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Cesio], Carlo Cesi [or (1626 - 1686)
L'ANATOMIA DEIPITTORI DEL SIGNORE CARL CESIO, DAS IST: DEUTLICHE ANWEISUNG UND GRÜNDLICHE VORSTELLUNG VON DER ANATOMIE DER MAHLER, WIE IN DEN GLIEDERN DES MENSCHLICHEN LEIBS DIE VORNEHMSTE GEBEINE UND MUSCULN, ... ZU ERKENNEN, ANZUSEHEN UND VORZUSTELLEN SEYN; ANFÄNGLICH VON DEM KUNST-BERÜHMTEN MEISTER CARL CESIO ... NUN ABER ZU MEHRERN AUFNAHM DER MAHLER- UND ZEICHEN-KUNST IN DAS TEUTSCHE GETREULICH ÜBERSETZET MITGETHEILET VON JOHANN DANIEL PREISSLERN.
Nürnberg, 1780.
Folio [35,5 by 22 cm]. [4] pp. + 16 plates, engraved by Hieronymus Böllmann, after Cesio.

Item offered is Cesi's L'Anatomia together with an incomplete copy of Preissler's book on the principles of drawing in four parts (1778-89). 2 volumes, contemporary half calf.

$ 780

Seventh edition, edited by Johann Daniel Preissler [1666-1737]. An artistic anatomy based on Vesalian drawings. It contains sixteen engraved plates, two skeletons and fourteen myologic plates, among them five complete muscle-manikins. Preface is signed by Preissler, March 14th, 1743. Originally issued at Rome 1679 and 1697, under title: Cognizione de' muscoli del corpo umano per uso del disegni and Anatomia dei pittori. Cognizione dei muscoli del corpo umano per il disigno respectively. First German edition 1706. This work by Cesi is sometimes included as a supplement to Preissler book on the principles of drawing: Die  durch Theorie erfundene Practic, oder gründlich versasste Regulen, ...

* L. Choulant, Hist. and bibliog. of anat. illus., p. 256-7. B. Röhrl, History and Bibliography of Artistic Anatmomy, pp. 366-7. Waller 1880.

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