This is the first French edition of the most important work by Italian surgeon Giovanni Ambrogio Bertrandi, translated by M. Solier de la Romillais and published in Paris in 1769. It was a popular and important surgical textbook of its time and was long considered a reference work for aspiring surgeons. It deals with the fundamentals of surgery, based on the mechanics of human organs and established theory and practice. Title: Traité des opérations de chirurgie (Treatise on Surgical Operations). Author: Ambroise Bertrandi (Giovanni Ambrogio Maria Bertrandi, 1723–1765), surgeon to the King of Sardinia and professor at the University of Turin. Translator: M. Solier de la Romillais, Doctor of Medicine from Reims and Paris. Paris, P. Fr. Didot, le jeune, 1769 illustrated with four folded copperplate engravings showing surgical instruments. 27 pp., 2 leaves, 581 pp. Contemporary leather binding with gilt lettering and floral decoration Size 20 x 13 cm Condition: wormholes in the spine, pages slightly browned and partially worm-eaten, 4 pages with tears at the edges