De renunciatione vulnerum seu vulnerum lethalium examen, exponens horum Formalitatem & Causas, tam in genere, quam in Specie ac per singulas Corporis partes. by Bohn, Johannnes - 1689

8vo (16,2 x 9,2 cm). [8], 400, [8] pp. Contemporary calf, red speckled edges. From the library of French anatomist Thomas Lauth (1758-1826), with his etched bookplate on front paste-down, contemporary name on title-page ("Gottfrid Preuser"), paper browned, corners bumped and spine damaged.

Surprisingly rare first edition of an influential work on forensic medicine.

Johannes Bohn (1640-1666) was a Leipzig anatomist and one of the founders of forensic medicine. The present work "was of great importance at his time, and distinguished ante- and postmortem wounds and wounds deadly per se (per se seu absolute lethalia) from accidental factors (ca accidenc lethalia). He was in favour of complete medicolegal autopsies instead of wound inspection and described procedures to be followed" (Madea).

No copies sold at auction in the last 20 years.

Krivatsky 1432; VD17 23:239247A (6 copies); cf. DSB II, pp. 237-238; Fortschritte der Rechtsmedizin. Festschrift für Georg Schmidt, pp. 3-5; Madea, Handbook for Forensic Medicine, p. 10.