Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CLARIFYING A POINT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF ANATOMICAL DISCOVERIES SCARPA, ANTONIO. Autograph Letter Signed, "Ant. Scarpa," to anatomist Eduard Sandifort, in Latin and English, stating that he is unable to send the second volume of his work, Anatomicarum annotationum, complaining that John Hunter fails to acknowledge in his Observ[ations] on Certain Parts of the Animal Economy that Scarpa discovered two years before certain facts about the communication of areas in the cranium via the Eustachian tubes, and mentioning Hunter's Treatise on the Venereal Disease. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; folds. Pavia, 4 August 1787