Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
ALBUCASIS [i. e., ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI]; et al. Methodus medendi . . . cum instrumentis, ad omnes fere morbos . . . depictis [and other texts]. Woodcut text illustrations of surgical instruments. [32], 342, [2] leaves, including colophon leaf. Small folio, 19th-century 1/2 mottled calf gilt, spine missing top and bottom compartments, front cover detached; contents toned, title soiled and creased, with old stamps, shaved along fore edge; institutional bookplate. Basel: Henricus Petri, (1541)

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The surgical section of the medical encyclopedia of Abulcasis (d. 1013), the outstanding surgeon of medieval Islam, reprinted in this edition with later surgical and medical writings by Roland of Parma, Roger of Salerno, Constantine the African, and Antonio Gazio. DSB XIV, Durling 22; Sarton I, 681 and 769, and II, 435 and 653.