Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco

54. TAGLIAcOZZI, Gaspare. de curtorum
chirurgia, libri duo. Venetiis, G.Bindoni, 1597,
€ 23.000
folio, pp.(28), 94, 2 blanc, 95, 47, (32), modern red
morocco. Woodcut text illustrations, including 22 full
page depicting the author’s instruments and the individual
steps of the various reconstructive operations through the
post-operative stage. First edition of the book which founded
plastic surgery, and among the most important
medical books of the 16th century. Tagliacozzi describes
the method of rhinoplasty that uses a graft from the
patient’s arm; yet his contemporaries refused to adopt his
methods, because the Catholic Church regarded it as meddling
with the work of God. Garrison-Morton 5734.
Durling 4310. Rutkow p.157. Wellcome I, 6210. [18890]
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