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(SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.) Scultetus, Johannes, the Elder. Het Vermeerderde Wapenhuis der Heel-Meesters. 86 engraved plates. [44], 544; [2], 545-1094, [84] pages, including engraved additional title. 2 volumes. 8vo, 192x120 mm, modern boards with spine titles in ink; mostly marginal foxing in both volumes, light marginal dampstaining on a few plates and text leaves in second volume, plate 52 cropped in outer margin slightly entering image. Amsterdam: Jansoon van Waesberge, 1748
First published in 1655 in Latin and widely reprinted and translated, " . . . 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" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 5571; Heirs of Hippocrates 466; Norman 1912 (all citing the original edition).
