Nov 03, 2006 - Sale 2092

Sale 2092 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PASCOLI, ALESSANDRO; and BAGLIVI, GIORGIO. Il Corpo-Umano; o, Breve Storia dove con Nuovo Metodo si descrivono in Compendio Tutti gli Organi suoi, e i loro Principali Ufizj [with Tractatus de fibra motrice, et morbosa. 20 engraved anatomical plates. [16], 406, [2]; 55 pages, including engraved allegorical frontispiece and portrait of Pascoli. 4to, contemporary panelled vellum; scattered marginal foxing, occasional minor marginal soiling or stains, small repair in blank lower margin of C4; cloth slipcase with morocco lettering piece. Venice: Andrea Poletti, 1727

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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.