ABUL QASIM [Albucasis] (936-1013). De chirurgia. Arabice et Latine, edited by John Channing, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1778, 2 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION IN ARABIC, woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments (perforation to titles, also R4 of vol. I, and 3T4 and 3U1 of vol. II, cancellation stamp on verso of each title and accession no. in ink at foot of following leaf, some light spotting), brown library buckram. [Blake p. 1; GM 5550; Waller 173; Wellcome II, p. 5] Provenance: JCL (Senn Collection) (2)

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ABUL QASIM [Albucasis] (936-1013). De chirurgia. Arabice et Latine, edited by John Channing, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1778, 2 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION IN ARABIC, woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments (perforation to titles, also R4 of vol. I, and 3T4 and 3U1 of vol. II, cancellation stamp on verso of each title and accession no. in ink at foot of following leaf, some light spotting), brown library buckram. [Blake p. 1; GM 5550; Waller 173; Wellcome II, p. 5] Provenance: JCL (Senn Collection) (2)

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GM: "The surgical section of Albucasis's Altasrif, the first rational, complete and illustrated treatise on surgery and surgical instruments. During the Middle Ages it was the leading textbook on surgery until superseded by Saliceto. This is the first edition in Arabic, and the first modern edition of the text. A Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona was printed in Venice in 1497."

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