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SCULTETUS, JOHANNES, the Elder. Cheiroplotheke; seu . . . Armamentarium chirurgicum . . . Editio Quinta. 15 folding engraved plates and 28 full-page illustrations. [24], 317, [11] pages, including engraved additional title. 8vo, 177x114 mm, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened with small piece missing; contents clean apart from show-through on leaves with full-page illustrations and few small ink blots on page 17, short clean tear in blank outer margin of plate 35. Later ownership inscription ("Ex Libris Bartholomei Rivierii") on front pastedown. Venice: Combi & La Noù, 1665
"A complete catalogue of all known surgical instruments of the period, of the methods of bandaging and splinting, and of a vast number of operative procedures, all of which are portrayed in the book's forty-three engraved plates"--Norman 1912 (1655 original edition). Garrison-Morton 3669.1, 5571; Heirs of Hippocrates 466; Krivatsy 10750 (this edition).
