FABRY VON HILDEN, Wilhelm. Observationum & curationum chirurgicarum centuriae..., Lyons: Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1641. 2 parts in one volume, 4, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 titles, the first printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations (most leaves with small waterstain in upper margin, lightly spotted throughout), contemporary calf, raised bands, spine gilt in copartments with floral motifs, red morocco lettering-piece (extremities very lightly rubbed), signature on second title.

FABRY VON HILDEN, Wilhelm. Observationum & curationum chirurgicarum centuriae..., Lyons: Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1641. 2 parts in one volume, 4, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 titles, the first printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations (most leaves with small waterstain in upper margin, lightly spotted throughout), contemporary calf, raised bands, spine gilt in copartments with floral motifs, red morocco lettering-piece (extremities very lightly rubbed), signature on second title.

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Fabry von Hilden's first five Centuriae. This was his "most important work; it was the best collection of case-records available for many years. Among other things, Fabricius used a magnet to extract an iron splinter from the eye - an idea suggested to him by his wife - and he described the first field-chest of drugs for army use. He was the first to remove a gallstone from a living patient (1618)" (GM). The Centuriae were originally published in five illustrated volumes of one hundred reports each between 1606 and 1627. A sixth volume was published posthumously in 1641. GM 5570; Norman 754; Wellcome III, p. 4.