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Gallery Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.

private collection, Dallas, TX

Trade book disbound and guarded. Limp vellum binding in veiny calf (Pam Barrios’ 3 piece technique), packed sewing on alum-tawed slips. Hand sewn silk secondary endbands over reverse bead primary endband. Gilded top edge. Yapp foredge with ties. Bound 2008.

8.75 x 6 x1 .25”

Mary Roach’s well-researched and amusing text details scientific research on human cadavers. Drawings from Andreas Vesalius’ 1543 De humani corporis fabrica visible through case. First and last signatures of the book are additional folios of Vesalius drawings interleaved with folios of thin vellum.

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.

private collection, Dallas, TX

Trade book disbound and guarded. Limp vellum binding in veiny calf (Pam Barrios’ 3 piece technique), packed sewing on alum-tawed slips. Hand sewn silk secondary endbands over reverse bead primary endband. Gilded top edge. Yapp foredge with ties. Bound 2008.

8.75 x 6 x1 .25”

Mary Roach’s well-researched and amusing text details scientific research on human cadavers. Drawings from Andreas Vesalius’ 1543 De humani corporis fabrica visible through case. First and last signatures of the book are additional folios of Vesalius drawings interleaved with folios of thin vellum.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.

private collection, Dallas, TX

Trade book disbound and guarded. Limp vellum binding in veiny calf (Pam Barrios’ 3 piece technique), packed sewing on alum-tawed slips. Hand sewn silk secondary endbands over reverse bead primary endband. Gilded top edge. Yapp foredge with ties. Bound 2008.

8.75 x 6 x1 .25”

Mary Roach’s well-researched and amusing text details scientific research on human cadavers. Drawings from Andreas Vesalius’ 1543 De humani corporis fabrica visible through case. First and last signatures of the book are additional folios of Vesalius drawings interleaved with folios of thin vellum.

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