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SANDIFORT, Eduard.

Observationes anatomico-pathologicae.

Leiden: Pieter van der Eyk and Daniel Vygh, 1777.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #004184

Printed 1777-1781. Four parts in one volume. 4to (253 x 208 mm). [12], 151 [1]; [4], 164; [4], 170; [4], 178, [2] pp., including general title, half-title to each part, separate titles to parts II-IV, woodcut tailpieces and 36 engraved plates. Bound in fine contemporary mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt-decorated in compartments, red morocco lettering piece to 2nd compartment, boards and board-edges with gilt-tooled border, marbled endpapers, red-dyed edges (slight wear to joints, corners bumped, small chipping of lower right corner of morocco label). Test and plates crisp and clean throughout with very light even browning and a few faint marginal dampstains in places; the first half-title and general title creased towards lower corner. Provenance: Dr. Johannes Antonius James Barge (Dutch physician, 1884-1952, bookplate to front-pastedown). ----

FIRST EDITION. Sandifort's book is notable for its exquisite plates, several of which depict cardiac anatomy and pathology. Cruveilhier called Sandifort the "father of pathologic iconography."
Sandifort was the pupil of Albinus as well as his successor to the chair of anatomy and surgery at the University of Leiden. his "beautifully illustrated work on pathological anatomy included records of ulcerative aortic endocarditis, renal calculi, herniae, bony ankyloses, and congenital abnormalities. his work is comparable with that of Morgagni" (GMN).
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