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Objektsbeskrivning PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. (8). MORGAGNI, JOHANN BAPTISTA. Von dem Sitze und den Ursachen der Krankheiten, welche durch die Anatomie sind erforscht worden. Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt von Georg Heinrich Königsdörfer (und Johann Gotthelf Herrmann). I-V (in 8 volumes). Altenburg (in der Richterischen Buchhandlung) 1771-76. 8:o. (180x110 mm.). 1 engraved and 4 woodcut title vignettes. Contemporary paper bindings, worn, manuscript spine titles, red edges. Minor foxing. Vol. III:3 partly dampstained in outer margin. Stamp on titles of "Medic. chirurg. Bibliothek Altenburg". Vol. I with pasted catalogue cut and portrait at inside of upper board. 8 volumes. First German edition. First edition published in Venice 1761. "By this great work, one of the most important in the history of medicine, Morgagani was the true founder of modern pathological anatomy. [...] M. gave the first descriptions of several pathological conditions". (Garrison/M. 2276).