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MAGNI, Pietro Paolo (b. 1525). Discorsisopra il modo di fare i cauterii ò rottorii à corpi humani... Brescia: Bartholomeo Fontana, 1618.
4o (195 x 144 mm). Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut portrait and numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments. (Some minor mold-spotting.) Modern boards.
Magni was a surgeon in Piacenza who also wrote an important treatise describing the art of blood-letting, which was also published by Fontana in Brescia the same year. The present work was first published in 1588. NLM/Krivatsy 7267; Waller 6143; Wellcome I, 3964.
[With:] [MEDICAL INTRUMENTS]. Anonymous plate atlas containing 46 engraved folding plates of various medical instruments. Late 18th-century (some plates dated 1787). 4o, contemporary half calf. Possibly from an edition of Bell's A System of Surgery. (2)
4o (195 x 144 mm). Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut portrait and numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments. (Some minor mold-spotting.) Modern boards.
Magni was a surgeon in Piacenza who also wrote an important treatise describing the art of blood-letting, which was also published by Fontana in Brescia the same year. The present work was first published in 1588. NLM/Krivatsy 7267; Waller 6143; Wellcome I, 3964.
[With:] [MEDICAL INTRUMENTS]. Anonymous plate atlas containing 46 engraved folding plates of various medical instruments. Late 18th-century (some plates dated 1787). 4o, contemporary half calf. Possibly from an edition of Bell's A System of Surgery. (2)