PARE, Ambroise (1510-1590). Les Oeuvres. Avec les figures & portraicts tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres, Paris: Gabriel Buon, [1575], 2°, title with woodcut architectural border, woodcut portrait of Paré, numerous woodcut illustrations of anatomical figures, surgical operations and instruments (lacking 45pp. index at end, title cut down with loss of date and bottom part of border and laid down, *2r heavily soiled at lower margin, manuscript translation into French of the Latin sonnet to Paré, dated 1892, mounted beside the printed version on *4r, early leaves with small stab mark at uppper margin, r5v and r6r with soil mark at inner margin, some light browning and slight creasing, also some waterstaining, of lower margins, F5 and 2B5 torn at foot, 2T1 repaired, occasional blue crayon marks), early 20th-century half calf (rubbed) [Durling 3530; Waller 7171; Wellcome I, 4819] Provenance: Legrand (signature on *2); Dr. M.F. Vacher 1890 (signature on *2 and p.906); Dr. Jules Vacher 1891 Versailles (inscription in blue crayon at foot of p. 451); JCL, gift of Dr. Octave Pasteau. Sold not subject to return.