MOYLE, John (d.1714). Abstractum chirurgiæ marinæ. Or, An Abstract of Sea Chirurgery, London, 1686, 12mo, contemporary calf (copious old annotation). Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing M3028. RARE.

MOYLE, John (d.1714).  Abstractum chirurgiæ marinæ. Or, An Abstract of Sea Chirurgery: Designed for the use of such Chirurgeons who desire to serve at Sea, yet are unacquainted with Sea practice: In order to their restoring to Health of Sick or Wounded Sea-men; But may all fitly serve for most Chirugeons. In Three Compendious Books. London: "Printed by J. Richardson for Tho. Passinger at the 3 Bibles on London-Bridge," 1686. 12mo (140 x 84mm). The title within double rule border (the title cropped with slight loss to ruled borders, short tear and repair to A2 with very slight loss, some other short tears, pp.46 and 47 mis-paginated, stain to pp.67-86, some worming at upper margins towards the end affecting a few letters, lightly browned throughout, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf, new endpapers (some patches rubbed, small hole in spine, old front free endpaper re-margined). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor John Yudkin (modern bookplate; please see the biographical note at the end of lot 308); Robert Hornsby; John Hart, 1742 (old signatures and inscriptions to the front free endpaper); copious old annotation on several pages, evidently based on personal relevant medical experience [see illustrations]. FIRST EDITION. "... [A]fter serving many years at sea in merchant ships and ships of war, and having been 'in most of the sea fights that we have had with any nation in my time', [the author] was superannuated about 1690 ... and applied himself in his old age to writing his surgical experiences for the benefit of younger sea-surgeons. What he wrote was not, he said, collected out of other authors, but was his own practice, the product of real experience" (DNB). Not in Garrison & Morton; Wing (2nd ed.) M3028. RARE.