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A Sure Guide or, The Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chyrurgery: That is to say, The Arts of Healing by Medicine, and Manual Operation. Being An Anatomical Description of the whole Body of Man, and its Parts, with their Respective Diseases, demonstrated from the Fabrick and Use of the said Parts. In Six Books. Viz. 1, Describing all, and every of the Bones of Mans Body, according to the Ancient Method. 2. Describing the Belly, and all its Parts and Bowels... 3. Describing the Chest and all its Parts and Contents... 4. Describing the Head, and Face... 6. Describing the Limbs of the Body with the many Regiments of Muscles... 5. Containing a new Description of the Bones, by a Method first invented by the Author... At the End of these Six Books, is added twenty four Tables, Cut in Brass, containing one hundred eighty four Figures, with an Explanation of them... Written in Latin, By Johannes Riolanus, Junior; Doctor of Physick, Physician in ordinary to the Queen Mother of France many years together, and the la
by Riolan, Jean (Riolanus, Johannes)
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London: Printed by John Streater, And are to be sold by George Sambridge, at the Sign of the BIBLE on Ludgate-Hill. , 1671. Third edition. Small folio in fours. [8], 142, 191 - 288, [12]pp [48] leaves of plates. Signatures A4, D - P4, T - 2N4, 3A - 3C2. Twenty four double plates with letter press explanation on inner verso and numbered engravings on inner recto. Translation of Encheiridium anatomicum et pathalogicum, first published in Paris 1648. ESTC Citation no R15596. Contemporary sheep binding with five raised bands to spine. Some edge and corner wear with a little loss at the head of the spine. Joints lightly cracked. Some old damp staining to lower margins. Minor worm tracks to lower margins of E1 - L3. Front end paper torn across lower corner with some loss. Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil, earl of Lonsdale to front pastedown. Collation is correct and complete but the following page misnumbering is evident:- Page 33 as 40, 40 as 43, 119 as 116, 122 as 127, 123 as 112, 126 as 120, 127 as 122, 209 as 219.
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- A Sure Guide or, The Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chyrurgery: That is to say, The Arts of Healing by Medicine, and Manual Operation. Being An Anatomical Description of the whole Body of Man, and its Parts, with their Respective Diseases, demonstrated from the Fabrick and Use of the said Parts. In Six Books. Viz. 1, Describing all, and every of the Bones of Mans Body, according to the Ancient Method. 2. Describing the Belly, and all its Parts and Bowels... 3. Describing the Chest and all its Parts and Contents... 4. Describing the Head, and Face... 6. Describing the Limbs of the Body with the many Regiments of Muscles... 5. Containing a new Description of the Bones, by a Method first invented by the Author... At the End of these Six Books, is added twenty four Tables, Cut in Brass, containing one hundred eighty four Figures, with an Explanation of them... Written in Latin, By Johannes Riolanus, Junior; Doctor of Physick, Physician in ordinary to the Queen Mother of France many years together, and the la
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- Riolan, Jean (Riolanus, Johannes)
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- Printed by John Streater, And are to be sold by George Sambridge, at the Sign of the BIBLE on Ludgate-Hill.
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- London
- Date Published
- 1671
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