VIDIUS (Vidius).

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VIDIUS (Vidius).
Ancient and renowned experts in medicine and surgery. Lyon, Guillaume Rouille, 1555. Large volume in-8, overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine, traces of laces, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Baudrier, t. IX, pp. 223-224. - Heirs of Hippocrates, no. 263.5. - Cushing, A176. Rare first edition in French of this important compilation of texts on the surgery of Hippocrates, Galen and Oribasus. The translation was prepared by François Lefèvre, a physician born in Bourges, from the Latin version of Guido Guidi (known as Vidius) (1500-1569) published in Paris in 1544. Remarkable woodcut illustration with numerous figures in the text representing surgical instruments, operations, bandages, and curious machines used to reduce fractures. These woodcuts are copied from those of the 1544 folio edition, whose drawings, formerly attributed to Primatice, have since been restored to the Florentine mannerist painter Francesco Salviati. An old manuscript ex-libris with the title: to the community of St. Martha. Modern ex-libris by Dr. P.-A. Créhange. A few leaves and worm gallery, a few leaves, very slightly shorter in margin, seem to come from another copy. Restoration on a covering part of the vellum.
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