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Lyon: Jean Gregoire, 1664. 12th Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. LES OEUVRES DE AMBROISE PARE, CONSEILLER ER PREMIER CHIRURGIEN DU ROY by Ambroise Paré. Folio. 852 text pages + index. Contemporaneous full leather over boards. Spine is gilt stamped with raised bands and seven compartments. Hinges are sound. Pages browned, occasional small stains. Corners bumped. Top and bottom corners of spine and front edges of boards are rubbed. Page 653 damaged & taped, and laid over full blank page. No bookplate. Several "ex libris...." in antique hand. All pages from 1-852 are present, as are all introductory pages, as well as the index. Thirty books in one volume with profusely illustrated with woodcuts. Covers diverse topics including anatomy, muscles, the skeleton, tumors, wounds of war, arthritis, gangrene, leprosy & plague, childbirth, bandages, fractures, distillations, surgical instruments, prostheses, and bizarre creatures. Ambroise… Read More

Antwerp, 1681. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae Secundum Missale & Breviarium Romanum Roman Catholic breviary published in Antwerp in 1681. Leather binding with cracks on spine. Top and bottom edge of spine rubbed. Front joint starting from top through middle. Hinges broken, some signatures separated. Paper darkened with age, with some foxing.

London: Dodsley, 1777. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Six volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 printed in London for Dodsley in 1777. Volumes 3-6 printed in London in 1776 for Strahan, Becket, and Cadell. Volume 1 contains engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Contains 45 sermons. Size: 6.25" tall (16mo). Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt stamped spine with red and green morocco labels. Five volumes contain laid in Art Deco bookplates of Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), British journalist, writer, publisher, and one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) is the author of THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN and A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY, as well as his sermons and memoirs. "Mr. Yorick" is a pseudonym of Laurence Sterne. Very Good. Binding tight, joints sound. Rubbed at top and bottom of spines and on corners. Toning to endpapers. There are light… Read More