4to (226 x 164 mm). Engraved title within architectural border, 11 engraved plates. (Engraved title bound in on a stub, some minor spotting or staining.) Later mottled calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Robert J. Moes (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of Magni's treatise on the art of bleeding and the use of leeches in therapeutic medicine.  Magni, an Italian surgeon in Piacenza, was a practitioner of phlebotomy, and also wrote a treatise on cautery. The fine engravings are by Adamo Ghisi,  and depict the methods that can be used for bloodletting on various places on the body. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one complete copy of this edition of this work has sold at auction in the last 40 years. Mortimer Italian II, 267; Wellcome I, 3959.