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Enlarged Dutch edition of the most complete, richly illustrated surgical handbook of the seventeenth century

SCULTETUS (SCHULTES), Johannes.
Het vermeerderde wapenhuis der heel-meesters. Waar in alle de kunstbewerkingen en afbeeldingen der werktuigen tot de heelkunst nodig, gevonden worden. Als meede deszelfs aanmerkingen. En hondert heel-kundige waarnemingen, verzamelt van Dr. Joh. Baptista van Lamzweerde. Waar by gevoegt zyn twee aanhangzels over dezelve stof van voornaame Nederlandsche genees- en heel-kundigen. En eenige aanmerkingen van wylen den ervaaren heelmeester, Pieter Adriaanze Verduin. Beneffens een kort begrip of te inleiding tot de chirurgie. Alles na de laatste Latynsche druk in 't Neerduitsch vertaalt, in beter order gebragt, en met eenige byvoegingen en aanmerkingen opgeheldert en vermeerdert, door Gerardus Dicten.

Vol. 1 with engraved frontispiece depicting surgeons treating a patient and 54 folding engraved plates with surgeon's tools and illustrations of treatments of various illnesses; vol. 2 with 32 similar folding engraved plates.

Amsterdam, Hendrik Janssonius van Waesberge, 1748 (and 1747). 2 vols. 8vo. Fine modern crushed green morocco in antique style, spines ribbed and gilt. Vol. 1 with engraved frontispiece depicting surgeons treating a patient and 54 folding engraved plates with surgeon's tools and illustrations of treatments of various illnesses; vol. 2 with 32 similar folding engraved plates. (42), 548; (4), 551-1094, (84 index) pp.

Enlarged, richly illustrated first edition of the translation into Dutch by Gerard Dicten of the most famous, comprehensive and complete surgical work on (operative) procedures such as amputations, reduction of dislocations, forceps delivery of dead fetuses, neurosurgery, bandaging and spliting, etc., containing a complete catalogue of all known surgical instruments of the period.
Johannes Schultes (1595-1645), born in Ulm on the Danube and a pupil of Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente and Adriaan van de Spiegel at Padua, ranked at the end of his life together with Fabry von Hilden as the leading German surgeon of his era. He was the inventor of many devices and bandages such as the many-tailed bandage (known as Scultetus's bandage).
The first edition (the only folio edition) of Schultes' work was published posthumously in Ulm, 1655, under the title Cheiroploteke seu armamentarium chirurgicum, by his nephew Johannes Scultetus the Younger. The success of the work was immense because it proved extremely useful to practising surgeons. Through its numerous revised and expanded editions and translations the work became the most widely published illustrated treatise on surgery of the 17th century.
The present, rare edition is the first edition of the translation into Dutch by the Leyden surgeon Gerard Dicten (1696-1770). The first volume comprises apart from the 54 fine plates with extensive explanations, 100 "heel-kundige waarnemingen" (surgical observations) by Schultes himself, collected by Johannes Baptist Lamsweerde (fl. 1659-1692). The second, supplementary volume has a second title-page bound in after the general title: Aanhangzel, van verscheide en veel nieuw uitgevondene werk-tuigen, tot de hand-werken der chirurgie noodig. Daar benevens een hondert-tal van aanmerkingen, van de vermaartste practizyns van deze Nederlanden te zamen gevoegt. Mitsgaders een kort begrip van de gantsche chirurgie (Amst., Janssoons van Waesberge, 1747). This volume is subdivided in 2 "aanhangsels" (supplements) of which the first contains 29 plates with explanatory text and 105 observations by various Dutch surgeons. The second supplement (from page 985 onwards) contains 3 plates and 22 observations by Pieter Adriaensz. Verduin (1636-1696), first published in Latin by Johannes Tiling in 1693.
An earlier Dutch translation was published in 1657 with the title Magazyn ofte wapenhuys (second edition: Het nieuwe wapen-huys der chirurgie, 1671)

Good uncut copy.- (Both vols. occ. sl. foxed or browned, margins frayed; vol. 2: title-page backed; occ. small wormholes).

BMN I, p. 302; Hirsch V, p.298f; Blake p. 412. Cf. Garrisson & Morton 5571, Heirs of Hippocrates 293; Krivatsy 10476; Norman Library 1912 (all listing the only Latin folio edition, 1655).

Related Subjects: 18th Century Illustrated Books Medicine Obstetrics Surgery

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