[MEDICINE - SURGERY] - CHAULIAC (Guy de) - Cyrurgia Guidonis de Cauliaco. Et Cyrurgia Bruni. Teodorici Rolandi Lanfranci Rogerrii Bertapalie - Venetiis ; Bernardum Venetii de Vitalibus, 1519 (On the colophon : Recollectarum egregii doctoris Magistri Leonardi Bertapalie super quarto canonis avicenne finio. Venetis per Bernardinum Venetii de Vitalibus : Anno Dii. M.ccccc.xix. Die. Xx. Mensis februarii.) - 1 small volume In-folio (30,70x22 cm) - 267 leaves (some numbering errors), [1] page of table - Some rather rare and pale halos ; a few old marginal annotations, small black ink stain in the outer margin of folio 121, very small worm gallery beginning and ending at the pinhead of folios 6 to 44 - Text on 2 columns in Latin, gothic characters - Title in red and black ink surrounded by a rich woodcut frame, lettering and a few woodcut vignettes in text - Engraved and armorial bookplate on the 1st counter plate, manuscript bookplate (cut) at the top of the title, 1 third manuscript on the title: Le Monnier Bace med. 1739 - Bound in the following: [PRISCIANUS (Theodorus)] - [ALBUCASIS] - Octavii Horatiani [pseudonym] rerum Medicarum Lib. Quatuor. Albucasis Chirurgicorum omniu Primarii, Lib. Tres. [...] - Argent[orati] [Strasbourg] ; Apud Ioannem Schottum, 1532 - [IV] leaves, 319 pages (some numbering errors) - Scattered aureoles and stains, mainly marginal, leaves mostly yellowed, 2 very small tears in outer margin without missing on pages 77 and 78, discrete worm gallery ending in pinhead in the inner margin of the last 30 leaves - Title in large woodcut frame, lettering, numerous woodcut vignettes presenting a large variety of surgical instruments in text and 8 unsigned full-page figures by Hans Waechtlin: man with numerous wounds, cauterization, amputation, arrow extraction, bloodletting, skeletonization and 2 of trepanation - This volume includes 2 works: the 1st is the Latin translation by Theodorus Priscianus (active in ca. 400.) of his own collection on therapeutics, Euporista (Easy to prepare remedies), originally written in Greek. The second is a translation of one part of the famous Arabic medical work of Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi (also known by the Latin name Albucasis, 936-1013 c.), Al-Taṣ (Easy Remedies).), Al-Taṣrīf li man 'ajiza al-ta'līf (The [medical] method for one who could not compose [a manual for himself]) - Little is known about these two authors - Bound in the 2nd half of the 17th century in mottled tan basane (boards rubbed and heavily spotted, small lack of leather in the upper right corner of the 1st plate, jaws rubbed, 1 corner dull, 1st endpaper almost detached and 1st hinge cracked) - Spine ribbed and titled in gold (headpieces damaged) - Sides mottled with brown and red - Good copy of this rare collection of old post incunabula treatises of surgery. References : https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb372449588 https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb300012005