THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GASPARE TAGLIACOZZI, SURGEON OF BOLOGNA, 1545-1599, with a Documented Study of the Scientific and Cultural Life of Bologna in the Sixteenth Century

Gnudi, Martha Teach and Jerome Pierce Webster

Milano and New York: Ulrico Hoepli and Herbert Reichner, 1950. Wraps. Limited to 2,100 numbered copies. Tagliacozzi's innovative surgical technique, which consisted of reconstructing parts of the face by grafting, was masterfully described in the work that made him famous, "De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem" (1597). Quarto: xxii, 538 p. with a frontispiece portrait and 54 plates. Original limp faux vellum binding, with red stamping. Largely unopened. Light dust spotting along the edges. The dust jacket is a little toned along the extremities; otherwise very good. Very good / Very good. Item #77480

Price: $75.00