GHISI, Martino (1715-1794). Lettere Mediche. Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1749.

8vo (238 x 165 mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. Later half vellum, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. FIRST EDITION.

[Bound with:] [IBN AL-BEITHAR]. Ebembitar De Limonibus Tractatus Arabicus in Latinum ab Andrea Bellunensi. Edited by Martino Ghisi. Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1757.

A rare translation of the first citrus book, originally written in Arabic and translated in 1602 by Andrea Bellunensi. We trace no other editions of this work published after Ghisi's edited 1757 publication.

Ghisi, a physician in Cremona, Italy, studies under Paolo Valcarenghis before moving to Florence. He returned to Cremona to practice medicine, and in 1747-1748, he combatted an epidemic which struck a large number of children and adolescents in the Cremona region. He made careful clinical and meteorological observations on the epidemic, which he published in the present pamphlet Lettre mediche del Dottor M. Ghisi. The second section of the work presents the first complete scientific description of diphtheria. RARE: We trace no copy of either work ever sold at auction.

Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum

GHISI, Martino (1715-1794). Lettere Mediche. Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1749.