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The collected works of one of the greatest surgeons of the sixteenth century

PARÉ, Ambrosius.
De chirurgie, ende alle de opera, ofte wercken. (...) Noch is op het nieuws hier by ghevoeght de beschrijvinghe der deelen des menschelijcken lichaems, in 't Latijn beschreven door D. Joh. Fernelium: ende in 't Nederduyts overgeset door D. Sebastiaen Egbertsz.

With large woodcut vignette on title printed in red and black, over 300 woodcuts in text, depicting surgical techniques and illustrations, and several woodcut initials. The illustrations originate from the 1582 first edition.

With large woodcut vignette on title printed in red and black, over 300 woodcuts in text, depicting surgical techniques and illustrations, and several woodcut initials. The illustrations originate from the 1582 first edition.

With large woodcut vignette on title printed in red and black, over 300 woodcuts in text, depicting surgical techniques and illustrations, and several woodcut initials. The illustrations originate from the 1582 first edition.

With large woodcut vignette on title printed in red and black, over 300 woodcuts in text, depicting surgical techniques and illustrations, and several woodcut initials. The illustrations originate from the 1582 first edition.

With large woodcut vignette on title printed in red and black, over 300 woodcuts in text, depicting surgical techniques and illustrations, and several woodcut initials. The illustrations originate from the 1582 first edition.



Amsterdam, Gerrit Willemsz, 1649. Folio. Contemporary vellum over wooden boards, spine divided in 7 compartments, title in ink and 2 library labels on spine, blind-stamped double fillets on sides, blind-stamped ornament in centre within a rectangle frame formed by a single blind-stamped fillet, one clasp. With large woodcut vignette on title printed in red and black, over 300 woodcuts in text, depicting surgical techniques and illustrations, and several woodcut initials. The illustrations originate from the 1582 first edition. (16), 940, (12); 42, (2) pp.

Dutch edition of the collected works of the famous French surgeon Ambrosius Paré (1517-1590), great renovator of surgery in France, who also profoundly influenced the practice of surgery throughout Europe. Paré is especially remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery, and for his revival of podalic version. He invented many new surgical instruments, and instruments for dentistry. Paré was raised in a poor family, he started his medical carreer as an assistant barber. He worked his way up and became an outstanding surgeon, and the greatest military surgeon before Larrey could be named such over 200 years later. His writings are still popular for the vivid case histories, which Paré mainly drew from his own practical experience. For example, in the present work, many examples and illustrations are given on procreation and monsters, a part which actually deals with obstetrics. Paré had problems with the Paris physicians during the 70's of the 16th century. Since he had not asked permission for publication of his medical writings at the medical faculty of the Paris university, and because he used to write in the common tongue - he did not speak or write any Latin - he provoked the anger of the physicians, who feared rivalry from surgeons. They tried to destroy Paré with the help of the law, but it turned out that the king had given the great surgeon a 10-year privilege in 1572, granting Paré the right "to employ such printers as seems good to him".
The first Dutch edition of the collected works was printed in Dordrecht, 1592. Based on the fourth French edition, the last authorative one from the author's hand, it is of better quality than either the German or the English translations, since the last two were based on the inferior Latin, 1582 edition. The translator of the Dutch edition, Carel Baten, was born in Ghent, but had to flee to Holland in the protestant exodus. He earned his living as a physician in Dordrecht between 1588-1601. He was the author of several original works, and he translated several popular works by famous authors, such as Ambrosius Paré. Baten says in his introduction that a translation of Paré was highly needed, since the French copies were so popular that they could no longer be bought for love or money. The present edition of Paré's collected works is made up of the sheets from the 1636 Amsterdam edition, with a new title-page, on which Hendrick Laurentsz' device has been retained. The title of the included work by Fernel is here printed on the main title-page, instead of on pasted slips, as in the 1636 edition.

Good copy.- (Binding rubbed; few lvs. are sl. dam., without loss of text or illustrations).
Doe, Bibl. of Paré, 66; Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 288; cf. Wellcome Library I, 4819-25 (French, Latin & English eds.); Garrison & Morton 5565 (French 1575 ed.); Krivatsy 8599-602 (Dutch eds.); Heirs of Hippocrates 163 (French 1579 ed.).

Related Subjects: Medicine  Obstetrics  Rangaku  Surgery 

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