Les oeuvres.

Paris, J. du Puys or G. Buon, 1585]

€ 500 / 600

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Folio (title missing which complicates defining the date and edition).

Used binding. S.w.a.f.

Later edition of the collected medical writings of the great 16th-c. military surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510-1590), dealing i.a. with the plague, protheses and monsters. With numerous woodcut head- and endpieces and hundreds of woodcut ill. depicting anatomical details, surgical instruments, poisonous animals and monsters, etc.