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MEEK'REN, JOBUS VAN. Rare und wunderbare Chyrurgisch- und Geneesskünstige Anmerckungen. Numerous engraved and woodcut text illustrations. [16], 537, [23] pages, including engraved frontispiece. 8vo, 158x101 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink, worn; marginal foxing, occasionally heavy, scattered marginal dampstains and soiling, clean tear in 2E1, front free endpaper loose. Nuremberg: Christoph Gerhard for widow and heirs of Paul Fürst, 1675
first edition in german of an important collection of surgical observations containing the first published report of a bone graft, which appears in the transcription of a letter describing the transplantation of bone from a dog's skull into a Russian nobleman's cranial wound. The text appears on pages 6-7. Garrison-Morton 5735 (1668 original edition in Dutch); Krivatsy 7675 (this edition). No copy of this edition recorded in ABPC, JAP, or RHB.
