DEVAUX, Jean. L'Art de faire les rapports en chirurgie. Où l - Lot 196

DEVAUX, Jean. L'Art de faire les rapports en chirurgie. Où l'on enseigne la pratique, les formules & le stile le plus en usage parmi les chirurgiens commis aux raports: avec un extrait des arrêts, statuts et reglements faits en conséquence par feu M. Devaux. Published in Paris by Chez la veuve d'Houry in 1730. In twelve / In-12 (17cm) format. Charming brown calf. Ribbed spine decorated with gilt flowered boxes. Red edges. Contemporary binding. XII-659 pages. Headcap slightly worn, hinge of second plate marked. Tiny scattered brown spots. New edition of this surgical treatise. Compared to the first edition of 1703, it is enlarged with formulas from extraordinary cases observed in the reports and registers kept by the king's surgeons - according to the notice on this new edition (p. VII). This treatise shows the evolution of the role of surgery in legal cases at the beginning of the 18th century. The copy contains an amusing Delafaye bookplate and a handwritten bookplate dated 1736 at the end of the work. In good condition.