Chirurgia
28.01.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
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CHRISTIE'SAuctioneer | CHRISTIE'S |
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Event location | USA, New York |
ID 1360720
Lot 4 | Chirurgia
Estimate value
8000USD $ 8 000 – 12 000
A tall copy of the fourth edition, reprinting the third edition of 1497/98. An accomplished pupil of Guido de Cauliaco, Petrus de Argellata ‘was skilled in dentistry, used sutures and drainage-tubes in wounds, trephined the skull, incised the linea alba in post-mortem Caesarean section, and sometimes operated for hernia, stone, and fistula in ano’ (Garrison). His Chirurgia ‘contains a good deal of therapeutics and, as usual, a part is devoted to gynaecology and obstetrics. When Pope Alexander V died at Bologna in 1410, Argellata made a post-mortem examination which is described in his work’ (Sarton). Early annotations show close study of this copy, and are most abundant in the chapters on wounds. F.H. Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine (Saunders, 1924). G. Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science (Carnegie Institution, 1947). HC(+Add)R 1639; H 1638; BMC V 588; BSB-Ink A-669; Bod-inc A-378; GW 2324; Goff A-954; Klebs 777.4; ISTC ia00954000.
Chancery folio (306 × 210mm). 131 leaves (of 132, without blank). Woodcut initials, occasional spaces with guide-letters (small wormholes mostly repaired at lower corner of quires e-g, faint marginal dampstains slightly heavier in gatherings l-n, occasional light stains). 18th-century sheep-backed boards (a little rubbed, tips showing). Provenance: extensive annotations in at least one early hand.
Place of origin: | Italy |
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Auction house category: | Antiquarian books, Medicine & science, Printed books |
Place of origin: | Italy |
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Auction house category: | Antiquarian books, Medicine & science, Printed books |
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