230 - Somis, Ignazio. A Discourse on the Event That Occurred in Bergemoletto, in Which Three Women, Buried Amid the Ruins of a Barn by a Massive Avalanche, Were Found Alive After Thirty-Seven Days. Turin, Royal Printing Office, 175; a copy of this first edition bound in sheepskin with excellent provenance

Somis, Ignazio. A Discourse on the Event That Occurred in Bergemoletto, in Which Three Women, Buried Amid the Ruins of a Barn by a Massive Avalanche, Were Found Alive After Thirty-Seven Days. Turin, Royal Printing Office, 175; a copy of this first edition bound in sheepskin with excellent provenance Somis, Ignazio. Reflections on the Incident in Bergemoletto, in Which Three Women, Buried Amid the Ruins of a Barn by a Massive Avalanche, Were Found Alive After Thirty-Seven Days. Turin, Royal Printing House, 1758. Quarto (240 x 180 mm); [8], 165, [1] pages. Frontispiece vignette depicting the barn buried under snow, 2 title pages—one featuring an oval portrait of King Carlo Emanuele, to whom the work is dedicated—2 illustrated initials, and 2 folded copperplate engravings (slight, uniform oxidation of the paper.) 19th-century binding in cardboard lined “alla bodoniana.” Handwritten note by Leonardo Trissino. Account of the avalanche that destroyed Bergemoletto in the Stura Valley on March 19, 1755, burying three women who survived for a long time under extreme conditions. Of particular interest for its description of psychological disturbances now attributed to post-traumatic stress disorder. An uncut copy of this first edition with an excellent provenance