CROCE GIOVANNI ANDREA DELLA Cirugia Universale e Perfetta 1

Sale 1979 - Lot 270

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CROCE, GIOVANNI ANDREA DELLA. Cirugia Universale e Perfetta. Numerous woodcut text illustrations of surgical instruments and procedures. [14] (of [16]), 540 pages; lacks a2 (leaf after title). Folio, modern 1/4 mottled sheep gilt, spine ends and raised bands rubbed, short crack at bottom of front joint; contents browned, scattered stains, early signatures on title. Venice: Niccolò Pezzana, 1661

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"Croce improved the instruments for trephination, and published classic woodcuts depicting the operation, including the first illustration of a neurological surgery actually taking place. The work is also important for Croce's descriptions of cranial and cerebral diseases. In hundreds of woodcuts of instruments and procedures Croce illustrated all of the instruments used before and during his own time"--Garrison-Morton 4850.4 (1573 original edition in Latin). Krivatsy 2909 (this edition).