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.
Amsterdam, Gerrit Willemsz, 1649. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a large woodcut vignette on the title page, more than 300 woodcut illustrations in the text, and several woodcut initials, the title is printed in red and black. The illustrations originate from the 1582 first edition. Including: FERNELLI, Johannes. Beschryvinghe der deelen des menschelijcken lichaems. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards. [16], 940, [12]; 42, [2] pp.
€ 9,500
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 career 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 1570's. 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".
With the label of the Oudheidkamer Twente on the spine, and the stamp of this library on the recto of the first free flyleaf, an ownership entry on the very of the same leaf. The vellum is somewhat browned and rubbed, with a stain in the lower left corner of the front board, lacking one of the clasps. Some of the leaves are lightly (water) stained, without affecting the text or illustrations. Otherwise in good condition. Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 288; Doe, Bibl. of Paré, 66; STCN 088354946 (1 copy); cf. Wellcome Library I, 4819-25 (French, Latin & English eds.); Garrison & Morton 5565 (French 1575 ed.); Heirs of Hippocrates 163 (French 1579 ed.); Krivatsy 8599-602 (Dutch eds.).
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