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Lot 2079
MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. 1682-1771.
11 June 2008, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$3,000 - US$5,000
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Find your local specialistMORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. 1682-1771.
De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis.... Venice: Remondini, 1761. 2 volumes bound in 1. Half-title. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Jean Renard. Folio (373 x 230 mm). Period full calf, spine gilt in compartments. Lacking Oo6 (final blank in vol 1?), small marginal hole in half-title and frontispiece, front free endpaper trimmed binding extremities and joints a little rubbed and dry.
First edition of "one of the most important works in the history of medicine" (Lilly). Second issue, with the title-page printed in black. "The true foundation of modern pathologic anatomy ... while others, like Benivieni, Vesalius, Bonetus, may have looked at diseased viscera in the dead body with some intelligence, it was by the vast scope of his work and his many descriptions of new forms of disease that Morgagni made pathology a genuine branch of modern science" (G&M). He treats of approximately 700 case histories and post-mortems, drawn from his own experience and that of his immediate predecessors. "Morgagni's most outstanding contribution to special pathology was his exposition of lesions of the vascular system, particularly aneurisms, whose connection with syphilis he recognized; he also recorded cases of mitral stenosis and heart block (Stoke-Adams syndrome), and described a case of angina pectoris that he observed in 1707. He was the first to expound clearly the clinical features of lobar pneumonia with consolidation of the lung; he also described acute yellow atrophy of the liver and tuberculosis of the kidney" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 2276; Lilly 125; PMM 206; Osler 1178; Norman 1547.
Provenance: Inkstamp and shelf label of Dr. Gabriel Pouchet on half-title; ownership signature "Perenotti"; two modern bookplates, one of Alberti G. Nicholls.
See illustration.
First edition of "one of the most important works in the history of medicine" (Lilly). Second issue, with the title-page printed in black. "The true foundation of modern pathologic anatomy ... while others, like Benivieni, Vesalius, Bonetus, may have looked at diseased viscera in the dead body with some intelligence, it was by the vast scope of his work and his many descriptions of new forms of disease that Morgagni made pathology a genuine branch of modern science" (G&M). He treats of approximately 700 case histories and post-mortems, drawn from his own experience and that of his immediate predecessors. "Morgagni's most outstanding contribution to special pathology was his exposition of lesions of the vascular system, particularly aneurisms, whose connection with syphilis he recognized; he also recorded cases of mitral stenosis and heart block (Stoke-Adams syndrome), and described a case of angina pectoris that he observed in 1707. He was the first to expound clearly the clinical features of lobar pneumonia with consolidation of the lung; he also described acute yellow atrophy of the liver and tuberculosis of the kidney" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 2276; Lilly 125; PMM 206; Osler 1178; Norman 1547.
Provenance: Inkstamp and shelf label of Dr. Gabriel Pouchet on half-title; ownership signature "Perenotti"; two modern bookplates, one of Alberti G. Nicholls.
See illustration.