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Baronio, Giuseppe (1759 - 1811)
ON GRAFTING IN ANIMALS (DEGLI INNESTI ANIMALI).
Boston, The Boston Medical Library, In The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1985.
8vo. 88, [4] pp. Illustrated.

Publisher's quarter green morocco, contrasting gilt-lettered label, paper boards reproducing 19th century Italian flowered paper. Printed at the Bird & Bull Press, Newtown, Pa.
No. 182 of an edition limited to 325 copies.

$ 78

English edition of Baronio's Degli innesti animali (Milano 1804), translated by Joan Bond Sax, with an historical introduction by Robert M. Goldwyn. "Definitive edition". "Baronio was among the first to attempt transplantation and experimental surgey in animals. He successfully carried out full-thickness skin grafts after detachment from the body, and the first purely scientific research in the history of plastic surgery"(G&M).

* Cf. G&M 5736.

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