Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GUY DE CHAULIAC. La Grande Chirurgie . . . restituée par M. Laurens Joubert. Woodcut portrait of Joubert on title verso. [24], 605, [23] pages, including final blank * JOUBERT, LAURENS. Annotations . . . sur toute la Chirurgie de M. Guy de Chauliac. Woodcut portrait of Joubert on title verso and text illustrations of surgical instruments. [16], 355, [5] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary vellum, spine darkened, with early hand-written title and dates; contents browned, occasional early underscoring. Krivatsy 5155, 6286.Lyon: Simon Rigaud, 1642; 1642

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The standard surgical treatise of the later Middle Ages, completed in 1363, including an account of the dentistry of the period. The first printed edition was a French translation published in 1478. Sarton III, 1690-94.