATOMY. This monumental work was the 13-year project of Leopoldo Caldani, Professor of Anatomy at Padua, and his nephew Floriano. A few of the plates were prepared by Floriano but most were drawn and engraved by Cajetano Bosa, Ferdinando de Martiis, Francesco dal Pedro, Pietro Zuliani, Giovanni Battista Torcellano de Murano, Perini and Butafoco, and were based on drawings by Caldani's predecessors: "the representations of bones and muscles follow Albinus, the teeth and sexual organs are after John Hunter, the lymphatics after Mascagni, and the pregnant uterus and embryos after William Hunter and Soemmerring. Among the other major anatomists represented are Monro, Scarpa, Cruikshank, Ruysch, Loder, Cotugno, Haller, Sandifort, Santorini, and Camper" (Heirs of Hippocrates).
The plates are fine impressions engraved on good thick paper, whilst the text volumes, here clean throughout, are inspired typographically by the works of printers such as Bodoni.

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