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The titlepage shows Eve and Adam cast out of paradise from various characters. A figure with a laurel wreath and caduceus in hand pulls Eve by the hair

xxxii, 708 page, folded plates. ; (4to)
Edited by D. Cox. Cf. "Introduction"
Translated from the German original by George Wirgman

Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909
1 print : halftone ; image 30.5 x 23.5 cm

1 print : 31 x 23 cm.
Technique:
etching, color

1 print : half-tone, printed in colour ; image 14.8 x 12.3 cm.

La torture est-elle bonne pour les goutteux?... Page 5. de Losques. Éditée par la "Pipérazine Midy"

1 print : 41 x 26 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
lithograph, color

Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic

Kamata Keishu, a pupil of the renowned surgeon Hanaoka Seishu (1760 - 1835),…

The operator excises the breast with the "tenaculum helvetianum", presumably to remove breast cancer. His assistant has a case of lancets etc. attached to his belt. A set of cautery irons is smouldering on a stand on the left. The patient is seated,…

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk over graphite on cream antique laid paper (?), partial framing line in brown ink, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper with gold leaf remnants from a previous mount; verso: red chalk and…

"This miniature was originally included in an antiphonary volume illuminated by Sano di Pietro for the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. The scene inside the initial D illustrates one of the responses for the Feast of Saint Agatha…