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Scultetus (Schultes), Ioannes. Cheiroplotheke [greek letters] seu Armamentarium Chirurgicum XLIII tabulis aeri eleganissime incisis, ne ante hac visis, exornatum. Opus posthumum. Editio quinta.

Engraved title. With 44 engr. full-page illus. of which nos. XXIX to XXXXIIII on separate plates. 11 unn. leaves, 317 pp., (11) pp. index. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. – Venetiis (Venice), Typis Combi et La Nou, 1665.

Venice edition (fifth edition) of the same year as the Ulm first edition in folio of the main surgical treatiese by the German physician Johannes Scultetus (or Schultes, 1595–1645). Scultetus was town physician in Ulm. Many of the surgical instruments shown on the instructive plates were invented by Scultetus himself and allowed preciser methods of surgical procedures. – Cf. Garrison/Morton 5571 (1st ed.) – Engraved title with colouring. Bookplate „Plöderl“ on first paste-down. Lacking first flyleaf. A very good and clean copy. – Best.-Nr. 24487