[Rarebooks] FS: Two rare 16th cent. medical texts bound together

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(MEDICINE) Gesner, Conrad (ed.). DE CHIRURGIA SCRIPTORES Optimi Quique 
Veteres et Recentiores, Plerique in Germania Antehac non Editi, Nunc Primum in Unum 
Conjuncti Volumen… Zurich: Andreas and Jakob Gessner. 1555. Folio. 
ff.(10),408,(21). Index. Without the final blank. With large printer’s device on title 
and the leaf before the index. Text illustrated with 260 woodcuts. BOUND WITH: 
Dessen, Bernard von Kronenburg. DE COMPOSITIONE MEDICAMENTORUM, Hodierno Aevo, 
Apud Pharmacopolas… Libri X. Frankfurt: Apud. Haered Chr. Egenolphi. 1555. 
Folio. ff.(18),154. Woodcut device on title and final verso. Index. Title page a 
bit soiled. Both works bound together in cont. roll-tooled paneled pigskin, 
with both fore-edge clasps (one brass catch missing). Bottom of spine a bit 
chipped.     $12,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
I. First edition of an important collection of surgical texts, with 
contributions by about 150 authors, including Conrad Gessner, Galen, Oribasius, 
Heliodorus, Jean Tagault, etc. An important work for the illustrations regarding 
field surgery, bandaging, anatomical and skeletal cuts after Vesalius, etc., etc. 
Durling 960. Garrison-Morton 5562. Wellcome 1460.
II. The first edition of this rare and important 16th century pharmaceutical 
text. The author is sometimes listed under “Cronenburg, Bernard Dessenius van.”
 Dessen (1510-1574) was a physician in Cologne, and wrote on a number of 
medical subjects including the plague. See Durling 1120. BL German STC p. 229. Not 
in Wellcome.

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