RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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expostos este presente anno de 1712 . . . (Colophon:) Lisbon: Officina de
Miguel Manescal, 1712. Folio, disbound. Large woodcut royal arms
of Portugal beneath caption title. Large woodcut initial. Each page
within a border of type ornaments. Two small holes in inner margin,
one affecting border, faint marginal dampstaining, top edge frayed with
slight loss to typographic borders. (2 ll.).
159. ORREGO LUCO, Augusto. Los enterrados vivos, estudio de medicina
legal. Santiago: Imprenta de la Republica de J. Nunez, 1876. 4°, later half
cloth with original yellow printed wrappers bound in. Slight browning
and spotting; a few short marginal tears (repaired). Overall a good to
very good copy. Later inscription on upper wrapper from Edward (?)
Reed. 42 pp. $100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION? A series of stories of men who were apparently dead,
but who revived, with suggestions of measures that could be taken to prevent people
from being buried alive. On p. 21, the author notes severely that he has not taken these
stories from Edgar Allan Poe!
j Not in Palau, who cites three other works by this author. Not located in NUC.
OCLC: 80360405 (Harvard Medical School).
160. PANAZZI, Pietro. Anno clinico di Panazzi Pietro professore di medicina
practica e clinica nell’ Universita di Pavia. Milan: Dalla Stamperia e Fonderia
al Genio Tipografico, Casa Crivelli, anno X (1802). 8°, contemporary
blue-gray wrappers (joint of front wrapper torn; slightly shaky with
a few signatures loose). Woodcut medical vignette on title page. Title
page soiled. Minor marginal worming beginning with a pinpoint hole
on p. 239, becomming somewhat more extensive and affecting a few
letters on the final 6 leaves. Uncut. Good to very good. (22 ll.), 288 pp.
$150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Reports on the daily progress of a number of diseases,
including rheumatic and other fevers, various types of pneumonia, angina, dysentery,
syphilis, and dropsy.
j NUC: DNLM: calling for only 21 preliminary leaves. OCLC: 14835330 (National
Library of Medicine). The online Italian Union Catalogue locates two copies, at Biblioteca
dell’Istituto di Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni-Facolta’ di Medicina e Chirurgia-
Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna, and the Biblioteca Storica della Provincia di Torino.
Not located in Copac.