PARÉ (Ambroise)

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PARÉ (Ambroise)
The Works. Fourth Edition. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1585. In-folio, marbled calf, decorated spine, red title coin, jagged edges (17th century binding). Doe, n°31. The best collective edition of the works of this great Renaissance surgeon, illustrated with a beautiful portrait of the author and a very large number of woodcut figures in the text. Title set in a beautiful architectural woodcut frame. Copy missing the portrait and 2 table leaves, which are here in facsimile. About ten leaves come from another copy. It is however complete with the 2 interleaved leaves for the Methodic division and enumeration of the diseases that occur to the eyes. Title and first dedication leaf re-embossed, with pen retouching on the engraved frame. Small consolidated tear at the top of the Aa6v°? sheet; the second sheet of the table of eye diseases is trimmed short with damage to the text. Brown spot on folios II5-6 and KK1. From scorched notebooks, wide wetness in the BBB notebook. Caps, one cut and one corner damaged with small lacks.
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