MEDICINE]. PARE (Ambroise). Les Oeuvres d'Ambroise Paré, con - Lot 65

MEDICINE]. PARE (Ambroise). Les Oeuvres d'Ambroise Paré, conseiller et Premier Chirurgien du Roy [...]. A Paris, chez la Veufve Buon, 1598. In-folio, full brown basane, boards cold-stamped with framed decoration, beginning of binding, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons (period binding). Frontispiece title, lettering and bandeaux, woodcuts in the text. Fifth edition containing only the first 22 books, the portrait in deficit; this important collection in the history of medicine made the reputation of the father of French surgery. Restoration to binding, spine rebound. Staining and traces of mildew, margin restorations on the first 10 and last 30 leaves, last page missing. Handwritten bookplate on title of Nicolas Patoillat.