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(SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.) Fritze, Hermann Eduard. Miniatur-Armamentarium; oder, Abbildungen der wichtigsten akiurgischen Instrumente. 20 engraved plates. [2], iv, 44 pages. Small 8vo, 154x109 mm, original wrappers, lower portion of backstrip worn, with small portion missing at bottom; light offsetting from plates throughout, light to moderate foxing through most of volume. Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1836
first edition of an illustrated pocket catalogue of instruments then in use, with a preface by the noted German surgeon Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach; at the end is a list of over 100 authors on surgical subjects from antiquity to the early 19th-century.
