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FABRY VON HILDEN, WILHELM. Opera quae extant omnia . . . Additus . . . Marci Aurelii Severini Liber de efficaci medicina. Numerous woodcut text illustrations, chiefly of surgical instruments. [36], 1044, [20]; [16], 272, [12] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 18th-century mottled calf gilt, spine ends chipped, joints cracked; contents heavily browned. Frankfurt am Main: Balthasar Christoph Wust Jun. for Johann Ludwig Dufour, 1682 [Severino title page dated 1671, with Beyer heirs imprint]
The collected works of Fabry (1560-1624), " . . . usually regarded as the 'Father of German Surgery' . . . a bold and skillful operator and inventor of many new instruments"--Garrison, page 275. Heirs of Hippocrates 396 (1646 edition); Krivatsy 3845 (this edition). According to an early 19th-century note on the front free endpaper, this copy belonged to the scientist Louis Guillaume Le Monnier (see DSB VIII, 176-78), and was sold in the 1803 auction of his library in Paris. Brunet II, 1152.
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