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Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. Very good. This leaf (M.CLXXVI-M.CLXXVII) measures approximately 8.25" x 12.5" and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d'Ambroise . . . Des Distillations. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The image on this leaf shows (roughly translated from Paré's French) a group of men stripping and transporting the inner bark of cinnamon trees. Paré, the French royal surgeon for many years, was the preeminent surgeon of his time and is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology as well as a pioneer of surgical techniques, battlefield medicine, and prosthetic design. He additionally had a scholarly interest in natural history, especially reports of "miraculous" or "monstrous" creatures and malformed births.

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. Very good. This leaf (VIII.CIX-VIII.CX) measures approximately 8.25" x 12.5" and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d'Ambroise . . . Des Venins. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The upper right corner of the leaf is missing, but there is no loss to the text or images. It contains an illustration which the text (in a rough summarized translation of Paré's French) describes as a Camphur, a fish-eating beast that lives on both land and water with a three and a half foot long horn on its forehead, rear feet like a goose, and front feet like a stag. Many have persuaded themselves that the horn should be an antidote against poisons. Paré, the French royal surgeon for many years, was the preeminent surgeon of his time and is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology as well as a pioneer of surgical techniques, battlefield medicine, and prosthetic design. He additionally had a scholarly interest in… Read More

Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1578. Disbound. Very good. This disbound leaf from Munsters Cosmographia measures 8" x 13.5". It contains six woodcuts showing unusual men and animals from the Indian subcontinent. The leaf is in nice shape with some marginal toning. One woodcut shows a pigmy conversing with a man from Dondun where the peoples' ears were so large they could be used as sleeping blankets. Three woodcuts picture storks: one of them shows giant storks fighting a human army. Another illustration shows an ant that is larger than a tree, and the last is of a monkey-man carrying his sword and spear. . Sebastian Munster was a cosmographer and professor of Hebrew who taught at several European universitys. During his life, he became the center of a network of scholars who provided him with maps, anecdotes, and descriptions of pehnomena of the known world. In 1554, he first published his "Cosmographia" which contained 471 woodcut illustrations and 26 maps. it was reprinted in six languages in 46… Read More