Author: Tolet, Francois [1647 - 1724]. Lovell, A. - Translator
Title: A TREATISE Of LITHOTOMY: or, Of the Extraction of the Stone out of the Bladder. Written in French by Mr. Tolet, Lithotomist in the Hospital of the Charity in Paris. Translated into English by A. Lovell
Description: London: Printed by H. H. for William Cademan, 1683. First Edition in English (Krivatsy 11909; Wing T-1775). 19th C brown half-calf binding, with marbled paper boards. [8], 185, [7] pp. Pp 66-67 misnumbered 62-63. 6 pages of Cademan publications follow text. Last page blank. Illustrated with 20 inserted copperplate engravings [as required]. 8vo: A^4 B - N^8. F2 mis-signed E2. 6-3/16" x 3-5/8". Modest wear & rubs to binding. Plates quite sharp, though text with some occasional light staining. Withal, a solid VG - VG+ copy. In its day, Tolet's Treatise a well-regarded work on the subject; initially published in 1681, it was soon translated into English and German, with his work still being published in England in 1723, and in Paris as late as 1758. This English version of Tolet's Treatise one of the earliest books in this language on the subject, preceded only by, our research suggests, a 1677 translation of Groenveldt's Lithologia, and Fabricius Hildanus' Lithotomia Vesicæ, published in 1640. Quite rare on the market, especially complete with all 20 plates, with APBC not having any listings, and AE showing the most recent auction of that by Southeby's, in 1981, an imperfect copy lacking 2 plates.

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