HEISTER, Lorenz. Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wund-Artzney gehöret, nach der neuesten und besten Art gründlich abgehandelt, Frankfurt and Augsburg, 1739, M. Wolff, 1739, 2 volumes in one, small 4°, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait and 25 plates only, most folding (plate VI supplied in facsimile, some soiling and some damage to other plates, several restored, title and preliminaries wormed at lower margin with some repairs), contemporary calf-backed yellow boards (soiled); sold not subject to return.

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HEISTER, Lorenz. Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wund-Artzney gehöret, nach der neuesten und besten Art gründlich abgehandelt, Frankfurt and Augsburg, 1739, M. Wolff, 1739, 2 volumes in one, small 4°, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait and 25 plates only, most folding (plate VI supplied in facsimile, some soiling and some damage to other plates, several restored, title and preliminaries wormed at lower margin with some repairs), contemporary calf-backed yellow boards (soiled); sold not subject to return.

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This major treatise, by the founder of scientific surgery in Germany, was first published by J. Hoffmann in Nuremberg in 1718.

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