VALSALVA, ANTONIO MARIA. Opera hoc est tractatus de aure humana editione hac quarta accuratissime descriptus. Edited by Giovanni Battista Morgagni. Venice: Francesco Pitteri, 1740. Title-page in first volume printed in red and black, small woodcut vignettes on title-pages, engraved frontispiece, 13 engraved folding plates. 2 vols., 4to, contemporary speckled sheep, spines richly gilt, some wear at corners, covers skinned in a few places; lacking subtitle of vol. I (?), errata leaf repaired at end of vol. I. First collected edition of Valsalva's works, edited by his student Morgagni. It includes a reprint of his important treatise on theanatomy and physiology of the human ear, De aure humani tractatus. The preface by Morgagni constitutes the first and most important biography of Valsalva. A FINE SET. Garrison-Morton 803; Norman 2126. Sold not subject to return. (2)