Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEDICINE.) Rose, Peter. A catalogue by an important early surgical instrument manufacturer. 3 pages, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, on one folding sheet; separation along one fold, trimmed at several intersections of folds with minimal loss of text, address corrected in early manuscript. [New York: James Van Norden, 1832]

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Includes a testimonial by influential surgeon Valentine Mott. "The most gifted and versatile of early American surgical instrument makers"--Rutkow, "Peter Rose and the Early American Surgical Instrument Trade," in Archives of Surgery 133 (February 1998).