SCULTETUS JOHANNES the Elder Armamentarium chirurgicum bipa

Sale 1997 - Lot 334

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SCULTETUS, JOHANNES, the Elder. Armamentarium chirurgicum bipartitum. 56 engraved plates of surgical instruments and procedures. [8], 3-156, 144, [27] pages. 4to, 18th-century 1/2 vellum, patterned paper boards, spine heavily darkened, with paper shelf label; contents browned, title loose, with institutional stamp; bookplates. Frankfurt: sumptibus viduae Joan. Gerlini, 1666

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First published in 1655, " . . . a complete catalogue of all known surgical instruments of the period, of the methods of bandaging and splinting, and of a vast number of operative procedures, all of which are portrayed in the book's forty-three engraved plates"--Norman 1912. Garrison-Morton 5571; Heirs of Hippocrates 466 (all citing the original edition); Krivatsy 10751 (this edition).