The workes of that famous chyrurgian, Mr. Iohn Banester : in five bookes : the contents whereof, follow in the next page.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banister, John, 1533-1610.

Contributor:

Harper, Thomas, -1656, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1633

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Surgery--Early works to 1800.

Surgery.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages; 16 unnumbered pages, 223 pages, 17 unnumbered pages; 4 unnumbered pages, 57 pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 16 unnumbered pages, 166 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Workes of that famous chyrurgian, Mr. John Banester

Antidotary chyrurgicall

Storehouse of physicall and philosophicall secrets

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Thomas Harper, MDCXXXIII [1633]

Notes:

With an additional general title page giving the contents.

The last leaf is blank.

The first section (on tumors, wounds, ulcers, fractures and luxations) is reprinted from Banister's translation of sections of Johann Jacob Wecker's "Medicinae utriusque syntaxes", published in 1585 as "A compendious chyrurgerie". Cf. ESTC.

"An antidotary chyrurgicall", "A storehouse of physicall and philosophicall secrets", and "A treatise of chirurgerie" each has separately dated title page, pagination and register. "A storehouse", a later edition of "The true and perfect order to distill oyles out of al maner of spices" erroneously attributed to Paracelsus, was also issued separately (STC 19182.5). "A treatise of chirurgerie" was also issued separately (STC 1361). Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: A-V⁸ (V8 blank), ²A-Q⁸ (A8 blank), ³A-D⁸ (D8 blank), ⁴A-L⁸ M⁴ (M4 blank).

Title page with illustrated woodcut border. Added t.p. within woodcut border; woodcut initials and head-pieces.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Identified as STC 1701:10 on UMI microfilm.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Library copy has "A Treatise of chirurgerie" bound after the first part; with the following pagination: [16], 296, [8]; [16], 166, [2]; [16], 223, [17]; [4],57, [3] p.; and signatures: A-V⁸ (V8 blank), ²A-L⁸ M⁴ (M4 blank), ³A-Q⁸ (A8 blank), ⁴A-D⁸ (D8 blank).

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 1357

ESTC S100785

Contains:

Wecker, Johann Jacob, 1528-1586. Medicinae utriusque syntaxes. English. Selections.

Banister, John, 1540-1610. Treatise of chirurgerie.

True and perfect order to distill oyles out of al maner of spices.

OCLC:

79430642