GREVIN (Jacques) VESALE (André). Les portraicts anatomiques de toutes les parties du corps humain, gravez en taille douce, par le commandement de feu Henry huictiesme, roy d'Angleterre. Ensemble l'abbreggé d'André Vesal, l'explication d'iceux, accompagné d'une déclaration anatomique. Paris, Wechel, 1569. In-folio, first French edition of the translation of Vesal's Epitome, illustrated with 39 (of 40) copper-engraved hors-texte anatomical plates by Thomas Geminus after the plates in Vesal's Fabrica. Bound in full vellum, 5-ribbed spine, red morocco title-piece. Ex-libris Gerard Med A modest copy of this very rare edition. The missing plates 4 and 5 have been replaced by original drawings reproducing them. (incomplete of the last leaf with the printer's mark and of the large plate of Adam and Eve, numerous restorations and wear with small tears and lacks in the lower margins sometimes affecting the text and the foot of the plates, wetness and soiling, handwritten numbering of the later plates, upper jaws and cuts split, accidents to the headpieces). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio