Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 374

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SCARPA, ANTONIO. Sull'Aneurisma. Riflessioni ed Osservazioni Anatomico-Chirurgiche. 15 engraved plates after drawings by Scarpa, including 6 outline duplicates. [4], iv, 114 pages. Broadsheet, 640x495 mm, contemporary 1/4 mottled sheep, spine worn with shelf label, chipped at top, bottom compartment damaged; each leaf tipped to stub with split between leaves 48 and 49, foxing along top and bottom edges, title soiled with horizontal crease, light dampstain on plates, minor repair on verso of plate 1, blank lower outer corner off plate 2, marginal repair on plate 7/2 slightly affecting rule border, wormhole in lower inner corner of last 2 plates, repaired clean tear in blank lower margin of last plate; cloth folding case. Bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries with release stamps. Pavia: Tipografia Bolzani, 1804

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first edition. "Scarpa distinguished true from false aneurysms. He introduced the concept of arteriosclerosis"--Garrison-Morton 2975.