Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 398
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
SCARPA, ANTONIO. Engravings of the Cardiac Nerves, the Nerves of the Ninth Pair, the Glosso-Phraryngeal, and the Pharyngeal Branch of the Pneumo-Gastric; copied from the "Tabulae Neurologicae." . . . Third Edition. 30 engraved plates by Edward Mitchell after Scarpa, partly hand-colored. 4to, modern 1/4 calf, spine faded; modern owner's notes in ink and pencil on title, several text leaves browned, plates generally clean. Edinburgh, 1832

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"Scarpa's greatest work . . . it includes the first proper delineation of the glosspharyngeal, vagus, hypoglossal, and cardiac nerves, and the first demonstration of cardiac innervation"--Garrison-Morton 1253 (1794 original edition in Latin).