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PARÉ, Ambroise

De chirurgie, ende opera van alle de wercken [...]. Uyt de Françoyse in de Nederlandtsche sprake, uyt de vierde editie ghetrouwelijck overgheset door D. Carolus Battum [...]. Verdeylt in 28 boecken

Rotterdam
Wed. Matthijs Bastiaensz
1636

€600 - €900

Folio, [16], 940, [12] pp, Dutch gothic script in two columns, illustrated with more than 300 woodcuts figuring skeletons, body parts and organs, animals, monsters, distillation systems, instruments, etc., some quires loosening & frayed; some (damp)staining and spotting, some soiling, local minor worming in blank inner margin. Contemporary blindstamped calf binding on wooden panels (rebacked and used)

Ex-libris Joannes Haentjens, Lokeren, 1779; Dr M. Carchon e.a. Ref. Krivatsy 8600 ; Doe pp.193-4. Dutch edition (1st Dordrecht 1592) of the complete works of the French royal surgeon A. Paré (1517-1590). Translated by Carel Baten (Ghent ca. 1540-ca. 1617 Amsterdam), physician to the city of Dordrecht (1588-1601). According to Doe, the Dutch editions were far superior to the ""very inferior"" Latin edition. The Dutch editions used the same woodblocks as the French editions. Paré, one of the most notable surgeons of the European Renaissance, is considered one of the fathers of modern surgery and forensic pathology, and was a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine

Medicine