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The First Museum of Surgical Instruments.


SOLDO, Mauro / RONDINELLI, Ippolito. Descrizione degl instrumenti, delle macchine, e delle suppellettili Raccolte ad Uso Chirurgico e Medico dal P.Don Ippolito Rondinelli Ferrarese. Faenza, 1766.

Rare, first and only edition of this illustrated catalogue of the first museum devoted to medical and surgical instruments, founded by Father Ippolito Rondinelli in Ravenna.
$12,500





From Dry Cleaning To Hardening Knife Blades: An Elizabethan Manual


[BOOK OF SECRETS] [MASCALL, Leonard.]. A profitable booke declaring dyvers approoved remedies, to take out spottes and staines, in Silkes, Velvets, Linnen and Woollen Clothes. London, Thomas Purfoote, 1588.

Rare early edition of this 16th-century English book of secrets, an augmented translation of an untraced Dutch text.
$20,000





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