VICARY, Thomas. The English Mans Treasure. With the True Anatomie of Mans bodie... London: Thomas Creede, 1613.
VICARY, Thomas. The English Mans Treasure. With the True Anatomie of Mans bodie... London: Thomas Creede, 1613.

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VICARY, Thomas. The English Mans Treasure. With the True Anatomie of Mans bodie... London: Thomas Creede, 1613.

4o (176 x 132 mm). Full-page woodcut of a skeleton. Black letter. Late 19th-/early 20th-century green half morocco.

Sixth edition. The text has been proved to be a transcript of a fourteenth-century manuscript in English, which itself was based on Lanfranc and Henri de Mondeville with a few short additional passages. All early editions of Vicary's work are scarce. NLM/Krivatsky 12390; Osler 4168; STC 24710.

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