In 8° (229x140 mm); 88 pages with 5 plates outside the text, engraved in copper on heavy paper by Pietro Anderloni; contemporary marbled paper. A fine edition of the first fundamental work on the subject, published three years after the first edition by the same printer, Comino, with the same engravings as the previous one. Genuine copy with full margins. Ownership stamp on the title page of Bader, *Genesi ed evoluzione dell’ortopedia in Italia*, pp. 101–108: “With this treatise, now considered a classic in the field of historiography, Scarpa not only brought this deformity to light and established its didactic framework—from diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic perspectives—but also imparted a scientific foundation to orthopedics itself, understood as the discipline concerned with the treatment of deviations from the normal form of the human body.” Garrison & Morton, 4308 for the 1803 ed.: “First accurate description of the pathological anatomy of congenital clubfoot”; Hirsch, V, p. 45. Valentin, Geschichte der Orthopädie, p. 80. Biok, Source Book of Orthopedics, pp. 153, 265. Monti, Antonio Scarpa in His Scientific History, pp. 61–62.