ILLUSTRATED UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT WITH COPPER ENGRAVINGS Treatise on surgical operations First half of the 18th C.

Trattato delle operationi chirurgiche agionte alcune osseruationi con sue figure.

Treatise on surgical operations with figures. First half of the 18th century? Large 8vo (21 x 17 cm)

Probably an abridgement in Italian by Carlo Michele Lotteri, of the 'Cours d'opérations de chirurgie' by Dionis. This conclusion is based on the identical title page of another manuscript in the Wellcome library. No record has been traced of an Italian translation of Dionis' work-first printed in Paris in 1707. This MS. is either an original translation and abridgement by Lotteri, or notes of lectures on operative surgery closely following the original text, taken down by him when a student. Produced in Turin? The plates are identical with the MS in in the Wellcome and different from the work of Dionis.

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Engraved title page within an ornamental shield. 518 pages and 73 chalcographic plates (of which one group numbered from II to LX and others not numbered, and a pair folded), Title page, with on the verso side a poem, list of "Instruments of Surgery. 1- 474 are all written with neat and legible handwriting, pp. 475-518 in a less tidy handwriting. The plates illustrate surgical instruments and ailments.

There is an annotation relating to the birth of the two children of the author or owner of the volume, which noted that his eldest daughter was born in 1760 and the second born in 1763; followed by two papers dated 1766-1767 and annotations relating to crop. The author tells us that he is living in Piacenza in the year 1767 where he is the surgeon.