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Surgical treatise explaining use of "tenaculum helvetianum" (tenette helvétienne) used prominently in images of Saint Agatha to torture the saint, pp. 153-155 and folding plate f.p. 153

print, engraving

1 print : engraving ; image 28.4 x 22 cm
Lettering
I.D. Gheyn inv. Andr. Stoc. scul.

Is part of: De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, p. 271.; See related catalog record: 2234047R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut

Is part of: A system of surgery, Plate XVII.; See related catalog record: 2543021R
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1 print
Technique:
engraving

Is part of: A system of surgery.; See related catalog record: 2543021R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
engraving

11 volumes : plates (some folded) ; (folio); Vol. 10 containes the frontispiece to the Encyclopédie.
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: False imprint; there were two 'Paris eds., one published at Geneva (see new BM Cat.)

Is part of: A system of surgery, Plate XVI.; See related catalog record: 2543021R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
engraving

Is part of: Microcosmus hypochondriacus; sive, De melancholia hypochondriaca tractatus, title page.; See related catalog record: 2352066R
Extent:
1 print
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engraving

Is part of: Erster[-dritte] Theil der grossen Wundartzney; title page.; See related catalog record: 2273065R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut
book illustration