Giovanni Maria LANCISI
Opera varia In Unum Congesta, et in duos tomos distributa[Various Works Collected into One, and Divided into Two Volumes]
Sanctes Pecori|Venice 1739|23.3 x 36 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
Illustrated edition with 2 folding maps and 10 engraved plates outside the text (see Garrison & Morton 71; DSB 613-614).
Contemporary full marbled calf binding, spine with six raised bands decorated with double black panels stamped with blind typographic motifs, burgundy shagreen title label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, red edges.
Some restoration to the binding, spine rebacked; evidence of waterstaining to the upper margins of the leaves in the second volume.
Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654–1720), an Italian physician trained at the University of Rome, produced significant work on mosquitoes and malaria (he introduced the term), as well as on cardiovascular d
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