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SCARPA, ANTONIO.
Sull’Aneurisma. Riflessioni ed Osservazioni Anatomico-
Chirurgiche.
15 engraved plates after drawings by Scarpa, including 6 outline duplicates.
[4], iv, 114 pages. Broadsheet, 640x495 mm, contemporary
1
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4
mottled sheep, spine worn
with shelf label, chipped at top, bottom compartment damaged; each leaf tipped to stub
with split between leaves 48 and 49, foxing along top and bottom edges, title soiled with
horizontal crease, light dampstain on plates, minor repair on verso of plate 1, blank lower
outer corner off plate 2, marginal repair on plate 7/2 slightly affecting rule border, worm-
hole in lower inner corner of last 2 plates, repaired clean tear in blank lower margin of last
plate; cloth folding case. Bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries
with release stamps.
Pavia: Tipografia Bolzani, 1804
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION
.
“Scarpa distinguished true from false aneurysms. He introduced the concept of
arteriosclerosis”—Garrison-Morton 2975.
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SEILER, BURKHARD WILHELM.
Beobachtungen ursprünglicher Bildung-
sfehler und gänzlichen Mangels der Augen.
Engraved plate. [8], 64, [2] pages. Folio,
469x309 mm, original boards, soiled and worn, backstrip imperfect; minor spotting on
plate, contents otherwise clean.
Dresden: in der Walther’schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1833
[200/300]
FIRST EDITION
of an atlas of ocular malformations and abnormalities, “the first monograph on
the subject”—Becker 338.
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