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INGRASSIA, Giovanni Filippo (1510-1580). Informatione del Pestifero e Contagioso Morbo. Palermo: Giovanni Matteo Mayda, 1576.
4° (207 x 141mm.). Title with woodcut device and partial border illustrating three remedies for the plague (repeated on QQ6), engraved frontispiece showing the author presenting his book to Philip II, two engraved illustrations, printed as plates with rectos blank, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (Leaf +4 remargined at foot, not affecting engraving on verso, occasional staining, mainly marginal.) Old mottled vellum (front joint and upper section of back joint cracked). Provenance: Jesuits, Paris (inscription on title); J. G. Mazziotti Salema Garço (armorial bookplate and blindstamp on QQ6).
FIRST EDITION of Ingrassia's work on the plague which afflicted Sicily in 1575 and 1576. Ingrassia, known as the 'Sicilian Hippocrates', successfully controlled an outbreak of malaria at Palermo by draining the marshes and ordering the use of isolation hospitals. His efforts earned him the respect and gratitude of his countrymen, as well as an annual pension of 3,000 gold écus, which he donated to the Dominicans of Palermo, for the decoration of a chapel in which he was buried. The two engravings in this work show the hospital at la Cubba for plague victims, and the drying of linen from the hospital in the grounds of the Duke of Bibona. Adams I-120; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 241; Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 7, pp. 16-17
4° (207 x 141mm.). Title with woodcut device and partial border illustrating three remedies for the plague (repeated on QQ6), engraved frontispiece showing the author presenting his book to Philip II, two engraved illustrations, printed as plates with rectos blank, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (Leaf +4 remargined at foot, not affecting engraving on verso, occasional staining, mainly marginal.) Old mottled vellum (front joint and upper section of back joint cracked). Provenance: Jesuits, Paris (inscription on title); J. G. Mazziotti Salema Garço (armorial bookplate and blindstamp on QQ6).
FIRST EDITION of Ingrassia's work on the plague which afflicted Sicily in 1575 and 1576. Ingrassia, known as the 'Sicilian Hippocrates', successfully controlled an outbreak of malaria at Palermo by draining the marshes and ordering the use of isolation hospitals. His efforts earned him the respect and gratitude of his countrymen, as well as an annual pension of 3,000 gold écus, which he donated to the Dominicans of Palermo, for the decoration of a chapel in which he was buried. The two engravings in this work show the hospital at la Cubba for plague victims, and the drying of linen from the hospital in the grounds of the Duke of Bibona. Adams I-120; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 241; Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 7, pp. 16-17