Nov 03, 2006 - Sale 2092

Sale 2092 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 674
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GUY DE CHAULIAC. Guydos Questions, newly corrected. Leaves 21-24 and 35-181 only; lacks title and following 3 preliminaries, and leaves 1-20, 25-34, and 182-201 [i. e., 200]. Black letter. 4to, modern 1/4 morocco; contents toned, with marginal soiling and dampstaining, margins of 2P4 and 2Q1 jaggedly trimmed. London: Thomas East, (1579)

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Second edition in English of the standard surgical treatise of the later Middle Ages, Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia magna, dating from the early 1360s. This edition of Robert Copland's 1542 translation is enlarged with English versions of 2 texts by Galen (present in their entirety in this copy) and an antidotary. Durling 2248; STC 12469; Sarton III, 1690-94.