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196. SANTOS, Albano Pereira dos. Perversão sexual. Familacão:
Typographia Minerva, 1903. 8°, original printed rear wrapper
(detached; chipped, lacking front wrapper, spine gone, signatures
loose). Light browning. Minor offsetting of type on half title. Overall
somewhat less than good. Old paper tag on spine. Old perforated
salmon-colored ticket of Livraria Castro e Silva, Lisboa, in upper
outer corner of half title verso. Older perforated salmon-colored ticket
of Prof. C. Sacadura at foot of spine, partly covered with two other
smaller labels. 110 pp., (1 l.). $35.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Inaugural thesis presented to the School of Medicine
and Surgery of Porto. Members of the faculty are listed on p. [5].
j Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa. Not in Pires
de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Not located in NUC.
Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Copac.
Best Portuguese Work of its Day on Anatomy,
With Numerous Illustrations by One of Portugal’s Best Engravers
197. SANTUCCI, Bernardo. Anatomia do corpo humano, recopilada com
doutrinas medicas, chimicas, filosoficas, mathematicas, com indices, e estampas,
representantes todas as partes do corpo humano. Lisboa Occidental: Antonio
Pedrozo Galram, 1739. 4°, contemporary sheep (somewhat worn,
especially at the corners, lacks front free endleaf, rear free endleaf
loose), spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, morocco
label (slightly chipped), gilt letter, text block edges rouged. Woodcut
headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Recent inscription in light blue ink in
upper outer blank corner of title-page. Many manuscript notations on
front pastedown endleaf, blank verso of final leaf, and final endleaves.
Internally very good to fine; overall good to very good. (40 ll.), 471 pp.,
18 engraved plates. $1,500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This is generally acknowledged to be the first such
work in the Portuguese language, and the best work on anatomy in Portuguese of its
time. Ferreira de Mira, paraphrasing Serrano, states that “no seu tempo não havia outro
tão bom no nosso idioma” (p. 205).
In 1732 Santucci (a native of Cortona, Italy) came at the invitation of D. João V to
replace the controversial Monravá e Roca as professor of anatomy at the Hospital de
Todos os Santos in Lisbon. This work was written (but not published) in Santucci’s native
Italian, then translated by Celestino Seguineau. Monravá e Roca, still practicing in Lisbon,
published a scathing attack on Santucci’s Anatomia in the same year: Desterro critico de
falsas anatomias. (Monravá’s own works on anatomy are considered to have serious flaws.)
Santucci’s careful teaching style was the opposite of Monravá’s, and apparently aroused
such dislike among physicians and surgeons that D. João dismissed Santucci in 1747.
The well-executed plates show the skeletal, muscular and circulatory systems, the