[Medicine] Genga, Bernardino: Surgical anatomy, that is, anatomical history of the bones and muscles of the human body... In Rome, Nicolo Angelo Tinassi 1672

Format in-8°, mm. 160x110, pp. (24), 455, (1) + 1 copperplate frontispiece. Complete. Contemporary full parchment binding with handwritten titles on the spine. Slight water stain on the edges of the leaves, copy missing the rear flyleaf, front flyleaf discreetly reapplied in old paper. Clear text, with slight foxing and browning on the leaves.


First original edition of 1672, printed in Rome for Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, anatomy manual by the Italian physician and anatomist Bernardino Genga (1620-1690), first edition of one of the first works dedicated entirely to surgical anatomy, Genga was also among the first to speak out in favor of the circulation of the blood, the discovery of which he attributed to Fra Paolo Sarpi. Italian text. With initials and end caps in woodcut nt