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GESNER, Conrad (editor, 1516-1565). De Chirurgia scriptores optimi quique veteres et recentiores, plerique in Germania antehac non editi, nunc primum in unum coniuncti volumen. Zurich: Andreas and Jakob Gessner, 1555.
2° (340 x 220mm). Device on title and another leaf and 260 woodcuts in text. (Dampstain to lower margins of the first few leaves, otherwise only occasional light spotting, old stamp on outer corner of title.) Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, two clasps.
FIRST EDITION of this collection of surgical texts, assembled and edited by Conrad Gesner, who contributed the section De medicinae chirurgicae praestantia et antiquitate. This is a history and bio-bibliography of surgery and surgeons, one of the first of its kind, and covers some 150 authors. Other texts in the volume include Guido Guidi's versions of Galen, Oribasius and Heliodorus, Jean Tagault's De chirurgica institutione, works by Houllier, Jacopo Dondi, Mariano Santo, Angelo Bolognini, Biondo, and Hans Lange, as well as Bartolomeo Maggi's and Alfonso Ferri's treatises on gunshot wounds. The woodcuts include skeletal illustrations taken from Vesalius, depictions of field surgery from Gersdorff, and reduced versions of the figures in Guido Guidi's Chirurgia. The blocks were cut by Jos Murrer. Durling 960; Garrison-Morton 5562; Waller 1959; Wellcome 1460.
2° (340 x 220mm). Device on title and another leaf and 260 woodcuts in text. (Dampstain to lower margins of the first few leaves, otherwise only occasional light spotting, old stamp on outer corner of title.) Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, two clasps.
FIRST EDITION of this collection of surgical texts, assembled and edited by Conrad Gesner, who contributed the section De medicinae chirurgicae praestantia et antiquitate. This is a history and bio-bibliography of surgery and surgeons, one of the first of its kind, and covers some 150 authors. Other texts in the volume include Guido Guidi's versions of Galen, Oribasius and Heliodorus, Jean Tagault's De chirurgica institutione, works by Houllier, Jacopo Dondi, Mariano Santo, Angelo Bolognini, Biondo, and Hans Lange, as well as Bartolomeo Maggi's and Alfonso Ferri's treatises on gunshot wounds. The woodcuts include skeletal illustrations taken from Vesalius, depictions of field surgery from Gersdorff, and reduced versions of the figures in Guido Guidi's Chirurgia. The blocks were cut by Jos Murrer. Durling 960; Garrison-Morton 5562; Waller 1959; Wellcome 1460.
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