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456 - DIONIS, Pierre, *Courses on Surgical Procedures, Demonstrated at the Royal Garden [...]. Fourth edition. Revised [...] by G. de la Faye, sworn surgeon in Paris.* Paris: d'Houry, 1746. 8vo: xxxii-920 pp.; 16 pl. (marginal waterstains, occasional foxing). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-ornamented spine with raised bands, red title label (skillfully restored). "Fourth" edition (1st 1707) of one of the best books on the subject since the Renaissance, illustrated with 1 portrait, 1 frontispiece (public dissection in the anatomical theater) and 14 plates (1 fold-out depicting the “Jardin royal”) showing mostly surgical instruments, and numerous woodcut figures in the text. Dionis (1643–1718) was one of the leading surgeons of the 18th century. Louis XV appointed him to the chair of anatomy and surgery at the botanical garden (“Jardin des Plantes”). Ref. Blake 121 (lists 4 editions described as the “fourth edition”: Paris 1740, 1746, 1750, and 1751). - Wellcome II:471.
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DIONIS, Pierre, *Courses on Surgical Procedures, Demonstrated at the Royal Garden [...]. Fourth edition. Revised [...] by G. de la Faye, sworn surgeon in Paris.* Paris: d'Houry, 1746. 8vo: xxxii-920 pp.; 16 pl. (marginal waterstains, occasional foxing). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-ornamented spine with raised bands, red title label (skillfully restored). "Fourth" edition (1st 1707) of one of the best books on the subject since the Renaissance, illustrated with 1 portrait, 1 frontispiece (public dissection in the anatomical theater) and 14 plates (1 fold-out depicting the “Jardin royal”) showing mostly surgical instruments, and numerous woodcut figures in the text. Dionis (1643–1718) was one of the leading surgeons of the 18th century. Louis XV appointed him to the chair of anatomy and surgery at the botanical garden (“Jardin des Plantes”). Ref. Blake 121 (lists 4 editions described as the “fourth edition”: Paris 1740, 1746, 1750, and 1751). - Wellcome II:471.
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