"Gerssdorff performed nearly 200 amputations. He opposed Pare's abandonment of boiling oil for cauterization of wounds. The book contains some instructive pictures on early surgical procedures and includes the first picture ever made of an amputation." This is one of the copies that was bound in half leather and French marbleized paper athe bindery on Heinrich Kock, Tubingen, West Germany, and are numbered in arabic numerals 1-2300.