"Beautiful "complete Treatise On Surgical Operations" In Paris By Mr. De La Vauguion, Et. Michalet"
Rare beautiful treatise on Surgery that I bought in the United States and which deserves to be returned to France, this rare "Complete Treatise on Surgical Operations", containing: Their Definitions, Their Causes explained on the part, The Signs of the diseases which oblige us to perform the operation, the manual Operation, the apparatus for each operation, the cure until a perfect cure, the Remarks of the most famous Practitioners of Europe, mainly of Fabricius Hildanus on each operation, an exact Treatise on natural and laborious childbirths, an Instruction for Surgeons at sea. With intaglio figures of all the compound bandages which serve for the apparatus of all the sutures, and of some machines very useful to Surgeons; By Monsieur de laVauguion D. M. In Paris, at Estienne Michallet, first Printer to the King, rue Saint-Jacques, at the Image Saint Paul. M.DC. XCVI. (1696). Very beautiful large volume in 8; full sheepskin spine with raised bands decorated with gilt iron in the boxes, ochre morocco title, speckled edges, beautiful contemporary binding for this copy illustrated at the end of the work with 10 beautiful engraved plates, Very rare and complete work from the time of Louis XIV;