Compendio di tutta la cirugia, per Pietro et Lodouico Rostini medici, estratto da tutti coloro, che di essa hanno scritto. Et hora dall'Eccell. D. & Caualiero M. Leonardo Fiorauanti Bolognese ampliato di bellissimi discorsi: & aggiuntoui un nuouo Trattato a' professori di tal'arte molto utile, & necessario. Con la Tauola copiosissima delle cose piu notabili, & con li dissegni de gli istromenti che piu si conuengono à Cirugici. Nuouamente ristampato, & con ogni diligenza corretto

12mo (149x100 mm). 8, [16], 175, [1] blank leaves. Collation: a-c⁸, A-Y⁸. Ll. Q8 and Y8 are blank. With the printer's woodcut device on the title page representing the ‘Abondantia', a woman holding a cornucopia with the left hand and  the inscription ‘Abundantia' with the right. Contemporary vellum over boards, inked title along the spine (slightly stained, lacking the front flyleaf, traces of ties). With several woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, initials and 8 full-page illustrations that represent the most useful surgical instruments. On the front pastedown manuscript ownership entries: “Questo libro di me Eugenio Melo” (repeated on title page and back pastedown) and “Barber de Con.o comprato di me Ventura di Ventura liberaio”. Tear to l. 172, loss of text on ll. 172 v. and 173 r. probably due to the fact that the two leaves were glued together. All in all a good, genuine copy.
Fourth edition, a reprint of the second 1561 enlarged edition, edited by Borgaruccio Borgarucci (the first edition was published at Venice in 1557 by Lodovico Avanzi & Fratelli), of this important surgery treatise composed by two of the most famous sixteenth-century physicians and surgeons Pietro and Ludovico Rostini (born in Parlbonio, in the province of Brescia), who collected the knowledge and practice of surgery of the time, as shown in the text and illustrations of this volume.
This edition incudes (at l. R1) the additional part by Ludovico Fioravanti entitled Discorsi […] Sopra la cirugia, con la dichiaratione di molte cose necessarie da sapere, non più scritte in modo tale. Fioravanti was a controversial figure in the Italian medical world of the 16th century. He was a self-taught doctor and travelled throughout the Italian peninsula: starting from Sicily, ca. 1548, he visited Naples, Rome, Venice, Milan and Bologna. Fioravanti was also an alchemist, and he is frequently considered as one of the main Paracelsists in Italy. In 1550 he was appointed by don Pietro di Toledo as ‘proto-doctor' of the imperial Spanish army, mostly for his innovative medical techniques.