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VIGO, GIOVANNI DA. 1450-1525. The Most Excelent Worckes of Chirurgery ... traunslated into Englishe. Whereunto is added an exposition of straunge termes and unknowen symples, belongyng unto the arte. [London]: Edwarde Whytchurch, 1550.
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VIGO, GIOVANNI DA. 1450-1525.
The Most Excelent Worckes of Chirurgery ... traunslated into Englishe. Whereunto is added an exposition of straunge termes and unknowen symples, belongyng unto the arte. [London]: Edwarde Whytchurch, 1550.
Small folio (280 x 185 mm). [par.]6 A-2Z6 [et]6 3A4 (3A4 blank). Black letter, text in double columns. Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorative initials throughout. Contemporary paneled calf over new boards and rebacked. Title repaired with a few losses with lower right of woodcut border restored in facsimile, repair to upper corner of 2A3 partially affecting 6 lines of text on recto and verso, a few additional small repairs, a few marginal tears, some scattered staining.
Provenance: Near contemporary annotations to title (recto and verso), last blank, and to a few margins.
SECOND ENGLISH EDITION of the "the first complete system of surgery after that of Guy de Chauliac. It contains an account of gunshot wounds and a section on syphilis" (Garrison-Morton). It was one of the most popular works on the subject, going through some fifty editions. The English translation by Bartholomew Traheron first appeared in 1543. Durling 4616; STC 24721 (2nd ed); Wellcome I 6621 (Ff. 19-240 only). Cf. Garrison-Morton 5559.1.
Small folio (280 x 185 mm). [par.]6 A-2Z6 [et]6 3A4 (3A4 blank). Black letter, text in double columns. Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorative initials throughout. Contemporary paneled calf over new boards and rebacked. Title repaired with a few losses with lower right of woodcut border restored in facsimile, repair to upper corner of 2A3 partially affecting 6 lines of text on recto and verso, a few additional small repairs, a few marginal tears, some scattered staining.
Provenance: Near contemporary annotations to title (recto and verso), last blank, and to a few margins.
SECOND ENGLISH EDITION of the "the first complete system of surgery after that of Guy de Chauliac. It contains an account of gunshot wounds and a section on syphilis" (Garrison-Morton). It was one of the most popular works on the subject, going through some fifty editions. The English translation by Bartholomew Traheron first appeared in 1543. Durling 4616; STC 24721 (2nd ed); Wellcome I 6621 (Ff. 19-240 only). Cf. Garrison-Morton 5559.1.





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