BIANCHI (Giovanni Battista). Historia hepatica, seu theoria et praxis omnium Morborum hepatis et bilis... Geneva, Gabriel de Tournes et fils, 1725. 2 large volumes in-4, brown half calf (contemporary binding). 14 f. n. o., 784 pp. - 1 f. title and continued pagination in vol. II: pp. 785 to 1230 - 10 large folding plates engraved by J. G. Seiller in vol. II. Third edition, much enlarged, of this important treatise on diseases of the liver and gallbladder (the first edition appeared in one volume in Turin in 1710). G. B. Bianchi (1681-1761) was one of the greatest anatomists of his time. At the end of the second volume we find, with separate paginations, six discourses by G. B. Bianchi: Orationes sex anatomicae, by the same publisher with titles dated 1721-1723. - 4 ff. 30 pp. 1 f. - 19 pp. - 26 pp. 1 f. - 19 pp. - 1 f., pp. 23 to 34 - 1 f., pp. 35 to 48. A fresh copy, the head of volume II a little damaged. Blake 47 - Wellcome, II, 161.