GESSNER, CHIRURGIA, DE CHIRURGIA SCRIPTORES OPTIMI, ZURICH, 1555, SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CALF

folio (315 x 202mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page and Yy6 (otherwise blank), with blank leaf *4, woodcut initials and illustrations, seventeenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, occasional light damp-staining, ink stain on k4-5, binding slightly worn and discoloured

"Pirou" [?], early inscription on title-page; J. Dudfield Rose (1907-1992), FRCS

Eimas 309; Garrison-Morton 5562; VD16 G1707; Wellcome 1460

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A compilation of writings on surgery from Hippocrates to Jean Tagault (died 1545), with comments from Gesner on their importance. "The list of surgical writers and their works which Gesner appended to this book is one of the earliest bibliographies of surgery" (Garrison-Morton).