La Méthode Curative des Playes & Fractures de la Teste humaine. Avec les pourtraicts des Instruments necessaires pour la curation d'icelles

by Ambroise ParÉ

$225,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Jean Le Royer, achevé d’imprimer 28 February 1561 old style; i.e. February 1562 new style . / First edition, extremely rare, a fine copy in entirely original condition “most copies were washed and rebound to suit the taste of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century bibliophiles” — Norman , of the earliest comprehensive manual of cranial surgery in a vernacular language. Written in response to the death of Henri II,

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