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FONTANA, FELICE. Treatise on the Venom of the Viper;on the American Poisons; and on the Cherry Laurel, and Some Other Vegetable Poisons. 10 folding engraved plates. [2], xix, [1], 409, [1], xiv; [2], ii, [2], 395, [1], xi, [i. e., xiv], xxii pages, including errata leaf; lacking first leaf (half-title or initial blank?) in each volume. 2 volumes. 8vo, 212x127 mm, contemporary tree sheep with leather lettering pieces, quite worn overall, spine ends chipped, front joints cracked or starting, cords intact; contents toned with intermittent heavy foxing or browning, mainly in Volume 1, plates lightly offset. 19th-century owners' bookplates, stamps, and signatures. London: John Cuthell, 1795
Second edition of the 1787 translation of Fontana's toxicological treatise, "the starting point of modern investigations of serpent venoms" (Garrison-Morton), also containing Fontana's work on the anatomy of nerves and nerve regeneration, and on the ciliary canal of the eye. DSB V, 56; Garrison-Morton 2103 (1767 original edition in Italian).
