Live auction - Lot 358
[Medicine]
Les oeuvres [...]. Dixiesme édition. Avec les pourtraits & figures, tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres.
Lyon, C. Prost, 1641
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
Folio: [22]-846 [= 854]-[80] pp. (quire Pp (except Pp4) on "de la grosse Verole" missing, some light water stains in introduction, some old, sm. marg. restorations, ink stain on p. 420, some dampst. on the last ff.).
18th c. sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (corners bumped, head and tail sl. rubbed).
Collected medical writings of A. Paré (1510-1590), with liminary poetry by i.a. Ronsard. Engr. ill. on title by G. Huvel and woodcuts: author's portrait and hundreds in-text ill. showing anatomical details, surgical instruments, poisonous animals and monsters. Title printed in red & black.
Ref. Doe 137. - Cp. Krivatsy 8595, Wellcome IV:295.