Calvo - Chirurgia Teorico-Pratica. Trattato delle Ferite - 1712

A very rare first edition of this important surgical treatise, focusing on the various types of wounds and their treatment, by the Piedmontese physician Paolo Bernardo Calvo.

Chirurgia teorico-pratica di Paolo Bernardo Calvo chirurgo collegiato di Torino. Trattato delle ferite..., Turin, Gio. Battista Guigonio, 1712.

PP.: (XII), 505, (III). COMPLETE.

Copy with leaves in overall good condition, showing the usual signs of use and age, and some damp staining. The title page has its outer margin trimmed. Loss at the outer margin of pp. 213/214, with the loss of very few letters of text.

Contemporary full vellum binding with gilt title on a spine label, showing some stains but overall well preserved. Blank endpapers (the lower part of the rear one is missing), with many handwritten annotations by the former owner.