PARÉ AMBROISE De Chirurgie ende Opera van alle Wercken van M

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PARÉ, AMBROISE. De Chirurgie, ende Opera van alle Wercken, van Mr. Ambrosius Paré [with Jean Fernel, Beschrijvinghe der Deelen des Menschelijcken Lichaems]. Over 300 woodcut text illustrations of anatomical subjects, surgical instruments and procedures, monsters and freaks of nature, etc. [12], 940, [12], 42, [1] pages; lacks 2Y2-3 (pages 707-711, at the beginning of Van de Generatie der Menschen, on human reproduction). Printed in black letter, with general title in red and black. Folio, contemporary Dutch vellum with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, ties lacking, small piece of vellum missing from center of front cover, turn-ins sprung, front hinge partly cracked. Amsterdam: Jan Fredericksz. Stam, 1655

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Later edition of the 1592 Dutch version of Paré's collected works. According to Doe this is the only one of the 4 1655 issues to include Fernel's tract on human anatomy. Doe 67; Krivatsy 8602; not in Sherrington.