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Charles W. Traylen 389
Sept. ' 93
3L = $4.50

Ambroise Pare .(1510 - 90)
The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey
translated out of Latin and compared with the French.
By Th. Johnson [Bk. 29 tr. G. Baker] folio.
London : T. Cotes and R.Young , 1634. (328x200mm)
Ref : S.T.C. 19189, Doe 51, Waller 7177, Wellcome 4825.
Cop : HEHL, Stanford (Barch R128.6 P3613). Bodleian.
Lib.10. pp.341 & 2. Gg3.
Total 29 books. Book 10 of the greene and bloody\wounds
of each part. Total, Chap XL (Of the wounds of the Ligaments)
begins p 337 - 404.
1173 pages (Gggg)
Chap . III of the signs of a broken skull , which are manifest
to our sense.
Chap . V of a contusion, which is the second sort of fracture

The works of Pare were written in French & later transl. into
(1582) Latin. The Latin ed. is poor & it is unfortunate that the only
English transl. which was made by Thomas Johnson (d.1644)
depends upon this.
Harper
Cat. 1967
$850
7 leaves incl. engr. title by Thomas Cecil. pp 1 - 487, 553 -
1083 , 1093 - 1173 , 11 leaves index ( complete) - 323 woodcut
illus . in the text. - 1st English ed. of this milestone of medical
science - the most outstanding book of the 17th C in Brit. Surgery.
Pare is justly hailed as The outstanding military surgeon of the 16th C
He knew no Latin & his works were 1st published in French ; the 1st
collected ed of his works was published in Paris in 1579. His
pupil Guillemeau edited the 1st Latin ed. published in Paris in 1582.
{[14], 1173p., [18 Index] many woodcuts . No sheets numbered
{489 - 522 and 1085 - 1092 were issued.
Roman type - 57 lines per page.
T. & R. Cotes - Jaggard's successors.
Pare was the first to suggest that syphilis is a cause of aneurism.