LOWE, Peter. A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie. London: Thomas Purfoot, 1634.

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LOWE, Peter. A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie. London: Thomas Purfoot, 1634.

4o (182 x 132 mm). Large woodcut arms on title verso, woodcuts of medical instruments in text. (Last leaf in facsimile, title with margins reinforced, some browning.) Modern cloth, morocco spine label. Provenance: Thomas Addis Emmet, New York (signature dated 1850 on title).

Third edition of this Elizabethan medical treatise. Lowe was the founder of The Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, though much of his life he practiced in France. STC 16871; Waller 6037; Wellcome I, 3879.

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