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Rhinoplastik oder die Kunst den Verlust der Nase organisch zu ersetzen. Berlin: Realschulbuch, 1818.
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GRAEFE, Carl Ferdinand von (1787-1840)
Rhinoplastik oder die Kunst den Verlust der Nase organisch zu ersetzen. Berlin: Realschulbuch, 1818.
Extremely rare first edition of the founding work describing the plastic surgical procedures for altering and reconstructing the nose. 'The first great treatise on plastic surgery after Tagliacozzi and Carpue. [Von Graefe's] pioneer work in introducing the Indian method and reviving the Tagliacotian mathod of rhinoplasty in Germany stimulated the development of plastic surgery throughout Europe and in the United States' (Gnudi & Webster 321). The plates include the most complete illustration of the arm-flap rhinoplasty after Tagliacozzi, as well as von Graefe's refinements of the Indian forehead-flap method. Von Graefe's use of the term 'Rhinoplastik' probably contributed to the field's name of 'plastic surgery'. Very rare: no copies are shown in Osler, Cushing, Orr, Reynolds or Heirs of Hippocrates, and this is the first complete copy to be offered at auction in almost fifteen years. GM 5738; Wallace 15; Waller 3691; Wellcome III, 143.
Quarto (257 x 208 mm). 6 folding engraved plates by E. Lud Meyer and C.F. Thiele (plates II, IV and V frayed at fore-edge with some minor tears and nicks into plate area but not touching the illustration, final text leaf and plate V loose and a couple of other plates coming loose, some light spotting, staining and spotting, heaviest to title and plates). Later 19th-century cloth-backed boards (worn, with backstrip almost detached, extremities rubbed).
Rhinoplastik oder die Kunst den Verlust der Nase organisch zu ersetzen. Berlin: Realschulbuch, 1818.
Extremely rare first edition of the founding work describing the plastic surgical procedures for altering and reconstructing the nose. 'The first great treatise on plastic surgery after Tagliacozzi and Carpue. [Von Graefe's] pioneer work in introducing the Indian method and reviving the Tagliacotian mathod of rhinoplasty in Germany stimulated the development of plastic surgery throughout Europe and in the United States' (Gnudi & Webster 321). The plates include the most complete illustration of the arm-flap rhinoplasty after Tagliacozzi, as well as von Graefe's refinements of the Indian forehead-flap method. Von Graefe's use of the term 'Rhinoplastik' probably contributed to the field's name of 'plastic surgery'. Very rare: no copies are shown in Osler, Cushing, Orr, Reynolds or Heirs of Hippocrates, and this is the first complete copy to be offered at auction in almost fifteen years. GM 5738; Wallace 15; Waller 3691; Wellcome III, 143.
Quarto (257 x 208 mm). 6 folding engraved plates by E. Lud Meyer and C.F. Thiele (plates II, IV and V frayed at fore-edge with some minor tears and nicks into plate area but not touching the illustration, final text leaf and plate V loose and a couple of other plates coming loose, some light spotting, staining and spotting, heaviest to title and plates). Later 19th-century cloth-backed boards (worn, with backstrip almost detached, extremities rubbed).
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