SPECIAL COPY -- THE FIRST SKIN GRAFT
BARONIO, G. Degli innesti animali. Milan: Dalla Stamperia e Fonderia del Genio, 1804
FIRST EDITION., 8vo., 78, [2] pp.
Engraved frontispiece portrait and 2 copperplates (1 folding). Contemporary (possibly author's) text corrections. A superb large paper copy on extra thick paper and in the original hand-blocked printed wrappers., First edition. This landmark work in the history of plastic surgery details the results of Baronio's experiments on autogenous skin grafting in animals at the close of the eighteenth century, the first such study to be carried out in scientifically organized experiments. G&M, 5736.
$US7000
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