SURGERY. PARÉ Ambroise (circa 1510-1590) Les oeuvres... Lot 92

[SURGERY]. PARÉ Ambroise (circa 1510-1590) Les oeuvres d'Ambroise Paré, conseiller et premier chirurgien du Roy. Reveues & corrigees en plusieurs endroicts, [...]. Avec les figures et Portraicts & figures tant de l'Anatomie que des instruments de Chirurgie, & de plusieurs Monstres. Paris, Nicolas Buon, 1628. In folio (350 x 228 mm), [13] ff, 1320 pp, [57] ff. Half tan basane, speckled paper boards, spine ribbed with gold titles, marbled paper endpapers (later binding). Eighth complete edition of the works of Ambroise Paré with numerous woodcuts in-text, and a portrait of the author engraved by Gilles Horbeck in 1584, hors-texte at the beginning of the volume, introducing the Preface. (Significant staining; pp.700-701, quire half detached from the spine, spine rubbed and cracked, upper headband damaged, small tear not missing on the title page)