WISEMAN, RICHARD

Severall Chirurgicall Treatises. London: E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R. Royston, 1676

Quarto (12 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; 318 x 191 mm). [16], 498, 79, [15] p., half-title; a few closed marginal tears, sඣome marginal tears with minor loss, minor marginal worming, occasional minor spotting and staining. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, later paper label; overall rubbed, joints starting, front and rear free endpapers loose. 

First edition 

Wiseman was the first consultant surgeon in London, and the most prominent practitioner during the English Civil War. Recording over 600 case histories, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises is regarded as a landmark text in ▨western medicine. 🌳;

REFERENCE:

ESTC R12081; Garrison & Morton 5573; Heirs of Hippocrates 350; Norman 2253; Osler 4258; Wing W-3107

PROVENANCE:

Jonathan Fisher (signatures to front free endpapers, and dated 1692); Jacobus Fisher (signature to꧋ front free endpaper, and dated 1707); John Hare (signature to title-page)