Opera Ambrosii Parei ... / a docto viro plerisque locis recognita: et latinitate donata Iacobi Guillemeau ... labore et diligentia.

Parisiis : Apud Iacobum Du-Puys, 1582.

5 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves, 884 pages, 1,112 unnumbered leaves : woodcut illustrations & portraits ; (folio)

Doe 46

"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.