Live auction - Lot 1120
[Medicine - Surgery]
Magazyn, ofte Wapen-Huys [...].
Dordrecht, J. Savry, 1657
Hammer price: €
200
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo: [12, incl. engr. title]-272-[1-1 bl.]-224-[24 of 42)] pp.; 42 (of 44) pl. (pl. 9 and 33 missing, also 2L8 and 2M1-8 (i.e. part of "Bladt-Wijser der Genesingen" and errata ff.); edges engr. title frayed and sl. cut short, last printed f. def., some usual brown. and soiling).
Contemp. vellum, flat spine, red edges.
First Dutch edition after the orig. Latin ed. of the "Armamentarium chirurgicum" by J. Scultetus (1595-1645), a comprehensive presentation of the instruments, bandages and apparatus of that time. Ill. with an engr. title and 42 engr. pl. showing a variety of surgical instruments, orthopedic devices, trepanations, removal of tumors and more.
Ref. STCN. - Krivatsy 10754. - Cp. Walleriana, Garrison & Morton. - Not in Wellcome.