Trattato di vari secreti medicinali e maravigliosi a sanare morsificature di cani arrabiati, ed ogni genere di animali velenosi. Nuovamente dati alla stampa [...].

Naples, S. Rossi, 1743

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8vo: [12]-195-[5] pp. (spotted throughout, light marg. dampstaining).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine (stains, note of catalogue on front pastedown).

Extremely rare ed. of this work on treatments for rabies. It was first published in Lucca in 1739 under the title "Trattato della idrofobia". Nothing is known about the author except what is mentioned in the title, i.e. that he was "Primo Medico della Real Famiglia di Sua Maestà Napoletana &c.".
Ref. Cp. Wellcome III:7 (1st ed.) & Blake p. 143 (id.). - Not in Bibl. Walleriana, Garrison & Morton.
Bound with, same author: Divisamento intorno lo accaduto a Matteo Pizza, il quale da che cadde in un valloncello, mai più prese sonno [...]. Lucca, s.n., 1739. [2]-80 pp. (same condition, sm. marg. wormtrack). Rare first edition telling the curious case of Matteo Pizza who fell in a ditch and lost sleep after that. Ref. Not in Wellcome, Blake, Bibl. Walleriana, Garrison & Morton. Both works are dedicated to Francesco Buoncore, "Medico di Camera della maestà [...] e Protomedico del regno di Napoli". (2 works in 1 vol.)

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