Vigo, Pratica universale in cirugia, Venice, Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for Federico Torresano, 1550 (1549), contemporary limp vellum

Vigo, Giovanni de. Pratica universale in cirugia de l'eccellente m. Giovanni Di Vigo. Et il dotto compendio di Mariano suo discepolo. Opere utilissime et necessarie novamente tradotte per m. Lorenzo Chrisaorio con le sue tavole in fine. Venice: Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for Federico Torresano, 1550 (1549)

Giovanni de Vigo achieved fame through his Practica, first published in Rome in 1514. It was among the first medical works to deal with two of the great problems of Renaissance surgery: epidemic syphilis and wounds from firearms. The present edition is illustrated with nine woodcuts depicting surgical scenes.

4to (211 x 156 mm). Roman type, 51 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ A-Z⁸ AA-II⁸ KK⁶: 266 leaves. Device on title-page, nine woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials. (Title torn and stained, intermittent soiling, paper flaw on lower corner of Z4, edges occasionally creased.)

binding: Contemporary limp vellum (214 x 158 mm), traces of two pairs of chamois ties, 14^th (?) century manuscript binder's waste. (Stained and worn, particularly at head and at bands, piece torn from edge of upper cover.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, illegible five-line inscription on binding — unidentified owner(s), inscriptions "Apo ex 129 per legare (?) on endpaper — unidentified owner, inscription of St. Joseph Convent 1643 at Plenipodium(?) — E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Catalogue 30 (London 1933), item 109; List 19 (London [1935], item 244) — Heneage Wynne Finch (1871-1939), purchase inscription on flyleaf. acquisition: Purchased from Pickering & Chatto, London, 1982. references: Edit16 42393; USTC 825232; Cataldi Palau 178 (“edizione che no ho visto”)