PARÉ, Ambroise.

Folio, pp. xxii, 787, (8), (iv), (52), 1 leaf (errata). Including the engraved title, 3 leaves of woodcuts in the second part, and numerous woodcuts in the text. Separate title-page to the tract by Spigelius. Title a little soiled and creased near the fore-edge, leaf kkk misbound after p. 384, the 3 leaves of woodcuts folded in at head and/or foot (being larger than the book) with small loss to foot of two, tear without loss in I6, Aa6 and Bb1, a few leaves lightly browned (as usual). Contemporary calf (spine and tips of two corners very neatly repaired), unlettered, no pastedown endpapers. Generally an excellent copy.

Second edition in English of the collected works of Ambroise Paré, the greatest surgeon of the sixteenth century and one of the most influential, and appealing, books in the whole of surgical literature. Apart from being one of the most important and comprehensive surgical works of the period, Paré’s authority extended to anatomy, obstetrics, toxicology, gout, venereal diseases, plague, teratology, the distillation and use of medicines, and medical jurisprudence. Wing P349. See G&M 5565 (first collected edition of 1575). Doe, Bibliography, 52. The anatomical treatise of Spigelius, on the anatomy of the blood vessels and nerves, appears here for the first time in English.