Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 258

Price Realized: $ 978
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PARÉ, AMBROISE. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey . . . Together with Three Tractates concerning the Veins, Arteries, and Nerves . . . Translated out of Adrianus Spigelius. Profusion of woodcut illustrations of anatomical subjects, surgical instruments and procedures, monsters and freaks of nature, etc., including 4 full-page depictions of the human circulatory and nervous systems; extraneous engraved portrait of Paré trimmed and mounted opposite general title. [20], 713, [1]; [4], 44, [18] pages, including engraved title. Folio, early 19th-century 1/4 calf, worn, covers detached; contents browned, paper somewhat brittle, scattered marginal stains and clean tears, preliminaries and index leaves frayed and loose, institutional stamp on title; bookplate. Doe 54; Krivatsy 8606; Wing P351. London: Mary Clark for John Clark, 1678