Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[CHIARUGI, VINCENZO.] Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio. Engraved frontispiece and 9 folding plates. lxxviii [i. e., lxxx], [2], 416 pages, [44] leaves, including engraved folding table ("Prospetto generale di tutti gl'Impieghi"), extended folding letterpress table ("Ristretto Generale dei Consumi d'un Mese"), and fold-down flap on 4/2v and 4/3r, but with the sheets of gatherings 2 through 7 in the end matter bound along left edge instead of being folded in center. 4to, 266x196 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked with morocco; scattered marginal foxing and fingersoiling, faint dampstain in lower outer corner of text leaves in middle of volume and tables at end, repaired clean tear in a few plates. Bookplate of the Library of the Wellcome Institute on front free endpaper, their release stamp on title verso. sold as is. Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789

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first edition of the combined regulations for the Spedale di Santa Maria Nuova and Spedale di Bonifazio in Florence. Pages 294-376 contain the first appearance of Chiarugi's groundbreaking guidelines for the Bonifazio insane asylum, promoting the humane treatment of the mentally ill. Garrison-Morton 4920.2; Norman 474.