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Éditions du XVI
e
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265 – (Sciences, Médecine)
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PARÉ, Ambroise.- Opera chirurgica [...]. A docto
viro, plerisque locis recognita : & latinitate donata. Jacobi Guillemeau, regii
et Parisiensis chirurgi labore et diligentia. Omnia nunc demum magno studio
elimata : et novis iconibus elegantissimis illustrata [...].
Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt am Main], apud Joannem Feyrabend, impensis
Petri Fischeri, 1594.
In-f°: [12]-851-[26]-[1 bl.] pp. (some pp. slightly browned, marginal dampstains, stains, some marginal tears,
one repaired at p. 205, rare foxing and handwritten annotations, marginal wormholes in the 2
d
half).
Contemporary binding: vellum with small flaps and visible sewing, boards encircled with a blind fillet, upper
board with gilt monogram and the date 1594, flat spine (soiled and partly rubbed, joints partly reinforced and
split, 2 corners strongly dulled, provenance cut off the upper flyleaf…).
Est.
:
1.500/ 2.000 €
Second edition of the translation by Jacques Guillemeau (1549-1613) of the works collection
of Paré (1509 ?-1590). Illustrated with more than 300 woodcuts figuring portraits (Paré,
Hippocrates, Galen), skelettons, body parts and organs, animals, monsters and freaks of
nature, war injuries, distillation systems, instruments, etc. With two large printer's marks,
ornemental initial letters (some large), head- and tail-pieces. The first collected edition was
published in French in 1579 and was translated in Latin 3 years later by Guillemeau, a
surgeon and obstetrician who was the pupil of Paré who took care of him from 1569 till
1584.
# Durling 3532 ; # Adams P-314 ; # Bibl. Walleriana 7176 ; # USTC 679665 ; # VD16 ZV-
12172 ; # not in Wellcome, Garrisson & Morton, Machiels, Soltész.
▲Provenance : emblazoned ex-libris with the motto "Ars et fortuna beabunt [Art and chance
make happy]"; monogram "M S D" (incomplete (?), supra libros) ; handwritten monogram
dated 1715 on the title-page.
¶ Seconde édition de la traduction des oeuvres de Paré par son élève le chirurgien Guillemeau. Illustré
de plus de 300 in texto. Plein vélin de l'ép. (qqs pp. lég. brunies, mouill. marg., galeries ou trous de vers
marg. dans la 2e moitié, rel. défraîchie et part. frottée).
266 – (Voyage & Architecture)
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MARLIANI, Giovanni Bartolomeo.- Urbis Romae
topographia. Accuraté, tum ex veterum, tum etiam recentiorum auctorum,
fontibus austa [...].
Venitiis, apud Hieronymum Francinum, 1588.
In-8°: [8]-176-[8] lvs (margins of title-page repaired, foxing, copy slightly browned, wormholes, some with
minimal lacks of text, marginal dampstains in the end).
19
th
Century binding: half glazed green calf, marbled paper boards, ribbed spine, sprinkled edges (joints, turn
ins and edges slightly rubbed, flyleaves renewed).
Est.
:
500/ 600 €
Pocket guide-book to Rome's antiquities by Marliani (1488-1566) illustrated with
89 woodcuts and one full-page. The first edition was published in Rome in 1534 under the
title "Antiquae Romae topographia, libri septem".
# Adams M-613 ; # Machiels M-197 ; # Mortimer 284 ; # STC Italy 418 ; # USTC 841013 ;
# not in Soltész.
¶ Petit guide des monuments et statues antiques de Rome illustré de 89 in texto et d'1 pleine page.
Demi-veau vert glacé du 19e s. (marges du titre restaurées, rouss., galeries et trous de vers, parfois
avec petits manques de texte).