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TAGLIOCOZZI (GASPARE)
De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni the younger, 1597

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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TAGLIOCOZZI (GASPARE)

De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the license to print dated 9 October 1596 on the verso of the title, and with the registration date of 29 April 1597, additional engraved architectural title incorporating the arms of the dedicatee Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, printed title in red and black with woodcut device, 22 full-page woodcut illustrations, 2 smaller woodcut illustrations on 2E5r, all showing surgical methods and instruments for cosmetic surgery, additional title with imprint shaved, 4 text leaves browned, small oil stain to 3 others, later vellum, soiled with slight loss of spine [Adams T59; Durling 4310; Garrison & Morton 5734; Norman 2048], folio (322 x 212mm.), Venice, Gasparo Bindoni the younger, 1597

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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY. "We restore, repair, and make whole those parts... which fortune has taken away, not so much that they may delight the eye, but that they may buoy up the spirit and help the mind of the afflicted" (Tagliacozzi in the English edition of the present work, entitled On the Surgery of Mutilation by Grafting, 1597).

Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1545-1599) was professor of surgery and later of anatomy at Bologna University, and also worked in the 'Hospital of Death', run by the 'Brotherhood of Death'. It was his job was to visit prisons and comfort those condemned to death, and he was also able to procure the bodies of executed prisoners for use in dissections.This led him to develop the so-called "Italian method" of nasal reconstruction.

Provenance; "H.H.M.B.C." ink initials on both titles.

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