May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD.)
The Horse in Motion, As Shown by Instantaneous Photography, 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. Small folio, gilt-lettered pictorial brown cloth, lightly worn; front hinge cracked and inexpertly reinforced at front pastedown; contents clean and bright. first edition.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882