Lot 1610 Felix Fontana. Traité sur le vénin de la …

Traité sur le vénin de la vipère sur les poisons américains sur le laurier-cérise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux. 2 Bde. Mit 10 gefalt. Tafeln. Florenz, 1781. XXVIII, 328 S., XI, 373 S. 4°. Dekorative gesprenkelte Kalbslederbände der Zeit mit floraler Rückenvergoldung und je 2 Rückenschildern (Rücken professionell im Stil der Zeit und kaum merklich erneuert, Kanten leicht berieben).

Zoologie - Herpetologie - Ophiologie

Naturwissenschaften – Haeser II, 586 - Sabin 24988 - Wellcome III, 37. - Erste französische Ausgabe von Fontanas bedeutendem naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischem Hauptwerk über Tier- und Pflanzengifte. Der italienische Physiologe und Naturforscher Felice Fontana (1730-1805) zählt zu den Pionieren der experimentellen Toxikologie. In seinen umfangreichen, auf systematischen Versuchen beruhenden Untersuchungen behandelte er insbesondere das Gift der Viper, südamerikanische Pfeilgifte, den Kirschlorbeer (Prunus laurocerasus) sowie weitere pflanzliche Gifte. Die zehn mehrfach gefalteten Tafeln veranschaulichen die Versuchsapparaturen, anatomischen Beobachtungen und naturhistorischen Gegenstände. Fontanas Arbeit markiert einen wichtigen Schritt weg von spekulativen Vorstellungen über Vergiftungen hin zu einer empirisch-experimentellen Erforschung ihrer Wirkungen. Zugleich besitzt sie hohe Bedeutung für die Geschichte der Physiologie, Pharmakologie und Toxikologie des 18. Jahrhunderts. - "The quality of Fontana's scientific accomplishment is evident from his first work, on irritability and sensitivity, a subject that he continued to pursue so intensely as to earn the praise of Haller in 1767 ... The research on the movement of the Iris (1765) and on viper venom (1767, 1781) is strictly tied to irritability" (DSB V, 55 - 57). - Meist im Rand etw. stockfleckig, insgesamt jedoch sehr gut erhaltene u. saubere Exemplare.

Natural Sciences – Zoology. - Hereptology - Ophiology - 2 vols. Decorative speckled calfs bindings of the period with floral gilt spine and 2 spine labels each (spines professionally renewed in the style of the period and barely noticeable, edges slightly rubbed) - First French edition of Fontana's important principal work in the natural and medical sciences on animal and plant poisons. The Italian physiologist and naturalist Felice Fontana (1730-1805) ranks among the pioneers of experimental toxicology. In his extensive investigations, based on systematic experiments, he dealt in particular with viper venom, South American arrow poisons, cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus), and other vegetable poisons. The ten large folding plates illustrate the experimental apparatus, anatomical observations, and natural-history specimens. Fontana's work represents an important move away from speculative ideas about poisoning toward an empirical, experimental study of its effects. It is therefore also of considerable importance for the history of eighteenth-century physiology, pharmacology, and toxicology.- - Mostly in the margins somewhat foxed, but overall very well preserved and clean copies.

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