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DOMENICO BILLI : Breve trattato delle malattie degli occhi di Domenico Billi cerusico d’Ancona ... In Ancona, nella stamperia Bellelli, 1749
DOMENICO BILLI
Breve trattato delle malattie degli occhi di Domenico Billi cerusico d’Ancona ... In Ancona, nella stamperia Bellelli, 1749
§ 8vo (210 x 145 ); XX, 224, [4] pp. (last 3 blank), signature: *1-10, A-O1-8, [no sign.]1-2 (last blank); 1 large engraved folding plate, depicting surgical instruments, by Giuseppe Manzoni; woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary boards, printed title-piece on spine. Sporadically faintly browned/foxed but a fascinating, uncut copy.
First edition of one of the most famous and early treatises on ophtalmology printed in Italy.
Ref: De Renzi V, p. 877; Blake p. 48; Lilla Wechsler et al. The Bernard Becker Collection in Ophthalmology