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Lot 329

WOODALL (JOHN)
The Surgeons Mate or Military & Domestique Surgery, Nicholas Bourne, 1639

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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WOODALL (JOHN)

The Surgeons Mate or Military & Domestique Surgery, engraved frontispiece equestrian portrait of Charles I signed "M.W.", engraved pictorial title incorporating 9 portraits, 4 engraved plates of surgical instruments (one folding), folding letterpress table, contemporary calf, upper joint weakened [STC 25963; Durling 13141; Wellcome 14302668; cf. Garrison and Morton 2144], folio (305 x 193mm.), Nicholas Bourne, 1639

Footnotes

The Surgeon's Mate was first published in 1617, and this 1639 edition is the first collected edition of Woodall's works, including additional treatises on the plague and gangrene. It "was made required reading for all naval surgeons in the East India Company" (Garrison & Morton).

Provenance: Ferdinando Marsham, early ownership inscription with price '9.s.'. It seems likely that this Marsham was the one recorded as Esquire to the Body to both Charles I and Charles II.


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Part Two of the Library of the late Hugh Selbourne, M.D., will be offered in Oxford in autumn 2015

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