[History of Medicine] MALACARNE Vincenzo. Delle opere de' Medici e de' Cerusici che nacquero, o fiorirono prima del secolo XVI negli Stati della Real Casa di Savoia. Monumenti. [segue:] ID. ID., ... Altri Monumenti. Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1786-89.

2 vols. 4to mm. 280x 210; Ist vol. in sewing binding, the IInd vol in quarter vellum; pp [26], 121, 2!, 122-292 p.; pp. [24], 164, [4] of errata. Coat of arms of Savoia on the title pages. Work very rare and hard to find complete [the first volume was published in two separate booklets, and the second appeared three years after the first], fundamental for the history of medicine in Piedmont until the reign of Amadeus VIII, based on a patient direct reconnaissance work of the manuscript and printed sources, and countless texts of medieval medicine. Contains "besides the names of Physicians and Surgeons of those 'time, even that of' philosophers; excerpts of their works handwritten, or pubblicatesi then prints; the origin of the press news and the most illustrious Piedmontese printers, and states called there by other countries; you collect the times of pestilence, epidemics and animal diseases, from which these provinces had been devastated "

[Memorie storiche intorno alla vita e alle opere di M.V.G. Malacarne, Padova, 1819, p. 85]. Manno-Promis, n. 1125 [rileva la "singolare freddezza ed indifferenza con che venne accolta quest'opera in paese mentre vi facevano largo plauso i dotti stranieri"]; Bonino, II/p. 538; Hirsch, IV/42 ["werthvoll... Werk"].Specimen with wide margins, slight foxing.