Lot n° 631
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300 - 400
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FIERABRAS (Hervé). Methode briefve et facile pour aisement p - Lot 631
FIERABRAS (Hervé). Methode briefve et facile pour aisement parvenir à la vraie intelligence de la Chirurgie [...] Paris, Antoine Bourriquant, sd [c. 1550].
In-12 cream vellum, traces of handwritten title on spine (contemporary binding). Small woodcut to title showing two barber-surgeons in action. Woodcut at the head of the notice to the reader showing a surgeon bleeding a woman. Full-page engraved anatomical figure of a man with astrological symbols, p. 18. 2 full-page engraved tables of elements. One small engraved figure in the text.
Very rare edition, said to have appeared in the same year as the original dated 1550, also by Bourriquant. This is one of the rare Renaissance medical textbooks written in French (for the use of "beginning" surgeons) by the Rouen physician Hervé Fierabras, whose text inspired Ambroise Paré.
Marginal wormholes.
Armorial bookplate of Hyacinthe Théodore Baron (Dean of the Paris Faculty of Medicine). Bookplate Car. de Beaurepaire. Bookplate J.M.
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