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Author: Warner, Joseph
Title: Observations de Chirurgie, Avec des Remarques. L on y a Joint la Preparation & les Effets de l’Agaric de Chene dans les Hemorrhagies des Grandes Operations. Traduites de l’Anglois...par M. Daniel Magenis.
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Charles-Maurice d’Houry
Date Published: 1757
Description:

viii, (4), xii, (13)-70; 214 pp. Illustrated with four folding engraved plates, three of them large, containing a total of 13 figures, and numerous woodcut initials (several decorated), ornaments, printers devices, and head- and tailpieces (several elaborate), in the text. (8vo) 16.5x10 cm (6½x4") period full mottled calf, spine elaborately gilt with seven compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, red edges. Two parts in one volume. Complete with the Approbation & Privilege leaves. First French Edition.

With the two period ownership signatures on the title page, as well as the later neat ownership rubberstamp of (Mathias Louis) Mayor, Doctor of Chirurgerie (in Geneva), none affecting text. Warner (1717-1801), who was born in Antigua and studied under Samuel Sharpe at age 16, was a leading London practitioner, and later (from 1745 on), was chief surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London for more than forty years. He had the unique distinction of being a member of all three professional surgical organizations in London during the 18th century. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society. This title, his principal surgical work, was first published in London in 1754, and went through at least four editions as well as this scarce French translation. There are chapters on wounds, diseased joints, tendon surgery, and amputations. Blake, p. 481.

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Binding a bit worn at the extremities; corners rubbed, numbered label near heel of spine; title-page neatly repaired at the gutter, not affecting text, plates untrimmed, crisp, and bright; an attractive, near fine copy of the uncommon first French edition.