MEDICINE - XVIIIth c. | MEDICINE - SCULTET, Jean
The arcenal of surgery. Followed, in the second part, by : Observations and cures
Lion, chez Léonard de La Roche, 1712. Table, 369 pp; 138 pp, table.
In-4, full calf. Covers damaged. 369pp. 1f. 138pp. & 11ff. of table, illustrated with 50 plates of surgical instruments and various operations, some of which are folded and two of which represent a monster, 1 figure in text.
Two parts in one. Complete set. The work owes its reputation to the abundance of engravings showing surgical instruments, apparatus and operations in use in the 17th & 18th centuries. The first edition had only 43 plates. Garrison Morton, 5571 (for the 1st Latin edition of 1655).
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