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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

2 volumes, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to); this volume does not include surgical tools for breast cancer removal or the "tenaculum helvetianum" (tenette helvétienne), images show the surgeon present and not-present with tools

2 volumes, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to); also edition without the surgery of breast cancer

Partial contents.--v. 1, p. xii-xvi. Joannis Zachariae Platneri Diss. de chirurgia artis medicae parente.--p. 210-222. [Joannis Mayow] Appendix de rachitide.--v. 2, p. 366-398. De gibbis, valgis, varis ... Marco Aurelio Severino.; vol. 1 only so…

"complete set" but still does not show cancer removal tools for mastectomies
4 volumes in 2, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)

Pen drawing by ZS (?); Inscribed in ink: "Not to be used except by special permission HWL."; After: J. Scultetus, Armamentarium chirurgiae, Lyon 1603

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm; Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p. 236; Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt…

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.)

xxxii, 708 page, folded plates. ; (4to)
Edited by D. Cox. Cf. "Introduction"
Translated from the German original by George Wirgman

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 30.3 x 37.8 cm
Table XLIV Table XLV / Table XLIII