De nonnullis cranii ossiumque fracturis eorumque conjunctione itemque de osteocolla de raris herniis quibusdam de partu monstroso naevis & maculis quae in foetibus imprimuntur dissertationes. Quibus accedit alterius monstri historia a ... Matthaeo Bazzani descripta.
Bologna: Ferdinando Pisarri, 1751.
1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Item #003018
8vo (239 x 180 mm). 70 pp. Signatures: A-D8, E4 (-E4). Title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, historiated woodcut initials and tailpieces, 5 engraved plates (4 folding) by Carlo Antonio Pissarri bound at end, without the final blank E4. 20th-century simple card boards, printed paper label to spine, new endpapers. Text very little browned only, occasional minor foxing, title-leaf with cut-out (backed by paper and not affecting text), closed tear to blank fore-margin of leaf D4 (old repair), some foxing. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. Very good copy, collated complete. ----
Wellcome V, p.229; NLM/Blake, p.443; Heirs of Hippocrates 817. - EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION. "Tacconi, surgeon at the hospital of Santa Maria della Morte, taught surgery at the University of Bologna and, after the death of Valsalva, took over the chair of anatomy there. This little-known treatise contains dissertations on cerebral lesions, fractures, hernias, and monsters. The added treatise on teratological lesions is by Matteo Bazzani (1674-1749), a physician and botanist of Bologna." (Heirs). Of great rarity. OCLC records but 4 copies in the US. We could trace only a single auction with another copy of this work: Sotheby's November 1809, Catalogue of the ... Library of Thomas Beddoes, lot 2093. - Visit our website for additional images and information.
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