ROSTINIO, Pietro and Lodovico, and Leonardo FIERAVANTI.

Compenio di Tutta Cirugia, ... Et hora dall'eccell. dottore, & canaliero M. Leonardo Fioravanti ... Di nuovo ristampato, & con molta diligenza ricorretto dall'eccell. Borgarucci.Venice, Lodovico Avanzo, 1568. 8vo. Title-page with woodcut publishers device, 8 woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments, and decorative woodcut initials from 4 series. Limp vellum, made from a leaf from a Mediaeval manuscript.

8, (16), 175 (1 blank) ll. Wellcome Lib. 5580; Ist. Cent. Cat. Unico (4 copies); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (6 copies), OCLC WorldCat (2 copies); cf. Durling 3951-3953 (other eds.); not in Adams; BMC STC Italian; Mortimer (Italian).Third edition, by the publisher of the first edition, of a sixteenth-century compendium of medical and especially surgical practice. The eight full-page woodcuts, with letterpress captions, contain eighteen figures showing surgical instruments. Further with two 2-page dedications, 12 pages with 6 letters on medicine addressed to various people, a 3-page introduction, a 9-page index, a chapter on medical instruments with the 8 woodcut illustrations, 350 pages of texts on medical practice by Pietro and Lodovico Rostinio and Leonardo Fieravanti, and a 2-page conclusion with a list of other publications by Fieravanti. Although the title-page gives Pietro and Lodovico Rostinio first billing as authors, the book often refers to the author in the singular and the list of books by the author contains only books by Fieravanti. The first edition appeared in 1557.With a manuscript list of causes of fevers not mentioned in the book on the front fly-leaf and an occasional marginal note. A good copy. Nicely illustrated sixteenth-century work on medicine and surgery.

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