SCARPA, Antonio (1752-1832). Tabulae neurologicae ad illustrandam historiam anatomicam cardiacorum nervorum, noni nervorum cerebri... Pavia: B. Comini, 1794.
SCARPA, Antonio (1752-1832). Tabulae neurologicae ad illustrandam historiam anatomicam cardiacorum nervorum, noni nervorum cerebri... Pavia: B. Comini, 1794. Chancery broadsheets (602 x 452 mm). 14 engraved plates (7 in outline) (some occasional light foxing.) Later green half vellum, marbled boards. Provenance : Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 16 June 1998, lot 775). FIRST EDITION. SCARPA'S ANATOMIC MASTERPIECE. The seven life-size plates, engraved from Scarpa's own drawings by Faustino Anderloni (1766-1847), "show his [Scarpa's] mastery of both anatomy and draughtsmanship. Technical drawing in architecture, engineering, and anatomy sometimes not only achieves its primary purpose, but, passing beyond the transmission of information, reaches an excellence akin to that of commissioned fine art. Scarpa's work is of this quality. Until 1794 various engravers from Milan, London, Vienna, and Florence were employed to put Scarpa's ink drawing on the copperplates; in that year, Scarpa employed and trained Faustino Anderloni one of a family of engravers, whose work comes to match the achievement of the anatomist-illustrator. In later publications Anderloni, presumably closely watched by Scarpa, made both the drawing and the engraving from Scarpa's preparations. The paper used for the impressions, the inks, and the presswork were of a quality appropriate to contemporary fine printing in Italy, headed by the Bodoni presses in Parma. The plates of Scarpa and Anderloni must stand among the finest anatomical illustrations ever produced" (Roberts & Tomlinson p. 376). The plates in this work illustrate the human glossopharyngeal, vagus and hypoglossal nerves, which had never before been correctly shown. Scarpa was also the first to delineate correctly the nerves of the heart, and showed that the terminal ramifications of the cardiac nerves are directly connected to cardiac muscular fibers. Scarpa also showed that nerves are not always excited by a stimulus, which shed light on the inhibitory function of the cardiac nerves. Choulant-Frank, p. 299; Garrison-Morton 1253; Heirs of Hippocrates 1105; McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology , pp. 97-99; Norman 1897; Waller 8545.
SCARPA, Antonio (1752-1832). Tabulae neurologicae ad illustrandam historiam anatomicam cardiacorum nervorum, noni nervorum cerebri... Pavia: B. Comini, 1794.
SCARPA, Antonio (1752-1832). Tabulae neurologicae ad illustrandam historiam anatomicam cardiacorum nervorum, noni nervorum cerebri... Pavia: B. Comini, 1794. Chancery broadsheets (602 x 452 mm). 14 engraved plates (7 in outline) (some occasional light foxing.) Later green half vellum, marbled boards. Provenance : Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 16 June 1998, lot 775). FIRST EDITION. SCARPA'S ANATOMIC MASTERPIECE. The seven life-size plates, engraved from Scarpa's own drawings by Faustino Anderloni (1766-1847), "show his [Scarpa's] mastery of both anatomy and draughtsmanship. Technical drawing in architecture, engineering, and anatomy sometimes not only achieves its primary purpose, but, passing beyond the transmission of information, reaches an excellence akin to that of commissioned fine art. Scarpa's work is of this quality. Until 1794 various engravers from Milan, London, Vienna, and Florence were employed to put Scarpa's ink drawing on the copperplates; in that year, Scarpa employed and trained Faustino Anderloni one of a family of engravers, whose work comes to match the achievement of the anatomist-illustrator. In later publications Anderloni, presumably closely watched by Scarpa, made both the drawing and the engraving from Scarpa's preparations. The paper used for the impressions, the inks, and the presswork were of a quality appropriate to contemporary fine printing in Italy, headed by the Bodoni presses in Parma. The plates of Scarpa and Anderloni must stand among the finest anatomical illustrations ever produced" (Roberts & Tomlinson p. 376). The plates in this work illustrate the human glossopharyngeal, vagus and hypoglossal nerves, which had never before been correctly shown. Scarpa was also the first to delineate correctly the nerves of the heart, and showed that the terminal ramifications of the cardiac nerves are directly connected to cardiac muscular fibers. Scarpa also showed that nerves are not always excited by a stimulus, which shed light on the inhibitory function of the cardiac nerves. Choulant-Frank, p. 299; Garrison-Morton 1253; Heirs of Hippocrates 1105; McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology , pp. 97-99; Norman 1897; Waller 8545.
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