Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 202

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Paré, Ambroise (1510?-1590)
The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey.

London: Printed by Richard Cotes and Willi[am] Du-gard, to be sold by John Clarke, 1649.



Folio, second edition in English, illustrated with text woodcuts throughout; engraved title page, with separate title page for Aggeiologia: or, a Description of the Vessels in the Body of Man, illustrated with three full-paged woodcuts of the circulatory system; other illustrations include animals, monstrous births, anatomical illustrations, portraits, images of surgical instruments, and multi-person procedures (with devices) for performing surgery, setting bones, and so on; bound in full leather, older boards, crudely rebacked and repaired, page edges delicate, marginal worming, a dozen or so leaves with closed tears, a corner or two torn with loss, other signs of use, 12 3/4 x 8 in.

Wing P-349; ESTC R913.