The copy of the first edition of Paré’s works in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, from which the images of the text are taken, lacks its title page. The image of the title page below is from the copy in the Alfred Taubman Medical Library at the University of Michigan and is shown here by permission of that library.

Since it was his new method of treating gunshot wounds that made his international reputation, it is not surprising that the first English translation of any of Paré’s works was a version of his treatise on this subject translated by Walter Hammond, an English surgeon. Since Hammond mentions Paré’s ‘booke of voyages and travels’ which first appeared in the 1585 edition of the Oeuvres it is clear that the translation was made from one of the French editions of the work published between 1585 and 1614. The ‘man of wounds’ on the title page does not appear in any of Paré’s own works but versions of it appear in other works of the period on surgery. Hammond’s translation is now exceedingly rare; only two copies are known and one of these is imperfect. The image below is from the copy in the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford with whose permission it is shown here.