Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
PARÉ, AMBROISE. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey . . . Whereunto are added three Tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the Veines, Arteries, & Nerves. 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 in the second part. [20], 778 [i. e., 764]; [4], 50, [13] pages, including engraved title. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 335x210 mm, 20th-century 1/2 morocco gilt, joints and extremities rubbed; contents heavily browned, scattered marginal dampstains, title torn in outer margin, restored with image loss and silked, lower portion of U1 torn and restored with substantial text and image loss, few other minor repairs, including one causing slight text loss in upper outer corner of 3L1. London: E. C. for John Clarke, 1665

Additional Details

Third collected edition in English of Paré's writings. Doe 53; Krivatsy 8605; Wing P350.