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Folio (352 × 225 mm), pp. [xii], 884, [24] including errata and final blank. Woodcut to title, portrait of the author (aged 68) to p. 8 and 362 woodcuts to the text, numerous metalcut initials. Lightly browned throughout, a few small stains to title and following leaves and a few marginal chips. Early vellum over rigid boards, remnants of old spine label, early ink title to lower edge. Binding quite soiled, upper joint cracked at head, but secure. A very good copy, entirely unsophisticated.
First Latin edition, and the third edition overall of Paré’s magnum opus. ‘This translation into Latin made the work immediately available to all the nations of Europe, since Latin was universally the language of the scholar’ (Doe). Despite the appearance of Jacques Guillemeau’s name on the title-page as translator, Doe doubts the attribution and suggests another, unidentified translator.
Ambroise Paré (c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was France’s most acclaimed Renaissance surgeon, and tended to no less than four successive French kings (Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III). His collected works cover an immense breadth of subjects from surgery, anatomy and obstetrics to the subjects of monsters, deformities and distillation. The woodcuts of the 1582 edition are those of the first and second edition (in French) of 1575 supplemented by those from the second of 1579.
Ambroise Paré (c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was France’s most acclaimed Renaissance surgeon, and tended to no less than four successive French kings (Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III). His collected works cover an immense breadth of subjects from surgery, anatomy and obstetrics to the subjects of monsters, deformities and distillation. The woodcuts of the 1582 edition are those of the first and second edition (in French) of 1575 supplemented by those from the second of 1579.
Doe 46; NLM/Durling 3531, Heirs of Hippocrates 271; Osler 661, Waller 7175; Wellcome I, 4824 and cf. En Français dans la texte 66 (first edition).
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