On Monsters and Marvels.
University Of Chicago Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 224pp. Illustrated. Laid in is "advance promotion copy", slip. Sun-faded spine to dust jacket. "A marvelous encyclopedia of curioosities - monstrous human and animal births, bizarre beasts, natural phenomena. " Surgeon and scientist, Pare, was also philosopher, critis, historian, storyteller, philologist, moralist..... More