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[TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare (1545-1599)]. READ, Alexander (1586-1641). Chirurgorum Comes: or, the Whole Practice of Chirurgery. Begun by the learned Dr. Read; continued and completed by a member of the College of Physicians in London. London: Edward Jones for Christopher Wilkinson, 1687.
8o (186 x 116 mm). One engraved plate (60mm repair to lower right corner of 2T3, touching catchword, slight marginal soiling, and occasional light spotting). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). Provenance: Thomas Biggs (ownership inscription on front free endpaper); T. Griffin (small ink-stamp at foot of title and head of B1).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the second book of Tagliacozzi's De curtorum chirurgia. No complete translation into English of Tagliacozzi has ever been published. Of the two books of Tagliacozzi's work, the first was concerned with the theory, and this, the second and more interesting, on the practice of (amongst other subjects) the surgical restoration of defects by grafting. Alexander Read was a distinguished Scottish anatomist, surgeon, teacher and author. The anonymous editor and translator felt it worth attributing Read's part of the work to him, even though he had been dead for 36 years at the time of publication. Wing R427; Waller 7781.
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the second book of Tagliacozzi's De curtorum chirurgia. No complete translation into English of Tagliacozzi has ever been published. Of the two books of Tagliacozzi's work, the first was concerned with the theory, and this, the second and more interesting, on the practice of (amongst other subjects) the surgical restoration of defects by grafting. Alexander Read was a distinguished Scottish anatomist, surgeon, teacher and author. The anonymous editor and translator felt it worth attributing Read's part of the work to him, even though he had been dead for 36 years at the time of publication. Wing R427; Waller 7781.