Bartolomeo Eustachius, Tabulae anatomicae... ac notis illustravit Joh. Maria Lancisius. Rome, 1714. This is the first edition of Eustachius' celebrated work, whose illustrations were discovered at the start of the seventeenth century and published here with notes by Lancisi. Norman (740) writes that: 'Had Eustachi's full series of 47 anatomicl copperplates been published at the time of their completion in 1552, Eustachi would have ranked with Vesalius as the founder of modern anatomy... The plates are strikingly modern, produced without the conventional sixteenth-century decorative accompaniments... The images are generic figures, composites of many anatomical observations, and are mathematically as well as observationally exact'. The point about the mathematical exactness is important, and what makes the copy I offer so rare and special is that the two graduated scales allowing each image to measured 'life size' are present. These scales appeared as the last, the often absent plate 48, and are bound in here. Some copies have the two scales cut out and attached to the book with silk ties, so permitting them to be used as measuring rules against each image. The descriptive pages for the plates are attached so as to fold out and be visible while the plates are being examined and measured. Details: Folio (38 x 35 cm) in contemporary vellum: complete with xliv leaves, 115 pages, 7 leaves (index and addenda) with engraved title page and 47 engraved plates along with the additional plate, trimmed and made into the two graduated scale bound in green silk ribbon. There are some sheets with a slight areola in the bottom left corner. The most recent copy traced on the market sold at Christie's in 2007. This copy appeared in modern half calf and without plate 48 (As usual this copy doesn't have the unnumbered plate of a graduated scale which was intended to be cut out'), and was sold for $9375, ex-fees. Another copy listed (' in worn calf, with spine relaid and title added, with faint spotting, damp marks throughout the blanks, and occasional tears, is offered for $6,600.