Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
PARÉ, AMBROISE. Opera chirurgica. Latin translation by Jacques Guillemeau. Woodcut portrait of Paré on (:)4v; 317 text illustrations of anatomical subjects, surgical instruments and procedures, monsters and freaks of nature, etc. [12], 851, [27] (of [29]) pages, including colophon leaf; lacks final blank. Folio, 334x215 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, with modern silk ties; scattered marginal foxing, occasional insignificant marginal worming; cloth folding case. Bookplate and stamps of Juan Carlos Ahumada. Frankfurt am Main: Johannes Feyerabend for Peter Fischer, 1594
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Second collected edition in Latin of Paré's writings. Guillemeau's translation first appeared in 1582. Doe 48; Durling 3532.