BELLINI, Lorenzo (1643-1704). Exercitationes anatomicae duae de structura et usu renum ut et de gustus organo novissime deprehenso, ... accedunt ... per Gerardum Blasium, Leiden: J. à Kerkhem, 1726, 8°, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 4 folding engraved plates (marginal tear to M3), later wrappers [Waller 869]; Discorsi di Anatomia, Florence: F. Moücke, 1741-44, 3 volumes, 8°, contemporary paper-backed wrappers, unopened; Opuscula Aliquot, Leiden: S. Luchtmans, 1737, small 4°, 3 folding engraved plates (stamped on verso, title perforated, lacking [?] half title), contemporary half sheep (rubbed). [Blake p. 40; Wellcome II, p. 140] Provenance (all three works): JCL (5)

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BELLINI, Lorenzo (1643-1704). Exercitationes anatomicae duae de structura et usu renum ut et de gustus organo novissime deprehenso, ... accedunt ... per Gerardum Blasium, Leiden: J. à Kerkhem, 1726, 8°, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 4 folding engraved plates (marginal tear to M3), later wrappers [Waller 869]; Discorsi di Anatomia, Florence: F. Moücke, 1741-44, 3 volumes, 8°, contemporary paper-backed wrappers, unopened; Opuscula Aliquot, Leiden: S. Luchtmans, 1737, small 4°, 3 folding engraved plates (stamped on verso, title perforated, lacking [?] half title), contemporary half sheep (rubbed). [Blake p. 40; Wellcome II, p. 140] Provenance (all three works): JCL (5)

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Bellini was a noted Italian anatomist and physiologist and a pupil of Redi and Borelli. His first work, on the kidneys, is his best known. It was first published in 1662 when the author was 19 and showed the kidney not to be solid, but composed of tubules.

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