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HEISTER, Laurence (Lorenz). A General System of Surgery. In Three Parts. Containing the Doctrine and Management I. Of Wounds, Fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers, of all kinds. II. Of the several Operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several Bandages applied in all Operations and Disorders. The Whole illustrated with Thirty-Eight Copper-Plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice. To which is prefixed an Introduction concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and Improvements of Surgery; with such other Preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a Work of Thirty Years Experience. Translated into English from the Latin of Dr. Laurence Heister...
London: Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson..., 1753. Fifth edition. 4to., full contemporary calf, professionally rebacked in the 20th century with a brown leather spine, red leather spine label, xvi, 476; 336, (8)pp. index. With 37 OF 38 PLATES ONLY (LACKING PLATE XXIX). Lacking plate XXIX and Plate XXXVIII has been torn and is lacking half the plate, rebacked, with some wear to the corners but o/w a very good copy, albeit lacking a plate. Heirs of Hippocrates 787 citing first edition in English, 1743.
‘Heister, a German surgeon as well as an excellent anatomist, published his Chirurgie in 1718. It was the standard work on surgery in the eighteenth century, becoming one of the most translated, most used, and most respected texts ever written, and was still used as a standard text at Vienna as late as 1838. Heister had a sweeping knowledge of surgery, and the thirty-eight folding copperplate illustrations of braces and bandages were long followed and are prototypes of those still in use'. (Heirs of Hippocrates).
$600
HEISTER, Laurence (Lorenz). A General System of Surgery. In Three Parts. Containing the Doctrine and Management I. Of Wounds, Fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers, of all kinds. II. Of the several Operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several Bandages applied in all Operations and Disorders. The Whole illustrated with Thirty-Eight Copper-Plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice. To which is prefixed an Introduction concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and Improvements of Surgery; with such other Preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a Work of Thirty Years Experience. Translated into English from the Latin of Dr. Laurence Heister... London: Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson..., 1753. Fifth edition. 4to., full contemporary calf, professionally rebacked in the 20th century with a brown leather spine, red leather spine label, xvi, 476; 336, (8)pp. index. With 37 OF 38 PLATES ONLY (LACKING PLATE XXIX). Lacking plate XXIX and Plate XXXVIII has been torn and is lacking half the plate, rebacked, with some wear to the corners but o/w a very good copy, albeit lacking a plate. Heirs of Hippocrates 787 citing first edition in English, 1743.
‘Heister, a German surgeon as well as an excellent anatomist, published his Chirurgie in 1718. It was the standard work on surgery in the eighteenth century, becoming one of the most translated, most used, and most respected texts ever written, and was still used as a standard text at Vienna as late as 1838. Heister had a sweeping knowledge of surgery, and the thirty-eight folding copperplate illustrations of braces and bandages were long followed and are prototypes of those still in use'. (Heirs of Hippocrates).
$600
