May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[Medicine & Science] Lancisi, Giovanni Maria (1654-1720)
De Motu Cordis et Aneurysmatibus Opus Posthumum.

Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728.

First edition, illustrated with engraved portrait of the author facing the title page, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette; one text engraving, and seven full-page plates bound after the text; errata present, leaf A2 misbound after B2, but present; bound in full contemporary parchment, worn, with some minor stains and worming to interior, 13 1/2 x 9 in.

Lancisi's posthumously published treatise on the human heart focused on understanding cardiovascular diseases.

Garrison-Morton 2973; Norman 1275; Osler 3152; Wellcome III, p 441.