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[CHIARUGI, VINCENZO.] Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio. Engraved frontispiece and 9 folding plates. lxxviii, [2], 416, [84] pages, including folding table and one double-page table with fold-out extension. 4to, modern buckram with morocco lettering piece, covers rubbed; small repair at top of frontispiece slightly affecting border, light marginal dampstaining in second half of volume not affecting plates. Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789
first edition of the combined regulations for the Spedale di Santa Maria Nuova and Spedale di Bonifazio in Florence. Pages 294-376 contain the first appearance of Chiarugi's groundbreaking guidelines for the Bonifazio insane asylum, promoting the humane treatment of the mentally ill. Garrison-Morton 4920.2; Norman 474.
