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SCARPA, Antonio (1747-1832). Anatomicarum annotationum liber primus. De nervorum gangliis, et plexubus. Modena: Heirs of Barthomomaei Soliani, 1779.
4o (253 x 196 mm). Two engraved plates, one folding. (Some pale foxing, pale staining to first few leaves at beginning and end, tiniest wormtracks at inner margin extremes at beginning and end.) Contemporary vellum (stain on lower cover). Provenance: Adelaide Tacoa? (bookplate, partially removed).
FIRST EDITION of one of Scarpa's earliest works on neurology. According to Castoglioni, this work "laid a deserved basis for his wide fame." In it, he extends not only the observations of Meckel and Zinn, but corrected and confirmed them with anatomical experiments and gave an exact description of the ganglia and the plexus. Scarpa was a pupil of Morgagni and became professor of anatomy at Modena and later at Pavia. Waller 8533.
4o (253 x 196 mm). Two engraved plates, one folding. (Some pale foxing, pale staining to first few leaves at beginning and end, tiniest wormtracks at inner margin extremes at beginning and end.) Contemporary vellum (stain on lower cover). Provenance: Adelaide Tacoa? (bookplate, partially removed).
FIRST EDITION of one of Scarpa's earliest works on neurology. According to Castoglioni, this work "laid a deserved basis for his wide fame." In it, he extends not only the observations of Meckel and Zinn, but corrected and confirmed them with anatomical experiments and gave an exact description of the ganglia and the plexus. Scarpa was a pupil of Morgagni and became professor of anatomy at Modena and later at Pavia. Waller 8533.