Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Croissant de Garengeot, René Jacques. Nouveau traité des instrumens de chirurgie les plus utiles, et de plusieurs nouvelles machines propres pour les maladies des os [...]. Seconde edition augmentée de plusieurs figures. 2 vols.

With 64 engr. plates. 14 leaves, 433, (9) pp; 2 leaves, 380, (10) pp. 8vo. Contemp.calf, spine with label gilt, gilt armoiral supralibros on all boards. – Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1727.

Enlarged second edition of Croissant de Garengeot’s (1688–1759) treatise on surgical instruments. Copy from the estate of the Kinsky family with their armorial supralibros, later of Joachim Ramschissl with his ms. entry on flyleaf. Garengeot studied in Paris with Mareschal, Winslow, and Petit and became a surgeon at the Régiment du Roy. In 1729 he became a member of the Royal Society in London. – Outer hinge of vol. I with ca. 3 cm tear. A handsome and clean copy in all in a contemporary noble binding. – Best.-Nr. 24502