Malpighi Marcello - Opera Medica, Et Anatomica varia quibus praefationes, & animadversiones addidit - 1743

MALPIGHI MARCELLOMarcelli Malpighi . . . OPERA MEDICA, ET ANATOMICA VARIA quibus praefationes, & animadversiones addidit, pluribusque in locis emendationes instituit Faustinus Gavinellus publicus Anatomiae lector. Venice (1743) - Andrea Poletti1 volume in-FOLIO (395 mm x 247 mm) , dimensions of binding: 400 mm x 258 mm) [24] , 334, [2] (blanks) pages. XIX full page copper engraved plates. Full page engraved portrait of Marcello Malpighi signed “Isabella Piccini”Full page engraving with a very nice scene at end signed “Isabella Piccini”. At page 289 the work: “DE STRUCTURA GLANDULARUM CONGLOBATARUM CONSIMILIUMQUE PARTIUM EPISTOLA”At page 299 the work: “MORBORUM EXITIALIUM TYRANNICA SAEVITIA per annos nobilem mulierem dirimentium syntomia in medicam historiam redacta. A Johanne Baptista Gyraldo”Contemporary full leather binding worn (see photos) with an elaborated gilt spine and gilt title on leather piece. Title page perhaps reinforced at verso. A very slight stain (barely visible) in the lower right corner of the first leaves. A very small (brown) waterstain in the lower right corner of the first leaves (See pics) . Some small wormhole in the lower and upper internal margin of the last three leaves (flyleaf included) . First flyleaf with signs of wormholes. A VERY GOOD COPY. VERY SCARCE WORK, PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY, OF THE GREAT ITALIAN SCIENTIST (1628 -1694) DEALING, IN PARTICULAR, WITH TEETH AND FOR THE “EPISTOLA” ABOUT GLANDS. «Malpighi was the founder of histology and the greatest of the microscopists. In 1660 he was the first to see the capillary anastomosis between the arteries and the veins, thus helping the completion of Harvey's work on the circulation. He was a great embryologist; his name is perpetuated in "Malpighian bodies", "Malpighi's layer" of the epidermis, "Malpighi's (splenic) Corpuscles"» (Garrison & Morton, n. 66, p. 10) .