Beschreibung:

circa 21,4 x 14,2 cm., 36 pp.. Half-vellum binding (around 1900) with gilded label on marbled front cover Rare first edition of this treatise on dental therapeutics by the pharmacist Giovanni Pompeo Grifoni who published several works on dentistry (one year later the "Metodo practico per la pulizia, conservazione e cura dei denti guasti"). The present work is dedicated to Maria Bichi Borghesi and the preface points out how important good teeth are not only for medical but also aesthetic reasons.

Bemerkung:

- First endpaper with older stamp of a medical institution, book crisp and printed on good paper.