SANTORINI, Giovanni Domenico (1681-1737). Septemdecim tabulae... Edited by Michael Girardi. Parma: [Giambattista Bodoni for] Regia typographia, 1775.
4o (340 x 255 mm., uncut). 42 engraved folding plates by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and others, including 21 outline key plates. (Some faint dampstaining.) Contemporary boards (edges worn). Provenance: Duplicate E.J.C. (ink stamp on pastedown); Norman F. Haskell (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 16 June 1998, lot 769); from the collection of Dean Edell.
FIRST EDITION. Apart from its importance as an anatomical work, Santorini's Septemdecim tabulae is noteworthy as the only significant medical book printed by Giambattista Bodoni. Choulant pp. 262-264; Garrison-Morton 399.1; Heirs of Hippocrates 788; Norman 1888.
SANTORINI, Giovanni Domenico (1681-1737). Septemdecim tabulae... Edited by Michael Girardi. Parma: [Giambattista Bodoni for] Regia typographia, 1775.
4o (340 x 255 mm., uncut). 42 engraved folding plates by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and others, including 21 outline key plates. (Some faint dampstaining.) Contemporary boards (edges worn). Provenance: Duplicate E.J.C. (ink stamp on pastedown); Norman F. Haskell (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 16 June 1998, lot 769); from the collection of Dean Edell.
FIRST EDITION. Apart from its importance as an anatomical work, Santorini's Septemdecim tabulae is noteworthy as the only significant medical book printed by Giambattista Bodoni. Choulant pp. 262-264; Garrison-Morton 399.1; Heirs of Hippocrates 788; Norman 1888.
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