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PASCOLI, ALESSANDRO. Il Corpo-Umano; o, Breve Storia dove con Nuovo Metodo si descrivono in Compendio tutti gli Organi suoi, e i loro Principali Ufizj [with Giorgio Baglivi, Tractatus de fibra motrice, et morbosa]. 20 engraved anatomical plates. [10], 255, [1]; 52 pages, including engraved allegorical frontispiece. 4to, 232x172 mm, contemporary vellum boards, worn; occasional browning, dark stain in lower margins at beginning and end, scattered marginal foxing and minor stains elsewhere, rear free endpaper lacking. Venice: Andrea Poletti, 1750
Standard Italian anatomy textbook of the period first published in 1700, reprinting as an appendix Baglivi's Tractatus de fibra motrice, one of the fundamental works in the history of muscle physiology, in which he first distinguished between smooth and striated muscle.
