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8vo (204x132 mm). 47, [1 blank] pp. Contemporary or slightly later marbled cardboards, marbled edges (worn and rubbed). A very good copy.
First and only edition of the catalogue of the published works, lectures, and observations by the physician Lorenzo Nannoni. The booklet opens with a note from the typographers, Luigi and Benedetto Bindi, thanking Nannoni for accepting their invitation to provide an explanatory discourse on the catalogue. The discourse (pp. 4-18) is dated Florence, 20 October 1786. At the end of the volume is added the catalogue of the most remarkable items and monstruosities held in the cabinet attached to the anatomical theater of the Hospital of the Innocents in Florence (Catalogo delle cose più rimarcabili tanto sane, che morbose, quali esistono nel Gabinetto annesso all'Anfiteatro anatomico del regio Spedalo degli Innocenti di Firenze).
Lorenzo Nannoni, a native of Florence, was a highly regarded surgeon who was greatly appreciated by Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who appointed him director of the Ospedale degli Innocenti and later granted him permission to travel throughout Europe, together with other doctors such as Felice Fontana, Giovanni Fabbroni, and Giorgio Santi, with the aim of learning new surgical techniques. In 1780, he began working as a surgeon at the old Ospedale di San Giovanni di Dio and in 1790, upon his father's death, he took over his position as lecturer and demonstrator of surgical operations at the Arcispedale di Santa Maria Nuova. In addition to surgery, he also achieved considerable success in teaching and was the author of numerous treatises on obstetrics, anatomy, and physiology (cf. F. Tonelli, I protagonisti della chirurgia forentina, Florence, 2011, pp. 87-90).
Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\CFIE\056324 (1 copy). Not in OCLC.