Feldtbuch der Wundtartzney.
Baiersbronn: Medicina Rara.
Full page plates, some folding. xcv pp. Small folio, 1/2 brown calf over marbled boards, in board slipcase. (Baiersbronn, West Germany): for the members of the Editions Medicina Rara, (no date, circa 1970). A fine copy.
Number 125 of 2500 numbered copies, printed by Druckerei Holzer, on rag paper made especially for this edition. Facsimile of the original 1517 Strasbourg edition. "Gersdorff performed nearly 200 amputations. He opposed Pare's abandonment of boiling oil for the cauterization of wounds. The book contains some instructive pictures of early surgical procedures and includes the first printed picture of an amputation." - - G.M. 5560.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Edition: Reprint
Language: German
Price: $49.50
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