Traité des Hernies
by Franco, Pierre
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Century City, California, United States
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About This Item
Lyon: Thibauld Payan, 1561. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2nd edition of Franco's most famous work, greatly expanding the 1st (1556) with 25 new woodcuts (22 instruments and 3 skeletons) and . Octavo, (32), 554, (2) pp. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to the title page, title with old paper restoration (30mmx40mm) to blank right margin, paper reinforcements to lower margin of G2 [‘F2'], T6, Bb8, Ii2), worming to the final 26 leaves not effecting text, errata with a 28mmx44mm piece of the lower blank margin removed and the whole page laid down, some very minor, sporadic foxing and browning, else internally clean very good. Bound in contemporary vellum remnants of from an old manuscript, chipped at the lower rear corner, lacking the ties, toned, else very good. Only 3 other copies at auction in at least 85 years. Norman 828. Franco was one of the greatest surgeons of the Renaissance, "[...] influential in bringing operative surgery back into the realm of regular surgical practice, recapturing it from the ignorant hands of charlatans and itinerant ‘cutters'".
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- Bookseller
- Biblioctopus (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 954
- Title
- Traité des Hernies
- Author
- Franco, Pierre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Thibauld Payan
- Place of Publication
- Lyon
- Date Published
- 1561
- Keywords
- 12/23misc
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