Ventes live - Lot 1374
[Medicine - Surgery]
Oeuvres chirurgicales.
Lyon, J.-A. Huguetan, 1666
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Description du lot
2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo: [16]-1/479, 489/936-[22] pp. (some browning, spotting and dampstaining, a single marginal wormhole throughout first half of the bookblock).
Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, gilt sides, red edges (some sm. def. at upper cover and tail).
Later ed. (first 1623) by the pioneering anatomist and surgeon G. Fabrizi d'Aquapendente (1533-1619), known in medical sciences as "The Father of Embryology". He teached anatomy and performed dissections in Padua. William Harvey was his pupil. Ill. with woodcuts showing surgical instruments.
Ref. Wellcome III:4. - Krivatsy 3817. - Not in Waller.
Prov. Ms. entry on flyleaf. - Name on title (deleted).