Un Giorno a Madera: Una Pagina Dell' Igiene D'amore

Milano: Bernardoni, 1874. Quarta Edizione (sated). Small 8vo in dark green blind stamped cloth boards; 203p, bib. Text block lightly foxed; board edges lightly rubbed; else a tight Very Good+ copy. Hardcover.

" A romance on the marriage of a man and with disease. ... Paolo Mantegazza (1831 – 1910) was a prominent Italian neurologist, physiologist and anthropologist, noted for the isolation of cocaine from coca leaves and his experimental investigation into its effects on the human psyche. He was also a writer of fiction." — Wikipedia. // Madeira Islands; Atlantic, Italian Literature, Atlantic Ocean Islands; Travel; Medicine; Darwinism; Cocaine