Dec 09, 2003 - Sale 1989

Sale 1989 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD.) The Horse in Motion, As Shown by Instantaneous Photograph, with A Study on Animal Mechanics. By J. D. B. Stillman. With 107 illustrations including 105 drawings of horse anatomy and pacing, and 2 heliotypes showing the arrangement of cameras. Large 4to, gilt-pictorial brown cloth, front cover scuffed, joint starting; bookplate; light foxing on the preliminaries. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882

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the controversial publication that led to muybridge's financially ruinous suits