140 - Medicine - Anatomy - Vesling, Johannes. *Syntagma anatomicum*, with commentary and appendix, illustrated and expanded by Gerard Leon based on observations from ancient, modern, and his own sources. Blasio. Second edition, corrected and expanded from the first. With an illustrated copperplate title page, an engraved portrait, 2 copperplate plates, and 50 full-page text plates. Amsterdam, Jansson à Waesberge & Weyerstraet, 1666. 11 leaves, 558 pp., 8 leaves; 23 x 17.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding (some wear and scuffing, spine joints broken, half of the spine missing).

Medicine - Anatomy - Vesling, Johannes. *Syntagma anatomicum*, with commentary and appendix, illustrated and expanded by Gerard Leon based on observations from ancient, modern, and his own sources. Blasio. Second edition, corrected and expanded from the first. With an illustrated copperplate title page, an engraved portrait, 2 copperplate plates, and 50 full-page text plates. Amsterdam, Jansson à Waesberge & Weyerstraet, 1666. 11 leaves, 558 pp., 8 leaves; 23 x 17.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding (some wear and scuffing, spine joints broken, half of the spine missing). 6th edition overall; first published in 1641 without illustrations. - Waller 9931ff. - Haeser II, 55 - Hirsch/H. V, 739: “A competent handbook of anatomy.” - Vesling (1598–1649) accompanied the Venetian consul as his personal physician on a journey to the Orient in 1627. Upon his return, he taught anatomy, botany, and surgery with great success in Venice and Padua before setting out on a final major research expedition to the Orient in 1648. - With the portrait, which is often missing. - Title page with an old name inscription, slightly browned in places.