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[Medicine & Science] Paré, Ambroise (1510?-1590) The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey.
London: Printed by Richard Cotes & William Du-Gard, to be sold by John Clarke, 1649.
Second edition, folio, engraved title with a portrait of Paré at the top, flanked by physicians performing trepanning procedures and an apothecary in his workshop, with a skeleton and skinless man on each side of the title, tools of distillation and surgery at the foot of the plate, with the bottom right corner depicting monstrous births, this composition by Thomas Cecil (fl. 1626-1640), signed in the plate; translated from the French by Thomas Johnson, illustrated with text woodcuts throughout; with separate title page for Aggeiologia: or, a Description of the Vessels in the Body of Man, illustrated with three full-paged woodcuts of the circulatory system; other illustrations include animals, monstrous births, anatomical illustrations, portraits, images of surgical instruments, and multi-person procedures (with devices) for performing surgery, setting bones, and so on; this copy trimmed very close with some marginal material slightly cropped, including some headlines, and occasionally touching side notes; the three leaves of large woodcuts illustrating the vascular system folded, the first with losses and clumsy repairs; spots, and stains from spills fairly consistently throughout; in later leather boards, in need of resewing and rebacking, front board completely detached, sewing perished, a good candidate for restoration, 12 x 8 in.
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