Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 546
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SCULTETUS, JOHANNES, the Elder. Cheiroplotheke; seu . . . Armamentarium chirurgicum. 43 full-page engraved illustrations (3 printed out of order, with the correct engravings pasted over). [24], 328, [14] pages, including engraved additional title dated 1657 (partly tinted with ink wash). 8vo, modern 1/2 calf; dampstaining in outer margin of opening leaves with some paper corrosion along fore edges. The Hague: ex officina Adriani Vlacq, 1656 [i. e., 1657]
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First published the year before, " . . . 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 (original edition). Garrison-Morton 5571; Heirs of Hippocrates 466.