L'arte di prolungare la vita umana

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Author:  Guglielmo Hufeland

Publisher:  Eredi di Pietro Galeazzi

Place of printing:  Pavia

Year of publication:  1798

Product Condition:
Work in two volumes. Bindings in fair condition in half leather with marbled corners and boards, gilded titles and fillets on the spines: dust spots, abrasions on the boards, edges and curved corners; peeling on the spines, on the muzzles and on the hinges; missing parts on the spine and on the upper part of the muzzle of the first volume; woodworm hole on the front hinge of the second volume. Browned edges with dust spots and brown spots. Collational formula: [π]⁴, A-P⁸; A-Q⁸ (last blank leaf missing). Leaves in fair condition with scattered foxing and signs of wear. Stamp with ownership signature and location note in pencil on the first blank sheet of the first volume; ownership signature and location note in pencil on the first blank sheet of the second volume; ownership stamp on both frontispieces. Also to be noted on the first volume: brown spots from the following leaf the title page up to B; writings in colored pastel on A7; damp stain on the lateral margin from the beginning of the volume to the B inner part inclusive; pencil writing on the verso of E6; tear on the L5 paper without compromising the text; holes in P7. In the second volume: minimal pencil writing in F and F2; dent in the upper external corner in M6. Text in Italian.

Pages:  (8),239,(1);254

Format:  In eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  20
Width:  12

Description

Interesting treatise published in Jena in the first edition in 1797 with the title “Die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern”, a work by the German doctor Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762-1836) who invented the neologism Makrobiotik to indicate the possibility of extending man's life. In the two volumes that make up the work, the first with the theoretical part, the second with the practical part, Hufeland sets out his theories that can be framed in a holistic vision of medicine, in which a temperate lifestyle, moderation in passions, habits and the living environment, contribute to maintaining health and therefore prolonging existence. Our copy is part of the first Italian edition of the work, translated by Luigi Careno, "practical doctor in Vienna, member of the academies of Mantua, Turin, Zurich, Siena, Vienna etc." as indicated on the frontispiece, and published in Pavia by the heirs of Pietro Galeazzi as early as 1798, attesting to the resonance in the medical environment of the German edition which went through 8 editions by 1860.

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