Item #62217 The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Paré. Containing the Voyages made into Divers Places with many of his writings upon Surgery, Edited and with an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. Ambroise PARÉ, George BAKER, Geoffrey KEYNES.

The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Paré. Containing the Voyages made into Divers Places with many of his writings upon Surgery, Edited and with an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

London: Falcon Educational Books, 1951. [Medicine] FIRST THUS, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR, with a manuscript letter. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 227 [1]. With four wood-engraved portraits of Pare, including a frontispiece, a vignette 'Wound Man' to the title page, and several in-text woodcut illustrations. INSCRIBED by the editor in brown ink to fly-leaf: 'Peter Steel | for May 24, 1952 | with best wishes from | Geoffrey Keynes.' Also with a manuscript letter from Keynes on a single folded sheet of headed note paper in the same ink and hand, wishing the recipient his very best wishes on the occasion of his marriage. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge brown. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Edges a little toned, with some bumping to corners. Jacket toned and rubbed to spine, with wear and chipping to edges, and a red mark to front panel. Very good. Item #62217

Price: £48.00

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