Regolamento dei regi spedali di Santa Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio

Firenze, Per Gaetano Cambiagi Stampatore Granducale, 1789. In-4° (290x22 mm). LXXVIII, [2], 416, [90] p. (the latter containing many plates with printed tables), 11 plates engraved by Cecchi (1 after the frontispiece with two medallions with portrait of Pietro Leopoldo and allegory of Medicine in a frame with laurel wreaths; the other 10, folded several times, at the end, contain plans of the rooms of both hospitals, images of the kitchen and the heating system, views of the facade, as well as an organizational chart for both hospitals. Half leather binding with corners, gold title on a tag on the spine. Rare foxing and tears on the plates

First complete edition of the pioneering regulations for two Florentine hospitals marking the first appearance in print of the reforms of the physician Vincenzo Chiarugi in the treatment of the mentally ill