Ambroise Pare translated with an introduction and notes by Janis Pallister.

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. near fine/very good. Item #52727
ISBN: 9780226645629

"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 and demonologists.

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