122. Paré (Ambroise) The Workes…, translated by Thomas Johnson, first English edition, fine engraved title with portrait and scenes of trepanning, a herbalist at work, distillation apparatus, surgical instruments, monsters etc., numerous woodcuts in text of similar subjects, engraved title soiled and frayed at edge with very slight loss to border (repaired), dedication and To the Reader leaf defective at upper outer corner and fore-edge with loss of a few letters (repaired), Ff 3-5 and final two leaves also repaired, light water-staining at beginning and end, slight worming to lower margin, modern calf ruled in blind, [STC 19189], folio, Th.Cotes and R.Young, 1634.
est. £2000 – £3000
“Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey…He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery, for his revival of podalic version, his re-introduction of the ligature and his invention of many new surgical instruments. He was the first to suggest that syphilis is a cause of aneurysm. He popularized the truss, introduced artificial limbs, and (in dentistry) re-implantation of the teeth.” GM