1770 CHIRURGY MEDICAL TREATISE ANATOMY antique ILLUSTRATED BOOK by L. HEISTER

Heister, Lorenz (1683-1758).
Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wundarzney gehoret, nach der neuesten und besten Art, grundlich abgehandelt, und in acht und dreyssig Kupfertafeln die neuerfundene und dienlichste Instrumente, nebst den bequemsten Handgriffen der chirurgischen Operationen und Bandagen deutlich vorgestellet werden
("Surgery, in which everything that belongs to the surgical procedure is thoroughly dealt with in the latest and best way, and the newly invented and most useful instruments, along with the most comfortable handles for surgical operations and bandages, are clearly presented in thirty eight copper plates").
Nuremberg : Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1770
Original leather binding, spine with raised bands and title label, decorated in gilt.
Marbled endpapers.
Size 7 by 8.5"
16 pp (table of content), 1078pp (text), 24 pp (register)
Illustrated with fold-out copper plates
The copper plates in this edition, presumably made by Heister himself, show surgical instruments and operations.
"The book owes its great success in part to the fact that it was the first textbook on surgery written in German and that Heister, who carefully used the best domestic and foreign sources and added his own experiences, gave surgery its (in Germany at least) understood how to provide the missing basis of anatomy".
Some wear of leather, front hinge is broken, spine with some damage to lower part, good interior
Text in German

Lorenz Heister (1683-1758) was a professor of anatomy, botany and surgery in Universities of Altdorf and Helmstadt and is considered the founder of scientific surgery in German-speaking countries.
"Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wundarzney gehoret..." is the main work of Prof. Heister and enjoyed great popularity in the 18th century and went through numerous editions.

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