HESSELBACH, Adam Kaspar.

Large folio, pp. x, 79, and 20 life-size lithographed plates, one figure partly coloured. Contemporary (original?) half cloth and marbled sides. First two leaves re-guarded in inner margin, some very minor foxing, but an excellent copy.

SOLE EDITION of this fine atlas of hernia, originally published in 22 fascicules. The plates were drawn and lithographed in Würzburg by S. Hesselbach, probably a relation. Adam Hesselbach was born and worked in Würzburg, and followed his father Franz Kaspar Hesselbach’s profession as a surgeon. Both specialised in the operation for hernia, the father being remembered eponymously by “Hesselbach’s hernia” and “triangle”. Rare; not in Waller, Wellcome, etc. This copy has the publisher’s prospectus and subscription invitation (1 leaf, quarto) bound in at the end.