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Medicine - Dionis, Pierre. Surgical Operations, or: A Detailed Guide to Wound Treatment, with Numerous Surgical Instruments, Some of Which Are Entirely New Inventions, as Well as Other Matters Necessary for Surgeons to Know, Very Clearly Illustrated in Copperplate. Translated from the French by Selintes (= Christian Weissbach). With an engraved portrait and 61 (of 62) copperplate illustrations. Augsburg, Küntz, 1712. 10 leaves, 884 pp., 13 leaves. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary parchment binding (slightly stained). First German edition of the famous handbook *Cours d’opérations de chirurgie*. — Louis XIV appointed Dionis as his royal personal physician in 1680. “Dionis taught operative surgery at the Jardin-du-Roi in Paris, a famous training ground for surgeons” (Garrison-Morton). – Missing plate no. 7 is bound in as a facsimile on old paper. – Slightly stained or browned in places. *
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