Lot 272
Plastic Surgery.- Read (Alexander) Chirurgorum Comes: or the Whole Practice of Chirurgery, first edition, Printed by Edw. Jones, for Christopher Wilkinson, 1687.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Plastic Surgery.- Read (Alexander) Chirurgorum Comes: or the Whole Practice of Chirurgery, first edition, engraved frontispiece of surgical instruments laid down and a little stained, some water-staining, mostly marginal, worming to lower margin of last quarter of the book, sometimes encroaching on text with loss, some top edges trimmed close with loss to pagination or headline, contemporary calf, rubbed, [Wing R427; Wellcome IV, p. 483; Krivatsy 9426], 8vo, Printed by Edw. Jones, for Christopher Wilkinson, 1687.
⁂ Seldom found complete with the plate. Includes a summary of Tagliacozzi's pioneering work on plastic surgery, first published in 1597, and here described on p.645 and onwards.
Provenance: "Empt: e Joh. ?Dal: Calend: ybris - 1687. Pret: 6 sh:" ink inscription on front pastedown; John Hearle (ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, one dated 1720); Jewell Roger and Rog. Birdwood (ink inscriptions at head of title).
Description
Plastic Surgery.- Read (Alexander) Chirurgorum Comes: or the Whole Practice of Chirurgery, first edition, engraved frontispiece of surgical instruments laid down and a little stained, some water-staining, mostly marginal, worming to lower margin of last quarter of the book, sometimes encroaching on text with loss, some top edges trimmed close with loss to pagination or headline, contemporary calf, rubbed, [Wing R427; Wellcome IV, p. 483; Krivatsy 9426], 8vo, Printed by Edw. Jones, for Christopher Wilkinson, 1687.
⁂ Seldom found complete with the plate. Includes a summary of Tagliacozzi's pioneering work on plastic surgery, first published in 1597, and here described on p.645 and onwards.
Provenance: "Empt: e Joh. ?Dal: Calend: ybris - 1687. Pret: 6 sh:" ink inscription on front pastedown; John Hearle (ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, one dated 1720); Jewell Roger and Rog. Birdwood (ink inscriptions at head of title).
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