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SCARPA, Antonio (1752-1832). Tabulae neurologicae ad illustrandam historiam anatomicam cardiacorum nervorum, noni nervorum cerebri... Pavia: B. Comini, 1794.
Chancery broadsheets (602 x 452 mm). 14 engraved plates including 7 outline plates (scattered light foxing.) Later green half vellum and marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION. "SCARPA'S ANATOMIC MASTERPIECE, the product of twenty years of research on the nerves. The seven life-size plates illustrate the human glossopharyngeal, vagus and hypoglossal nerves, which had never before been correctly shown. Scarpa was also the first to delineate correctly the nerves of the heart, and showed that the terminal ramifications of the cardiac nerves are directly connected to cardiac muscular fibers" (Norman). Choulant p. 299; Garrsion-Morton 1253; Heirs of Hippocrates 1105; Waller 8545; Norman 1897.
Chancery broadsheets (602 x 452 mm). 14 engraved plates including 7 outline plates (scattered light foxing.) Later green half vellum and marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION. "SCARPA'S ANATOMIC MASTERPIECE, the product of twenty years of research on the nerves. The seven life-size plates illustrate the human glossopharyngeal, vagus and hypoglossal nerves, which had never before been correctly shown. Scarpa was also the first to delineate correctly the nerves of the heart, and showed that the terminal ramifications of the cardiac nerves are directly connected to cardiac muscular fibers" (Norman). Choulant p. 299; Garrsion-Morton 1253; Heirs of Hippocrates 1105; Waller 8545; Norman 1897.