Traité des Hernies

by Pierre Franco

$12,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

Lyon: Thibauld Payan, 1561. Second edition of Franco's most famous work, greatly expanding the 1st 1556 with 25 new woodcuts 22 instruments and 3 skeletons . 8vo 175 x 119mm , pp. 34 , 554, 2 . Contemporary ink ownership inscription to the title page, title with old paper restoration 30mmx40mm to blank right margin, paper reinforcements to lower margin of G2 ‘F2’ , T6, Bb8, Ii2 , worming to the final 26 leaves not effecting text, errata

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