FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, HIERONYMUS. C.1533-1619. Opera Chirurgica, quorum Pars Prior Pentateu...

FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, HIERONYMUS. C.1533-1619. Opera Chirurgica, quorum Pars Prior Pentateuchum Chirurgicum, posterior Operationes Chirurgicas. Padua: Francesco Bolzetta, 1647. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio (310 x 217 mm). Title page in red and black, woodcut printer's device on title, 2 engraved portraits, 9 engraved plates, engraved and woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary blind-ruled vellum, ink titles on spine. Stains and soiling to covers, armorial bookplate on verso of title, dampstaining to outside edges through early leaves (to approximately leaf I5), ink stain to upper margin through leaf Q3. Provenance Dr. Erhard Horn (Horz?), Stuttgart (ink inscription on title page). Later edition of this popular surgical textbook, first printed in 1617, by 'one of the great Paduan anatomists and teachers, pupil of Fallopius, teacher of Harvey, and friend of Galileo' (Heirs). Two plates depict elaborate orthopedic devices assembled to show how they could be applied to all parts of the body; there are seven detailed plates of surgical and medical instruments Heirs of Hippocrates 366 (1641 edition); Krivatsy 3809 (imperfect); Waller 2890; Wellcome III, 4. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Without reserve For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing