Live auction - Lot 690
[Medicine - Surgery]
Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal. Huitième édition [...].
Paris, widow d'Houry, 1777
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
8vo: portrait-front.-xvi-724 pp.; 16 pl. (occ. foxing).
Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, marbled edges matching endpapers (sl. rubbed, joints parlty split).
Eighth edition of this work on surgery by the French anatomist and obstetrics surgeon P. Dionis (1643-1718). Illustrated with an engr. author's portrait, 1 frontispiece (amphiteater lesson), 16 plates (2 fold.) and 61 in texto woodcuts. "Dionis taught operative surgery at the Jardin-du-Roi, a famous training ground for surgeons" (Garrison & Morton).
Ref. Wellcome II:471 (723 pp.). - Blake 121. - Cp. Garrison & Morton 5575 (1710 ed.) and Bibl. Walleriana (other ed.).
Prov. Barret 1792 (ms. ownership entry).