WOODALL, John

The Surgions Mate. A Complete Facsimile of the Book published in 1617. Introduction and Appendix by John Kirkup

Bath, Kingsmead Press, 1978 (facsimile, first thus)/ 1617.

Small quarto, xxxiv, [xxvi], 348, [14] ('The Table') pages with a map, 2 frontispieces plus 6 pages of plates.

Papered boards slightly marked, sunned and rubbed; a few trifling signs of handling; an excellent copy with the lightly creased dustwrapper with the rear panel lightly tanned.

With the ownership signature of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf, this first reprinting since the seventeeth century is enlarged by the introductory essay (with biographical outline), an appendix, a map and plates.

Item #120352

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