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The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey :

Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590, Spiegel, Adriaan van de, 1578-1625. Aggeiologia : or, A description of the vessels in the body of man · 1649 · London : Printed by Richard Cotes, and Willi: Du-gard, and are to be sold by John Clarke · 336 pictures

Ambroise Paré's collected surgical works, published in London in 1649 by Richard Cotes and William Dugard, with the anatomical treatise of Adriaan van de Spiegel, aimed at surgeons and medical readers. The pictures are crisp black-and-white woodcuts of surgical instruments and anatomical forms, drawn with dense parallel hatching and labelled with letters, offering a designer clean hatched shading and precise engraved outlines for instrument-style graphics.

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