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MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. De sedibus, et causis morborum. Engraved portrait of the author. xcvi, 298; 452 pages, including half-title. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 366x262 mm, contemporary 1/2 vellum with shelf number stamped in black on spine, cover edges worn, outer corners of front cover cracked; light to moderate foxing, scattered marginalia; cloth folding case. Signatures of Johann Gotthelf Herrmann dated 1766 and W. Baum dated 1823; bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries with release stamps, Crerar Library stamp on title verso showing through on recto, and on verso of portrait. Venice: Typographia Remondiniana, 1761
first edition. "Morgagni was the first to make a complete and systematic correlation between the symptoms of a particular disease and the anatomical lesions found on post-mortem examination . . . His treatise consisted of approximately 700 case histories and post-mortems, drawn from his own sixty years of experience and from the work of his immediate predecessors"--Norman 1547. Garrison-Morton 2276, 2734, 2885; Printing and the Mind of Man 206.
