CHEIROPLOTHEKE, SEU ARMAMENTARIUM CHIRURGICUM XLIII
Ulm: Balthasar Kühnen, 1655. First Edition. Folio, [2], 10, 132, [3] pages with 43 plates, numbered 1-27, 27 (28), 29-43. In Good condition. Rebound in modern full black leather with gilt titling to spine and folio sized manuscript waste paper from original binding pasted to exteriors of both front and rear boards. Light rubbing to corners of boards. Text block with light plus age toning, moderate foxing, and damp staining to gutter and lower corners which impacts printed areas but does not impinge readability. Light plus chipping and wear to page edges, with rounding to corners. Archival repairs and reinforcing to edges of multiple pages, including title page. Pl. no. 38 with small burn hole through '8' of '38'; pl. no. 39 numbered 93; pls. no. 40-42 reenforced. KL consignment. [Shelved in Room A Oversized].
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Johannees Schulteiss (1595-1645) was one of the first academically-trained surgeons and physicians to work in 17th-century Germany. At the age of 20 or 21 he met and became the assistant of Adrian van Der Spieghel, a Dutch physician traveling to Padua to become a professor of anatomy there. Schulteiss enrolled in the university and graduated with honors in 1623. He subsequently returned to his hometown of Ulm, where he practiced as a physician. After his death, his many notes were compiled and edited by his nephew, also called Johannes Schulteiss, also a University of Padua graduate, and also a physician. Schulteiss' observations were published in 1655 accompanied by the engravings of German artist Jonas Arnold. The work was issued in numerous editions and translations, but only the first edition was issued in folio.
Garrison-Morton 5571. Heirs of Hippocrates 466. VD 17, 39:153208L.