WOODALL, John (1556?-1643). The Surgeon's Mate; or Military and domestic surgery. Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines and ye exact cure of wounds made by Gun-shott and otherwise... With a treatise of ye cure of ye plague [Viaticum. Revised and inlarged], London: by Rob: Young [J. Legat? a.] (E. P[urslowe] for Nicholas Bourne, 1639, 4 parts in one volume, 2°, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles I (cut down and mounted, several small internal tears affecting image), engraved title with surrounding portraits, 4 engraved plates of surgical instruments, one folding, folding letterpress table of the surgeon's chest, woodcut coat-of-arms at the head of the epistle to Sir Christopher Wren, woodcut of the figure of Mercury on 2L3r, woodcut chemical symbols from 2O2v-2P4v, leaf of commendatory poems bound between pp. 30-31 (outer margin of title soiled and with laminated repair, N3 holed with loss of short word on verso, 2F1v and 2F2r and a few other leaves soiled at margin, heavy stain to 2K2r, dampstain to final leaves of text, 3 plates and table of contents at end, ex library copy with stamps to blank margin of A2, and a further stamp to sectional title to the Viaticum), contemporary calf (rebacked, new endpapers, corners restored). [GM 2144; Krivatsy 13141 (imperfect); STC 25963: "Young pr. the 1st set of signatures; app. Legat the 2nd; Purslowe the 3rd"]

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WOODALL, John (1556?-1643). The Surgeon's Mate; or Military and domestic surgery. Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines and ye exact cure of wounds made by Gun-shott and otherwise... With a treatise of ye cure of ye plague [Viaticum. Revised and inlarged], London: by Rob: Young [J. Legat? a.] (E. P[urslowe] for Nicholas Bourne, 1639, 4 parts in one volume, 2°, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles I (cut down and mounted, several small internal tears affecting image), engraved title with surrounding portraits, 4 engraved plates of surgical instruments, one folding, folding letterpress table of the surgeon's chest, woodcut coat-of-arms at the head of the epistle to Sir Christopher Wren, woodcut of the figure of Mercury on 2L3r, woodcut chemical symbols from 2O2v-2P4v, leaf of commendatory poems bound between pp. 30-31 (outer margin of title soiled and with laminated repair, N3 holed with loss of short word on verso, 2F1v and 2F2r and a few other leaves soiled at margin, heavy stain to 2K2r, dampstain to final leaves of text, 3 plates and table of contents at end, ex library copy with stamps to blank margin of A2, and a further stamp to sectional title to the Viaticum), contemporary calf (rebacked, new endpapers, corners restored). [GM 2144; Krivatsy 13141 (imperfect); STC 25963: "Young pr. the 1st set of signatures; app. Legat the 2nd; Purslowe the 3rd"]

Provenance

Sam Croker 1747, inscription to title; Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, stamps.

Lot Essay

First published in 1617, "chiefly for the benefit of young Sea-Surgions imployed in the East-India Companies affaires," this rare work was the first medical manual written specifically for naval surgeons, providing for every contingency on long voyages through tropical waters. "The second edition includes the first edition of Woodall's collected works. That edition was made required reading for all naval surgeons in the East India Company" (GM).

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