(Sciences, Médecine) - Paré, Ambroise.- Opera chirurgica [...]. Adocto viro, plerisque locis recognita : & latinitate donata. Jacobi Guillemeau, regii et Parisiensis chirurgi labore et diligentia. Omnia nunc demum magno studio elimata : et novis...
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1 .500 / 2.000
Adjudication :
2.400 €
Description
iconibus elegantissimis illustrata [...]. Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt am Main], apud Joannem Feyrabend, impensis Petri Fischeri, 1594. Inf : [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 2d half). Contemporary binding : vellum with small flaps and visible sewing, boards encircled with ablind 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...). 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).
