Catalogo de’ libri attenenti alla medicina, chirurgia, anatomia, chimica, botanica, storia naturale, fisica, e medicina veterinaria ec., che si trovano vendibili presso Stefano Manfredi, co’ ristretti prezzi a moneta del Regno di Napoli

8vo (180x113 mm). 31, [1 blank] pp. Later wrappers. Some occasional spotting, a good copy.

Extremely rare sales catalogue of the Neapolitan bookseller Stefano Manfredi devoted exlusively to medicine, surgery, anatomy, veterinary medicine, and natural sciences. It is arranged in aphabetical order by author’s surname. Each entry also provides the printing place and date, the format, and the price. Among the most expensive books are the 59 volume Zatta 1789 edition of Buffon’s ‘Natural History’ (35), Galileo’s collected works printed in Padua in 1744 (4,50), Haller’s Elementa physiologiae corporis humani (Naples, 1776, 7), and Moragni’s De sedibus et causis morborum (Venice, 1765, 3,60). A note on title-page verso states that all books are bound either on cardboards (“alla rustica) or on vellum (“in pergamena”).