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PARÉ, AMBROISE. Les Oeuvres. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border; over 300 text woodcuts of anatomical subjects, surgical instruments and procedures, monsters and freaks of nature, etc. [26] of [28], 1245, [169] pages; lacks the portrait and the unnumbered 2-leaf insert (Methodique Division et Denombrement des maladies qui surviennent aux Yeux) between pages 604 and 605. Folio, 344x220 mm, 17th-century calf gilt, joints reinforced but cracked and chipped, cover corners worn; contents toned or browned with scattered foxing, marginal worming chiefly through first half of volume, stain through M1-6. Bookplates of the Strassburg anatomist Thomas Lauth (1758-1826) and Edward Delos Churchill (1895-1972), former Chief of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and John Homans Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1585
Fourth collected edition of the works of the outstanding figure of Renaissance surgery, " . . . the most highly prized of the collected editions, and rightly so. Carefully revised by the author, it was the last one to be seen personally through the press by him; and . . . outwardly a more majestic tome than the earlier collected editions"--Doe 31. Tchemerzine (1977) V, 42a.
