[Anatomy] Pascoli, Alessandro: The human body, or a brief history, where with a new method all its organs and their principal functions are described in summary... G. Costantini & A. Poletti, in Perugia & Venice 1700

Format in-4°, mm. 215x155, pp. (20), 339, LXXXVIII, 58. Copy missing Plate XI and leaves E2, E3 (description of plate XI). Contemporary full parchment binding with handwritten title on the spine. Marginal tears with loss of text on the leaf with dedication to Clement XI and on leaf C1. Restoration on Plate 1 (crumpled) and on leaf a2 with part of the text reintegrated by hand. Sporadic foxing.

Engraving frontispiece and 1 portrait of the Author drawn by Giuseppe Laudati and engraved by Girolamo Frezza. 19 anatomical plates engraved outside the text. Woodcut headpieces, initials and endpieces. Work of Alessandro Pascoli (1669-1757), an Italian anatomist, who taught in Rome and Perugia. He gave anatomical demonstrations by dissecting cadavers, like his colleague and competitor Andrea Vesalio. Finally, with its own frontispiece, a 58-page text by the anatomist Giorgio Baglivi (1668-1707): Georgii Baglivi ... De fibra motrice, et morbosa; nec non De experimentis, ac morbis salivae, bilis, & sanguinis... Perusiae, apud Costantinum anno Jubilei, 1700.