Crooke, Helkiah

Estimate

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Description

Microcosmographia [Greek]. A Description of the Body of Man ... The second Edition corrected and enlarged; Pare (Ambroise) An Explanation of the Fashion and Use of three and fifty Instruments of Chirurgery . . . done into English ... by H. C[rooke]. London: for Michael Spark, 1631
paper, ink, leather

Folio (320 x 210 mm). Engraved frontis, numerous woodcuts in text; frontis trimmed, repaired and likely supplied, title restored, repairs to lower corner of a few leaves, lacks errata, last leaf frayed. Modern half morocco.

Literature

STC 6063; Krivatsy 292; Russell 223; Waller 2218; Wellcome I, 1686

Catalogue Note

One of the earliest full-scale illustrated works on anatomy and physiology published in English. This edition includes the first English appearance of An Explanation of the Fashion and Use of three and fifty Instruments of Chirurgery, not fully published in English until 1634.