Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal [...].

8vo: [22]-615, [23] pp.; 10 pl. (some soiling and spotting, sm. hole in the plate of p. 61).

Contemp. sheep, gilt. orn. spine with raised bands, sprinkled edges (local stains on covers). Nice copy.

Rare Brussels ed., published only a year after the original in Paris in 1707, of the surgery courses given by Dionis (1643-1718) at the Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants. Ill. with 10 full-page engr. plates and 51 engr. in-text, figuring the author, surgeon's instruments and bandages. This work opened a new era in which French surgical teaching dominated Europe. Dionis was surgeon of the French royal family.
Ref. Wellcome 471. - Blake 121. - Bibl. Walleriana 2474. - Not in Garrisson and Morton, Honeyman.
Prov. Contemp. ms. entries by 2 "garsons chirurgiens".