De Sedibus, et Causis Morborum per Anatomen Indagatis

Venice: Ex Typographia Remondiniana, 1761. First. hardcover. Libri Quinque. Dissectiones, et Animadversiones, Nunc Primum Editas Complectuntur Propemodum Innumeras, Medicis, Chirurgis, Anatomicis Profuturas. 2 volumes. The work consists of five books of postmortem findings along with the clinical case notes. Title pages are printed in black with engraved vignettes. Text printed in double columns. 4 large engraved plates at end of the first volume, and other fine woodcut head and tailpieces throughout. xcvi, 298; 452 pages. Folios, 18th century sheep with red leather spine labels; red edges. Venetiis: Ex Typographia Remondiniana, 1761. Lacks the engraved portrait; chip at the top of the spine of the first volume. Otherwise an excellent clean copy of second issue of first edition of this landmark work. Very good condition.<br/><br/> "By this great work, one of the most important in the history of medicine, Morgagni was the true founder of modern pathological anatomy. The work was completed in Morgagni's 79th year and consists of a series of 70 letters reporting about 700 cases and necropsies. As best as he could, he correlated the clinical record with the post-mortem finding. Morgagni gave the first descriptions of several pathological conditions. He was Professor of Anatomy at Padua." GM 2276; Osler 1178; Waller 6672; Dawson 394; Norman 1547; Blake 312.<br/><br/>