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GUY DE CHAULIAC (c.1300-1368). Die cyrurgie warachtich ende nootsakelijc allen den ghenen die wercken willen in die conste van cyrurgien. Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 1507.
First edition in Dutch, and first complete printed translation of Chauliac’s great work, which became the most influential surgical text for over 200 years and was extensively used, leaving but a few surviving copies. Unrecorded at auction on ABPC/RBH and only 8 copies in libraries. Durling (NLM) 2239; Lindeboom 1975, 2298; USTC 400275; neither in Cushing nor in Wellcome.
Folio (289 x 212mm). Large title woodcut, 22 smaller woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials (title and final leaf somewhat soiled, mounted, with mount partly re-detached revealing manuscript text, first few leaves frayed, some staining and finger-soiling). Near contemporary vellum wallet-style wrapper with fore-edge flap, external stitching on spine, flyleaves from a 15th-century manuscript on vellum charter (binding somewhat soiled and stiffened). Provenance: ?Hans van Ditzenvoidt (16th-century marginalia and notes on reinforcing leaves) – ?Dutch-German border region (mention of the bishop of Münster, King Frederick III, the city of Vienna, the Council of Basel and the year 1444 on charter flyleaves) – Anholt, Princes of Salm-Salm (bookplate and stamp).
First edition in Dutch, and first complete printed translation of Chauliac’s great work, which became the most influential surgical text for over 200 years and was extensively used, leaving but a few surviving copies. Unrecorded at auction on ABPC/RBH and only 8 copies in libraries. Durling (NLM) 2239; Lindeboom 1975, 2298; USTC 400275; neither in Cushing nor in Wellcome.
Folio (289 x 212mm). Large title woodcut, 22 smaller woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials (title and final leaf somewhat soiled, mounted, with mount partly re-detached revealing manuscript text, first few leaves frayed, some staining and finger-soiling). Near contemporary vellum wallet-style wrapper with fore-edge flap, external stitching on spine, flyleaves from a 15th-century manuscript on vellum charter (binding somewhat soiled and stiffened). Provenance: ?Hans van Ditzenvoidt (16th-century marginalia and notes on reinforcing leaves) – ?Dutch-German border region (mention of the bishop of Münster, King Frederick III, the city of Vienna, the Council of Basel and the year 1444 on charter flyleaves) – Anholt, Princes of Salm-Salm (bookplate and stamp).
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