BELLINI (Lorenzo). Exercitationes anatomicae duae de structura et usu renum ut et de gustus organo novissime deprehenso ... de saporibus. Accedunt quaedam renum monstrosorum exempla ... per Gerardum Blasium. Leiden, J. Van Kerkhem, 1726. In-4, ivory vellum, decorated with fillets and a central motif in cold on the boards, red edges (Binding of the period). 5 ff., 16 pp. - 4 folding engraved plates. New edition of two treatises by the Florentine physician Bellini (1643 - 1704) on the kidneys and the organ of taste. - Blake 40. The memoir on the structure and use of the kidneys and the discovery of the uriniferous ducts appeared in 1662. The second memoir, published in 1665, established the organ of taste in the nerve papillae of the tongue. A very fine copy. Ex-libris Dr François Moutier. Joint: BELLINI (K.). Same work. Leiden, J.A. Langerack, 1711. 5 ff. 16 pp. 1 folding plate. - Blake 40. followed by : NEUBAUER (Joannes Ernest). Observationem Anatomico-Chirurgicam De Epiploo-Oscheocele, cujus Receptaculum Peritonaei Mentiebatur Processum Testem... Iena, Hartung, 1770. 23 pp. 2 plates. Blake 322. First edition. Followed by : NEUBAUER (J. E.). Dissertatio inauguralis anatomica de Tunicis vaginalibus testis et funiculi spermatici. Giessen, Braun, 1767. 48 pp. First edition of the author's doctoral thesis. Not in Blake. Set of 3 works in one volume in 4, bound in 19th century black half-chagrin.