Scarpa, De Penitiori Ossium Structura Commentarius, 1799 (Haskel Norman's copy)

De Penitiori Ossium Structura Commentarius. Auctore Antonio Scarpa in ticinensi gymnasio anatomes et chirurgiae clinics professore etc. etc. Lipsiae, Sumbibus J. F. Hartknoch. 1799. 
Bound in limp cardstock with pink paste paper. Paper label on spine. Book plate of Haskel Norman on inside of front board. Prior dealer’s pencil markings on front blank. Some mild scattered damp stain to first dozen leaves, as well as around margins of first plate, unobtrusive, and not involving images. Otherwise, clean, bright, and tight throughout with well-retained margins. 
 
55 pages and 3 plates (near rear). 
 
Antonio Scarpa (June 13, 1752 – 1832), was an Italian surgeon and anatomist, and was a contemporary of the German anatomist Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring. Scarpa received anatomic instruction from Morgagni in Padua, and in surgery from Riviera in Bologna. He was professor of these at Modena. He studied also in France and England, and later (accompanied by Alessandro Volta) in Germany. 
 
“Scarpa was one of the most excellent men of his day, inventive, and of untiring diligence. Finer anatomy, especially the anatomy of the nerves and operative surgery, owes to him most vital advancements. He was besides an admirable artist....” He trained Faustino Anderloni to be the engraver of his illustrations. The resultant engravings even surpass Soemmerring’s in some regards. 
 
His De penitiori of 1799 “contains three copperplates drawn and engraved by (Faustino) Anderloni, representing the texture of the bones. Partly zootomic and partly patholigc modes of exact representations.” (Choulant) 
 
He is eponymized in Scarpa’s fascia and Scarpa’s triangle of the thigh (see G-M 3583).