MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771). Adversaria anatomica omnia, Venice, 1762, 6 parts in one volume, folio, 11 engraved plates, later half calf.

MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771).  Adversaria anatomica omnia. Archetypis æris tabulis cominianis ab auctore ipso communicatis, & universali accuratissimo indice ornata. Opus nunc vere absolutum, quibus universa humani corporis anatome, & subinde etiam quæ ab hac pendent, res medica, & chirurgica admodum illustrantur. Venice: Ex Typographia Remondiniana, 1762. 6 parts in one volume, folio (395 x 245mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 11 engraved anatomical plates, one of which folding, vignettes, ornaments and initials, text printed in double column (occasional light spotting and staining to the text but the plates generally very clean and crisp). Later half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with tan morocco lettering-piece, uncut. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); "Prof G. J. Cameron with the sender's regards, [illegible signature]" (modern inscription in red ink to half title). The work, whose parts were first published between 1706 and 1719, comprises, in its first part, "... a series of researches on fine anatomy conducted according to the tradition established by Malpighi. Morgagni's book actually records a whole succession of discoveries regrading minute organic mechanisms, including the glands of the trachea, of the male urethra, and of the female genitals. These represent new contributions to the mechanical interpretation of the structure of the organism, as do the descriptions in the five subsequent Adversaria" (DSB). Blake p.312; cf. Brunet III, 460; Osler 1182; Waller 6669.