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SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio |
| Title: |
DE RECONDITA ABSCESSUU NATURA LIBRI VIII |
| Description: |
Second edition. Frankfurt, C. Rštellinus for J. Beyer, 1643. pp. (xxviii) with additional engraved title page, 468, (xxxxvi); 20 plates. 4to. Contemporary vellum, soiled. Top corner of f.e.p. torn away. Browning/spotting of the majority of the text, mainly light; water stain affecting first third of the work; soiling and spotting of outer half of engraved title. Small library stamp on verso of engraved title and main title with faint ink sig. at top of the latter. A tight copy in its original vellum binding. |
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* Krivatsky 11056; G&M 2273 (first edition, Naples, 1632); HoH 449 - 'This work, 'The Obscure Nature of Tumours', is one of the first illustrated texts of surgical pathology and established Severino (1580-1656) as one of the pioneers in the field. The 20 plates are among the first to depict pathological lesions and to include diseased organs as well as complete views of the individual with the tumour. In the chapter on breast neoplasms he delineates four types and differentiates quite clearly between the concept of benign and malignant tumours'. £550 £475 |
| Author: |
VELPEAU, A. |
| Title: |
TRAITÉ DES MALADIES DU SEIN ET LA RÉGION MAMMAIRE |
| Description: |
2nd Edition. Paris, Victor Masson. 1858. pp. lvii, 703; 8 engraved plates with descriptive text and errata, occasional text Figs, tables of statistics. Contemporary quarter red morocco, marbled boards, a little rubbed; occasional spotting. Very sound copy. |
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* G&M 5771 (First edition of 1854) - 'Velpeau was the leading French surgeon of the first half of the 19th century. His great treatise on tumours of the breast, his best work, was the most important of its time on the subject. It includes a good account of hyperplastic disease of the breast' £245 £180 |
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