Leonardo da Vinci. Anatomical Studies. The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle plus one sheet from the Palace Museum at Weimar. Collection of 175 (5 double full-page) sheets with 406 illustrations on both sides facsimilated in 3-9 colors on buff laid cardboard. Ed. by Kenneth D. Keele and R. Carlo Pedretti. Facsimile case and 2 text vols. (in English, 474; 558 pp., c. 400 illustrations). 1980. Large folio (c. 48 x 33 cm). Royal blue orig. leather case and uniform orig. leather vols. with gilt title on the back and imitated ribs. Gilt edges (text vols.).

unfolded by the comprehensive text volumes. These containing the transcriptions of the original texts written in reflected face together with the English translation, and – especially medical – notes on the drawings reproduced additionally here.

Carlo Pedretti, director of the Armand Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies at the University of California in Los Angeles is, together with Lord Kenneth Clark, author of numerous relevant publications. The medical man Keele, specialized in especially the anatomical studies, i. a. wrote the commentary to the Leonardo exhibition at Queen’s Gallery in 1969-70. – Sir Robin Mackworth-Young, curator at Windsor Castle, approved printing.

Out  of  print  since  long  in the Italian (480 copies) and the German (300 copies) editions, now also the English version limited to 998 numbered copies approaches its end. Reason enough thus

Offer no. 28,324 / EUR  8025. / Export price EUR  7500. (c. US$ 11222.) + shipping