1555 SURGERY ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL WORK antique FOILO vellum 16 Cent. GESSNER ED.

SURGERY
De Chirvrgia Scriptores Optimi Qviqve Veteres Et Recentiores, Pleriqve In Germania Antehac Non Editi
Book 3
DE SCLOPETORUM SIVE ARCHIBUSORUM VULNERIBUS
libri tres
Tiguri per Andream Gessnerum F. & Iacobum Gessnerum ; 1555
[ Zurich: Andreas Gessner and Hans Jakob Gessner, 1555] (at colofon).
Folio : 8 1/4 by 12 1/4"
First edition
Volume 3 only (continuous pagination, pages 287 - 411 plus extensive Index)
Illustrated
Vellum bound, manuscript spine title
Worn binding with damage to the upper left corner of the back cover, very good interior condition
Text in Latin

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).

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