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GESNER, CONRAD. 1516-1565. Chirurgia. De chirurgia scriptores optimi quique veteres et recentiores.... Zurich: Andreas Gessner and Hans Jakob Gessner, 1555.
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GESNER, CONRAD. 1516-1565.
Chirurgia. De chirurgia scriptores optimi quique veteres et recentiores.... Zurich: Andreas Gessner and Hans Jakob Gessner, 1555.
Folio (315 x 200 mm). †6 *4 a-z6 2A-2Y6 α6 ß6 γ8. Woodcut printer's device on title and 2Y6v and approximately 250 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary roll-tooled paneled pigskin, manuscript spine title. Ownership signature effaced from title, small hole to †6 with loss of two words on verso, light browning to a small number of leaves, old pale dampstain to upper corner of last half of index, but a clean, fine copy.
FIRST EDITION. Gesner edited, compiled, and contributed a work of his own to this extensive collection of surgical works by Biondo, Bolognini, Dondi, Ferri, Galen, Houllier, Langius, Maggi, Santo, Oribasius, and Tagault, among others. "The list of surgical writers and their works which Gesner appended to this book is one of the earliest bibliographies of surgery" (Garrison-Morton 5562). Adams G520; Durling 960; Heirs of Hippocrates 309; Osler 643; Wellcome 1460.
Folio (315 x 200 mm). †6 *4 a-z6 2A-2Y6 α6 ß6 γ8. Woodcut printer's device on title and 2Y6v and approximately 250 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary roll-tooled paneled pigskin, manuscript spine title. Ownership signature effaced from title, small hole to †6 with loss of two words on verso, light browning to a small number of leaves, old pale dampstain to upper corner of last half of index, but a clean, fine copy.
FIRST EDITION. Gesner edited, compiled, and contributed a work of his own to this extensive collection of surgical works by Biondo, Bolognini, Dondi, Ferri, Galen, Houllier, Langius, Maggi, Santo, Oribasius, and Tagault, among others. "The list of surgical writers and their works which Gesner appended to this book is one of the earliest bibliographies of surgery" (Garrison-Morton 5562). Adams G520; Durling 960; Heirs of Hippocrates 309; Osler 643; Wellcome 1460.