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SCARPA, ANTONIO. Saggio di Osservazioni e d'Esperienze sulle Principali Malattie degli Occhi. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; 3 folding engraved plates. [2], xi, [1], 278, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. 4to, 307x227 mm, contemporary vellum boards, spine gilt with leather lettering piece; occasional foxing or browning of text, stain and minor foxing in outer margin of plates. Pavia: Baldassare Comino, 1801
first edition. "Scarpa's surgical treatise on the diseases of the eye was the first textbook of ophthalmology published in Italian; it contains the first description of the operation of iridodialysis, and significant chapters on cataract, staphyloma and diseases of the vessels in the eye"--Norman 1899. Becker 327; Garrison-Morton 5835.
