Giovanni Luigi Targioni Tozzetti - Raccolta di opuscoli fisico-medici [voll X-XIII) - 1776

Collection of physico-medical pamphlets

In Florence, 1776
At the printing house of Giuseppe and Pietro Allegrini

edited by Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti [illustrious Florentine physician (1712-83), scholar, naturalist with a leaning toward botany, he was prefect of the Magliabechiana, a member of the Accademia della Crusca as well as a physician at the Spedale di S. Maria Nuova and at that of the Innocenti]

Comprises volumes X-XIII, a miscellany of studies by the era’s most renowned scientists (the first concerns the medico-legal opinion of Giovanni Luigi Targioni Tozzetti and Saverio Manetti, also a Florentine physician, on a six-month fetus, the second a dissertation by the Geneva pedagogue Giacomo Ballexseld on the causes of death in children, and the third is an experimental investigation into the properties of blood, author Guglielmo Hewson, professor of anatomy considered the father of hematology).

In octavo, contemporary half-leather binding, gilt titles to the spine, marbled edges, one plate (identical) engraved on wood on every frontispiece.

A charming copy on strong, laid paper, an old restoration on the frontispiece, handwritten marks, some creases, robust binding, some losses to the spine.