In 8° (mm 240x180) pages. XX, 278, pages repeated in the numbering. 271, 272; editorial imprint on the title page, X plate. copper engravings folded at the end. Contemporary half-parchment with corners, gold title on the spine on a gusset with gold friezes. Dedication to the ill. Mr. Gio: Battista Morgagni, woodcut drop caps, finials. Important and rare work, well illustrated, enhanced and correct, since anatomy, as the author replies, according to Hippocrates, is a very long and difficult art. The problem of the anatomy compendiums of the time was precisely the continuous progression of scientific discoveries by different authors and their dissemination, so many treatises contained errors, or deficient descriptions, which were gradually corrected by new observations and discoveries of young medical scientists. Finally, the dissertation on the choroid membrane of the eye by the same author from page 1 is very interesting. 248. Lorenzo Heister, surgeon (Frankfurt am Main 1683 - Helmstedt 1758), was an important innovator of German surgery. First military doctor, then professor. of anatomy and surgery in Altdorf and Helmstedt, he wrote two famous treatises: one on anatomy (Compendium anatomicum, 1717) and one on surgery (Chirurgie, 1718), which had numerous editions and were translated into seven languages. Among other things, he was the creator of a mouth opener (H.'s mouth opener), still in use, and reported the presence of folds of the mucous membranes inside the cystic duct (H.'s valves), which slow down the outflow of bile from the gallbladder to the common bile duct. Nice copy of this first Venetian edition.