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Elizabeth Hopkins of Oxford, showing a breast with cancer which was removed by Sir William Read
A case of breast cancer; 1 print : engraving ; image and text 7.2 x 6.3 cm; He cut off a very large cancerated breast from the body of Elizabeth Hopkins of Oxford, in 1689, and perfectly cured her: For that and many other considerable cures, he hath…
Mrs Prince, after surgical removal of a breast
A woman of about 40 years of age in a lace cap, wearing a dark purple dress, open to below the bosom, and a yellow shawl, her right breast surgically removed, the wound open; 1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 61.5 x 49 cm; Cancer of the breast. Mrs.…
[Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers] / par une sociéte de gens de lettres. Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication
11 volumes : plates (some folded) ; (folio); Vol. 10 containes the frontispiece to the Encyclopédie.
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: False imprint; there were two 'Paris eds., one published at Geneva (see new BM Cat.)
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: False imprint; there were two 'Paris eds., one published at Geneva (see new BM Cat.)
Chirurgie
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm; Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p. 236; Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt…
Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound
Pen drawing by ZS (?); Inscribed in ink: "Not to be used except by special permission HWL."; After: J. Scultetus, Armamentarium chirurgiae, Lyon 1603
Saint Agatha
1 print : photogravure, printed in colours ; image 12.6 x 7.7 cm; S. Agata, verg. e mart. Lunedi 5 Febbraio; On verso, biography of the saint and prayer in Italian with imprimatur dated Milan 1898
The martyrdom of Saint Agatha
1 print : engraving ; platemark 25.4 x 18.3 cm; Dedicated to Prudentia, the daughter of the painter Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), who was a nun in the convent of Saint Agatha in Florence; S. Agatha, virgo et martyr. Venerabili ac religiosae virgini…
Institutiones chirurgicae in quibus quicquid ad rem chirurgicam pertinet, optima et novissima ratione pertractatur atque in tabulis multis aeneis praestantissima ac maxime necessaria instrumenta itemque artificia, sive encheirises praecipuae et vincturae chirurgicae repraesentantur / Opus ... quod in hac novissima editione Neapolitana dissertationibus, cum auctoris, tum aliorum selectis ad rem chirurgicam spectantibus auctum atque mendis typographicis, quibus Veneta scatebat ... expurgatum prodit in lucem.
"complete set" but still does not show cancer removal tools for mastectomies
4 volumes in 2, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)
4 volumes in 2, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)