FABRIZI, Paolo.

8vo, 67 pages, 2 plates (one engraved, and one lithographed and folding). Modern wrappers, fine copy. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half-title to Dr. Bavebacourt(?).

Second edition, the first having appeared in 1841 at Malta, where the author practised. Although Fabrizi was not the first Italian surgeon of the modern period to perform a rhinoplasty (he had at least two predecessors in Canella and Signorini), his treatise (according to Zeis in the chapter on rhinoplasty) is the earliest separate Italian monograph on rhinoplasty, and one of the few Italian treatises on the subject in a period when it was dominated by German and French surgeons. Zeis Index 781: “Fabrizi used the Italian method, but with the difference that he took the skin from the forearm near the elbow.” Rare. NUC records 2 copies of this edition (but notes only one plate), and 2 copies of the first.