SCARPA Antonio. Saggio di osservazioni e d'esperienze sulle principali malattie degli occhi. Pavia, Comino, 1801. Large 4to, mm. 320 x 220.original publisher’s paperback without spine. Pp. [2], XI, 278, [2], with 3 copper plates out text. Fresh specimen, but without Scarpa’s portrait, however present only in a few specimens.
First edition of this famous ophthalmology treatise, which had the praise of the entire scientific world of the period. "This beautifully illustrated work was the first textbook on the topic to be published in the Italian language." [Garrison-Morton, 5835].. "Ce qu'il a dit de la fistule lacrymale, de la phlogose, des ulcères de la cornée, de l'amaurose était neuf alors, et presque toutes ses idées ont passé dans l'enseignement ou dans la pratique" [Biogr. gén.]. The Paris, 1801, and Venice editions, 1802, unduly bear the word "first edition", while they are behind this. Beautiful anatomical plates. Hirsch, V/45-6; Walleriana, n. 8543 [es. senza ritratto]. Albert, Norton, Hurtes, Source bouk of Ofthalmology, n. 2021: “The first systematic ophtalmologic textbiook in Italian”.
SCARPA Antonio. Saggio di osservazioni e d'esperienze sulle principali malattie degli occhi. Pavia, Comino, 1801. Large 4to, mm. 320 x 220.original publisher’s paperback without spine. Pp. [2], XI, 278, [2], with 3 copper plates out text. Fresh specimen, but without Scarpa’s portrait, however present only in a few specimens.
First edition of this famous ophthalmology treatise, which had the praise of the entire scientific world of the period. "This beautifully illustrated work was the first textbook on the topic to be published in the Italian language." [Garrison-Morton, 5835].. "Ce qu'il a dit de la fistule lacrymale, de la phlogose, des ulcères de la cornée, de l'amaurose était neuf alors, et presque toutes ses idées ont passé dans l'enseignement ou dans la pratique" [Biogr. gén.]. The Paris, 1801, and Venice editions, 1802, unduly bear the word "first edition", while they are behind this. Beautiful anatomical plates. Hirsch, V/45-6; Walleriana, n. 8543 [es. senza ritratto]. Albert, Norton, Hurtes, Source bouk of Ofthalmology, n. 2021: “The first systematic ophtalmologic textbiook in Italian”.
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