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198. SCHULLIAN, Dorothy M., ed. The Baglivi Correspondence from the
Library of Sir William Osler. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press,
1974. Small folio (28 x 19.5 cm.), publisher’s dark blue gilt-stamped
cloth with original transparent vinyl dust jacket. A fine copy. xxi, 531
pp., (2 ll.). $25.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this group of 173 letters to and from the physician
Giorgio Baglivi (1668–1707) in Latin, Italian and French, with English summaries. The
originals were acquired in 1908 by Osler, a turn-of-the-century medical practitioner and
book collector who greatly influenced medical education in the English-speaking world.
The book includes extensive scholarly apparatus.
199. SCUDERI, Rosario. Introduzione alla storia della medicina antica
e moderna. Naples: Fratelli Marotta, 1796. 8°, contemporary blue
wrappers (minor soiling; head and foot of spine defective). Publisher’s
large engraved vignette on title page. Minor worming to first 4 leaves
touching 7 letters of text, but not affecting legibility. A few small, light
stains in outer blank margin of title page and following two leaves.
Uncut. Overall good to very good. 160 pp. $200.00
Second or third edition of a very successful history of medicine from the Greeks up
to Cullen and Brown, first published Naples, 1794. At least ten editions of this text were
published between 1794 and 1831.
j See National Library of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century STC p. 412, citing editions of
Naples 1794, Milan 1800 and Venice 1800. Not located in NUC. The Italian Union Catalog
locates six copies of the present editon, plus 3 copies of another edition of the same place,
year, and publisher with viii, 208 pp.; also located are editions of Naples 1814, Padua
1824, and Padua 1831. This edition not located in WorldCat, which lists those of Naples
1794, Venice 1800, Padua 1824, and a French-language edition, Paris 1810. Copac locates
a single copy of the present edition, in the Wellcome Library, as well as editions of Naples
1794, Milan 1800, Venice 1800, Padua 182?, Padua 1824, Padua 1827, and Paris 1810.
200. SHAFT, William. Amor e segurança. Regras, preceitos e meios de se
evitar a gravidez. A. Fadón de Lizaso, trans. Lisbon: A Popular Typ. rua
do Regedor, for Livraria do Povo de Francisco Silva, 1910. Bibliotheca
Popular Scientifico-sexual. 16°, original printed wrappers (shaken, small
holes in upper wrapper with loss of 2 words). Typographical headpieces
and tailpieces. Tables in text. Browned. Overall good. Contemporary
ownership inscription on the half title. 96 pp., with a wood engraving
of the female reproductive organs. $75.00
This popular work is primarily concerned with methods of sterilization and termination
of pregnancies. The preliminary section contains a diagram of female reproductive organs.