Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa, Vido Vidio Florentino interprete, cum nonnullis eiusdem Vidii com m entariis..

by Guido Guidi, known as Vidus Vidius, Nicetas

$60,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 30 April 1544. / First edition, a splendid copy with notable provenance and marginalia, of one of the most beautiful scientific books of the Renaissance, which well deserves the praise lavished on it by Herrlinger, who calls it “a typographically exquisite specimen of Parisian printing craft” and “the most beautiful textbook of surgery to be printed in the

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