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Opera Ambrosii Parei ... / a docto viro plerisque locis recognita: et latinitate donata Iacobi Guillemeau ... labore et diligentia.
- Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590
- Date
- 1582
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Publication/Creation
Parisiis : Apud Iacobum Du-Puys, 1582.
Physical description
5 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves, 884 pages, 1,112 unnumbered leaves : woodcut illustrations & portraits ; (folio)
Notes
"Although Paré's Opera is known as Guillemeau's translation, and is so indicated on the title-page, it was in reality the work of someone else, unidentified" (Doe, p. 157-58)
Copy 1 Note: T.p. and last (blank) leaf wanting.
Copy 2. Incomplete: lacks title page, some prelim. leaves, portrait, final leaf of index, and several pages within the text (pp. 737-740, 769-778, 785-788, 795-796, 875-884). Penultimate leaf of index torn at head with loss. Stamps of Manchester Medical Society, also their presentation booklabel dated 1861.
Copy 3. Imperfect: lacks title page, preliminary leaves with sig. ã3-4, and sig. LLi (supplied in Ms.) and LLvi. Autograph on flyleaf: 'Joseph Dickinson Trin[ity] Coll[ege] Dub[lin] 1836'; also autograph of John Wallace M.D. 1879.
References note
Doe 46
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Languages
- Latin
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Copy 1
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/D/4824/1Copy 2
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/D/4824/2Copy 3
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/D/4824/3