[Medicine/Anatomy] Pascoli, Alessandro: The human body… all its organs and their main functions are described in a Compendium... In Venice, by Andrea Poletti, 1750

Format in-8°, mm. 235x175, pp. (8), 255, 52, 21 cc. of plates. Complete. Back binding. In full old parchment with gold titles on the spine. Sprayed edges of the pages. Frontispiece printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, restored with old paper reapplied to the back. Woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces in the text. Copperplate frontispiece bound at the end together with the 20 anatomy plates outside the text. Work of Alessandro Pascoli Perugino (1669-1757), doctor and anatomist, taught in Rome and Perugia. He gave anatomical demonstrations by dissecting cadavers, like his colleague and competitor Andreas Vesalius. He maintained a vast correspondence with intellectuals from all over Europe. His philosophical and scientific works follow the methods of René Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche. His treatises on metaphysics, medicine and mathematics exhibit a coherent and methodical thought that demonstrates the philosophical vitality of Italian culture of the period. Presented as one of the most thorough and exhaustive treatises on the organs of the human body and their specific functions, first published in 1700, it was so successful that numerous further editions followed.