The Frenche chirurgerye, or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye, with divers, and sundrye figures, and amongst the rest certayne nuefownde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of chirurgerye / Through Jacques Guillemeau ... And now truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A. M.

Dort : Isaac Canin, 1597 [colophon 1598]

20 unnumbered pages, 54 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves, engr. t.pages & inclu. plates. ; (folio)

STC 12498

ESTC S122176

Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 12498

STC (2nd ed.), 12498

Engraved title page and 13 full-page plates, with legends in Dutch and English, in "The thesauarye, or storehouse of chyrurgerye" (leaves [7-20]) are based on those of the original French edition of 1594, published in Paris

"To the gentle, & curiouse reader" (leaf [6]) signed: A. M

Includes the appended "Methodicale discorse" on dysentery (leaves 47-49) and "An apologye, for the chirurgians" (leaves 49-54)

Dedication to Ladye Elisabeth ... Queene of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande," signed by her "wellwillinge subjecte," Maximiliane Bauman, "chirurgien at Dort, who causede ... [the work] to be translated both into English and Lowdutch" The Dutch translation was also published at Dordrecht in 1598 under title: De Fransoysche chirurgie. (Cf. Bibl. Walleriana 3842 and Bibl. medica Nederlandica)