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MASCAGNI, PAOLO. 1755-1815. Anatomia Universale. Florence: 1833. image 1
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MASCAGNI, PAOLO. 1755-1815.
Anatomia Universale. Florence: 1833.

5 November 2020, 10:00 PST
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MASCAGNI, PAOLO. 1755-1815.

Anatomia Universale. Florence: 1833.
2 volumes, comprising text and plate volumes. Folio (454 x 310 mm). Letterpress title to text volume, plate volume with 75 engraved anatomical plates, each in colored and uncolored outline states. Some scattered spotting, mostly to margins. Contemporary Italian red half morocco, spines labeled in gilt, joints and extremities very lightly rubbed.

FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN AND FIRST "SMALL-FORMAT" EDITION. The smaller format edition, itself a generous folio, was prepared by the original artist/engraver of the elephant folio edition Serantoni, who realized that the life-size version, the labor of Mascagni's entire career, would be seen and owned by only a few. The original 88 plates were increased to 150 plates so that certain details could be separated out, and in some cases, this resulted in a clearer presentation of the subject matter than in the large format edition. A fine wide-margined set of Mascagni's important work on the anatomy of the human body. The work is rare on the auction market with just 4 copies in the last 20 years. Welcome IV, 73; Garrison-Morton 1104.

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