SCARPA, ANTONIO. 1752-1832.


Memoria sulla legatura delle principali arterie degli arti con una appendice all'opera sull'aneurisma. Pavia: Pietro Bizzoni, 1817. 4to (332 x 233 mm). Half leather and marbled boards. Rubbing and small chips to binding, very light spotting. FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY. "Scarpa ... was an eminent anatomist, a skilled surgeon, and one of the powerful teachers at Pavia University during its period of greatest renown" (DSB). This work supplements Scarpa's 1804 monograph on aneurysms. "Scarpa continued to perform pioneering research in this field, reporting his results in the present work" (Norman 1902, giving incorrect date of 1813). Garrison-Morton 2940.