Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 449

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LANCISI, GIOVANNI MARIA. De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus opus posthumum. 8 engraved plates. [4], xxviii, 219 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, spine darkened and discolored, worn at top and bottom; contents heavily browned, light dampstaining in upper margins in second half of volume. Bookplate of Irving Beck, M.D. (sale at Swann, 22 January 1976, lot 267). Naples: Felix-Carolus Musca, 1738

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Work on cardiac pathology first published in 1728 as a continuation of Lancisi's 1707 De subitaneis mortibus. Garrison-Morton 2973; Norman 1275 (both citing original edition).