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

2 vol., 8vo: xxxii-1/480, 481/920 pp. (some min. staining).

Contemp. mottled calf (lower corners of 2nd vol. def., covers of 1st vol. sl. rubbed), gilt orn. spines with 5 raised bands (def. at tails, sm. def. on upper spine of 1st vol.), red edges, marbled endpapers.

Sixth edition of this work on surgery by the French anatomist and obstetric surgeon P. Dionis. Illustrated with an engr. author's portrait, a front., 2 fold. pl., 14 full-page pl. and 52 in-text woodcuts. "Dionis taught operative surgery at the Jardin-du-Roi, a famous training ground for surgeons" (Garrison & Morton).
Ref. Blake 121. - Wellcome II:471. - Cp. Garrison & Morton, 5th ed., 5575.
Prov. Ms. ownership entries on recto portrait, half title and recto full-page pl.