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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], 78 [i. e., 278], [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. Printed on heavy paper. 4to, 303x215 mm, modern 1/4 leather; occasional toning or browning, light dampstaining along bottom edges at beginning and end marginally affecting plates, scattered stains elsewhere, marginal foxing on engraved matter. 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.
