Specific

• Author:

  PARÉ Ambroise (ca. 1510-150)

• Title:

  OPERA AMBROSII PAREI REGIS PRIMARII ET PARISIENSIS CHIRURGI. AL DOCTO VIRO PLERISQUE LOCIS RECOGNITA: ET LATINITATE DONATA, IACOBI GUILLEMEAU, REGIJ ET PARISIENSIS CHIRUGI LABORE ET  DILIGENTIA. AL CLARISSIMUM VIRUM MARCUM MIRONEM REGIS ARCHIATRUM DIGNISSIMUM.

• Place: PARIS
• Publisher: IACOBUM DUPUYS
• Data: 1582
• Format: in-folio (mm 340x215)
• Comparison bibliographic: Cfr. Adam, 313 - Cushing, 88 - Durling, 3531 - Waller 7175 - Wellcome, I. 4824

Product's description

Contemporary full vellum. (12), 884, (22), with woodcut title-vignette, three fullpage
woodcut portraits of Paré, Hippocrates and Galen. 22 half-page woodcut
scenes and c. 300 woodcut scenes and figures in the text.
FIRST LATIN EDITION of Paré’s works (first, French, 1575), the third edition
overall.The Opera, containing a fine engraved portrait of the author aged 68,
contains not only all Parè’s surgical works, but also his many other writings to
that date. Some light browning and spotting, otherwise a good copy. Paré
‘invented many surgical and dental instruments and was especially adept at
devising ingenious artificial limbs’ (Heirs of Hippocrates).
Adams, P313; Cushing, 88; Durling, 3531; Wellcome, I 4824; Heirs of
Hippocrates, 271.