BRAMBILLA, Giovanni Alessandro.

Instrumentarium Chirurgicum Viennense.

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Finely engraved title & dedication leaves & 65 finely engraved plates depicting hundreds of surgical instruments. 2 p.l., 159 pp. of text. Large folio, cont. mottled sheep (minor wear to foot of spine, some rubbing), triple gilt fillet round sides, spine gilt, contrasting leather lettering piece on spine. [Vienna: M.A. Schmidt, 1781]. First edition of the most complete survey of surgical and medical instruments of the time. This is a genuinely scarce and beautiful book, finely printed on thick paper; it depicts hundred of surgical instruments in actual size, including 49 dental instruments, as well as those used in otology, ophthalmology, etc. Brambilla (1728-1800), an important military surgeon, “was given by the Emperor Joseph II the task of reorganizing the teaching of military medicine…In Vienna he instituted the Josephinum, an academy of military medicine and surgery (1785), where regular instruction was given for military surgeons…He was one of a number of Italian physicians who successfully practiced medicine in Vienna about the turn of the century.”–Castiglioni, p. 625. A very good and handsome copy. Inlaid to the inside of the lower cover is a most unusual circular green morocco bookplate “Ex Bibliotheca Fr. L.K. A. C.–T. 1788.” The bookplate is 95 mm. in diameter.

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• 订书号：: HillBibl-1934

• 书商: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (USA)