Medicine - Surgery - Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Hieronymus. Opera chirurgica in duas Partes divisa. Quarum prior operationes chirurgicas ... comprehendit. ... Altera pars libros quinque chirurgiae, ... sub nomine Pentateuchi chirurgici divulgatos; ... 2 parts and appendix in 1 volume. With 2 woodcut printer's marks and numerous woodcut initials. Venice, R. Megliett, 1619. 10 pp. 187, 10 pp. 178, 26 pp. 31 x 21 cm. Leather binding (18th century) with spine label (rubbed, front cover with pressure marks). First edition. - Krivatsy 3805 - not in Wellcome, Osler, Waller-Hirsch and Garrison-M. - Important collection of surgical treatises by Fabricius, Harvey's teacher. He was the most famous Italian surgeon of the Renaissance. His fame as a teacher attracted many students to his place of work in Padua. - The work is particularly important for the history of orthopaedics (for details see Valentin, Geschichte der Orthopädie 68ff.). - Slight waterstaining and some browning throughout, last leaf partly reinforced with Japan and with restored losses (little loss of text).