Seu Armamentarium Chirurgicum Xliii Tabulis Aeri Elegantissime Incisis Nec Ante Hac Visis

by Johannes Scultetes

$55,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Ulm: Typis & impensis Balthasari Kühnen, Reipubl. Ulmenf., Typographi & Bibliopolæ, 1655. First edition, and a fine unsophisticated copy, of the most popular and influential surgical text of the seventeenth century: a comprehensive illustrated “armamentarium” of operative surgery, issued with 43 large folio copper-engraved plates by the Ulm artist Jonas Arnold that form one of the most

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