552 - Gessner, Conrad. *Chirurgia*. The finest authors on surgery, both ancient and modern—many of whom had not previously been published in Germany—are now brought together for the first time in a single volume. The individual authors included in this volume, along with their works, are listed on the following page. With 2 woodcut printer’s marks and 260 woodcut illustrations. Zurich, Gessner, 1555. 10 (the last one blank), 408 (correctly 406), 22 (the last one blank) folios. 32 x 21.5 cm. 17th-century leather binding with 2 gilded coat-of-arms supralibros, gilded spine, and 2 spine labels (spine and corners restored, slightly stained and showing signs of scratches).

Gessner, Conrad. *Chirurgia*. The finest authors on surgery, both ancient and modern—many of whom had not previously been published in Germany—are now brought together for the first time in a single volume. The individual authors included in this volume, along with their works, are listed on the following page. With 2 woodcut printer’s marks and 260 woodcut illustrations. Zurich, Gessner, 1555. 10 (the last one blank), 408 (correctly 406), 22 (the last one blank) folios. 32 x 21.5 cm. 17th-century leather binding with 2 gilded coat-of-arms supralibros, gilded spine, and 2 spine labels (spine and corners restored, slightly stained and showing signs of scratches). First edition of the collection compiled by Conrad Gesner. - VD16 G 1707 - Adams G 520 - Vischer K 32 - Wellisch 36.1 - Waller I, 1959 - Wellcome I, 1460 - Garrison-M. 5562 - Durling 960 - Osler 643 - Fischer, Gessner, p. 86. - In this work, Gessner wrote the dedication to the Augsburg physician Geryonus Seiler, the treatise on the history and dignity of surgery, a very detailed bibliography on surgery, and probably also the general index. - The woodcuts depict medical instruments, such as scissors, hooks, spatulas, bandages, and various machines used for surgical operations. The two woodcuts on p. 55 by Jos Murer (Hollstein 29, nos. 5a–b) depict a man wounded by various weapons and two physicians treating a wounded man, with a battle scene in the background. - With the index, which is missing in some copies (Choulant 418). "The list of surgical writers and their works that Gesner appended to this book is one of the earliest bibliographies on surgery." (Garrison-M). - Pages 227–228 are missing from the page count. - Loose endpaper verso with mounted catalog description; title page with 2 contemporary ownership inscriptions, scattered faint stains, and a few old marginal notes; faint water stains on the top edge in the last third and on the margins of a few pages; overall, a fine copy. *