Adriaan van de Spiegel Opera quae extant omnia 1645

Opera quae extant omnia ex recensione Joh. Antonidae vander Linden ...

Spiegel, Adriaan van de, 1578-1625.
Linden, Johannes Antonides van der, 1609-1664.

Amsterdam : J. Blaev, 1645.
2 v. in 1 : plates, port. ; 43 cm. 1645
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Table 4 from Spigelius' De Formato Foetu

This collected edition of his works contains the three published during his lifetime -- Isagogae in rem herbariam (1606), De lumbrico lato liber (1618) and De semitertiana (1624) -- as well as De humani corporis fabrica libri X (1627), and De formatu foetu (1626), left in manuscript on Spiegel's death. De humani corporis fabrica was edited by Daniel Bucretius or Rindfleisch, who obtained from the heirs of Casserio seventy-eight anatomical plates by the German draftsman and engraver Joseph Maurer, originally prepared to illustrate Casserio's unfinished Theatrum Anatomicum.

Bucetius removed one spoiled plate and added twenty others drawn by Odoardo Fialetti and engraved by Francesco Valesio; five of these, depicting parts of the vascular and nervous systems, were derived from Vesalius. De Formatu Foetu was edited by Spiegel's son-in-law Liberalis Crema, who illustrated the 1626 edition with nine copperplates purchased from Casserio's grandson; these plates, which depict the pregnant uterus, placenta and fetus, are among Casserio's most beautiful engravings. In the Opera Omnia Vander Linden added to De Formatu Foetu a tenth Casserian engraving representing the hymen, so that this edition of Spiegel's works "constitutes the most complete collection of original impressions of the eighty-seven plates from Casserius' legacy and the twenty added to them by Bucretius" (Choulant, p. 227).

In addition to the five works by Spiegel, the Opera Omnia contains Gaspare Aselli's De lactibus, Johannes de Waal's Epistolae Duae, de Motu Chyli & Sanguinis, vander Linden's De monstrosis vermibus, observatio rara; and the fifth printing of William Harvey's De motu cordis. The Opera Omnia was the most elaborate work to which Harvey contributed; a portrait, painted when he was seventy-nine, shows Harvey with this edition of Spiegel's works spread open before him.

—J. Norman, 2006