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HEISTER, LORENZ. Chirurgie . . . Neue viel vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. 37 (of 38) folding engraved plates of surgical instruments and procedures; lacks plate 22 (showing mastectomy, replaced with facsimile). [16], 1078, [24] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait. 4to, contemporary vellum; contents toned, some marginal dampstaining, most noticeably at beginning of volume, variously affecting plates, plates 1 and 7 frayed along fore edge. Nuremberg: Johann Adam Stein & Gabriel Nicolaus Raspé, 1747
"Heister was the founder of scientific surgery in Germany. His book . . . was the most popular surgical text of the 18th century"--Garrison-Morton 5576 (1718 original edition).
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