FIORAVANTI, Leonardo [1517-1588]. Il tesoro della vita humana. Venice: Heredi di Melchior Sessa, 1582. 12/so (141 x 89 mm). Woodcut portrait of author (portrait slightly trimmed at left margin, title-page browned). Modern half morocco, green cloth (slightly soiled). Provenance: Thomas Boraston (ownership inscription on title); British Museum (deaccession stamps); Wellcome Library (bookplate on front pastedown and deaccession stamp on verso of title). An important work in plastic surgery, and including an early description of the new technique of the Vianeo family in Tropea for reattaching cut-off noses. The author persuaded the Vianeo brothers to allow him to watch the procedure on the pretence that he wished to arrange for the treatment of a relative who had lost his nose in a fight. Waller 3051; Wellcome 2305.

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FIORAVANTI, Leonardo [1517-1588]. Il tesoro della vita humana. Venice: Heredi di Melchior Sessa, 1582. 12/so (141 x 89 mm). Woodcut portrait of author (portrait slightly trimmed at left margin, title-page browned). Modern half morocco, green cloth (slightly soiled). Provenance: Thomas Boraston (ownership inscription on title); British Museum (deaccession stamps); Wellcome Library (bookplate on front pastedown and deaccession stamp on verso of title). An important work in plastic surgery, and including an early description of the new technique of the Vianeo family in Tropea for reattaching cut-off noses. The author persuaded the Vianeo brothers to allow him to watch the procedure on the pretence that he wished to arrange for the treatment of a relative who had lost his nose in a fight. Waller 3051; Wellcome 2305.