SCULTET (Jean).

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SCULTET (Jean).
Armamentarium chirurgicum. The Hague, Adrian Vlacq, 1657. In-8, stiff overlapping vellum, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). An important 17th century treatise on surgery, originally published in 1655 in Ulm (cf. Garrison-Morton, no. 5571). Pretty frontispiece engraved on copper by Jacob van Meurs and 44 large figures in the text (43 numbered from I to XXXXIII, plus another unnumbered one) showing various instruments and surgical operations (ligatures, dressings, how to repair fractures, tooth extractions, etc.). The author, a doctor in Nuremberg, his native city, was a member of the Académie des Curieux de la Nature. Manuscript ex-libris by Étienne Gourlé de La Motte (18th century) and large ex-libris from the library of the medical inspector general Dujardin Beaumetz (19th century). Some light freckles. Handwritten mention cut out at the head of the frontispiece. Small tear on the back. Angular tear to a board, without damage to the subject. Attached, from the same: Trichiasis admiranda sive morbus pilaris mirabilis. Nuremberg, Michael Ender, 1658. In-12, hard vellum (modern binding). Krivatsy, n°10605. Original edition of this opuscule on trichiasis, an ophthalmological condition affecting the eyelids. Incomplete of the folding plate containing 2 figures. Fold mark in the middle of some of the notebooks, with small marginal repair removing a few letters on sheets A6, A9 and A10. Freckles.
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