Collection of 10 Autograph Letters, 3 Signed ("A. Scarpa"), all in his autograph, to the Rector of Bognaco, 11 pp, 4to, Pavia, 1812-1820, condition varies, some soiling, one letter missing lower left corner, with text loss, and two others with marginal tears affecting text. Antonio Scarpa "was an eminent anatomist, a skilled surgeon, and one of the powerful teachers at Pavia University during its period of greatest renown" (DSB 12, pp 136-139). Scarpa's greatest work is his 1794 neurological atlas, Tabulae nevrologicae: "This elegantly illustrated atlas is regarded as Scarpa's greatest work. The result of 20 years of research, it includes the first proper delineation of the glossopharyngeal, vagus, hypoglossal, and cardiac nerves, and the first demonstration of cardiac innervation" (Garrison-Morton 1253). Accompanied by a stipple engraved portrait by Ambroise Tardieu (c.1820).
Collection of 10 Autograph Letters, 3 Signed ("A. Scarpa"), all in his autograph, to the Rector of Bognaco, 11 pp, 4to, Pavia, 1812-1820, condition varies, some soiling, one letter missing lower left corner, with text loss, and two others with marginal tears affecting text. Antonio Scarpa "was an eminent anatomist, a skilled surgeon, and one of the powerful teachers at Pavia University during its period of greatest renown" (DSB 12, pp 136-139). Scarpa's greatest work is his 1794 neurological atlas, Tabulae nevrologicae: "This elegantly illustrated atlas is regarded as Scarpa's greatest work. The result of 20 years of research, it includes the first proper delineation of the glossopharyngeal, vagus, hypoglossal, and cardiac nerves, and the first demonstration of cardiac innervation" (Garrison-Morton 1253). Accompanied by a stipple engraved portrait by Ambroise Tardieu (c.1820).
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