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Lot 42
13.12.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 3 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1105711
Lot 42 | Anonymous
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
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Breve raguaglio delle sensazioni materiali, o esterne, in Italian, manuscript on vellum [Italy, c.1760-70]

A handsome, unrecorded anatomical handbook on the muscular and neurological processes that govern the five senses.



285 x 242 mm, i + 24 + ii, textually complete, each leaf with a three-column table in red, text in red and black ink, headings in red, a detailed drawing of the ear in bistre on f.19. Contemporary brown calf elaborately gilt (lightly scuffed).



Content: Breve raguaglio delle sensazioni materiali, o esterne. In genere. ff. 2-3v; On touch: 'Spiegazione della Tavola del senso del Tatto' ff. 4-5; On Taste: 'Della Lingua', Tables I-IV, ff.6-9; On Smell: 'Del Naso', Tables I-II, ff.10-11; On Sight, and the structure of the eye, Tables I-VI, ff.12-18; On Hearing, and the structure of the ear: 'Dell'Orecchio', Tables I-V, ff.19-24v.



The text gives a detailed anatomical and philosophical account of the five basic human senses according to new 18th-century theories, quoting several contemporary European anatomists and physiologists: Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666-1723), who coined the term 'Eustachian tube'; Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), the first to show the connection of the vascular systems of the mother and the fetus; Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), the founder of clinical teaching, dubbed 'the father of physiology'; Georg Erhard Hamberger (1697-1755); and Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777).

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