Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 307

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. 40 engraved plates after Jan Wandelaar, including 12 outline duplicates. [47] leaves. Folio, 659x528 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 leather, badly worn, lacking backstrip, covers detached; mostly marginal foxing, soiling, and minor stains, vertical crease in some text leaves and plates, Rush Medical College Library stamp on title and 2 other text leaves, marginal repaired clean tear in text leaf to plate 2, marginal repairs on plate 3/1 not affecting image, stains in upper margin of text leaf to plate 11. London: H. Woodfall for John and Paul Knapton, 1749

Additional Details

first london edition of Albinus's chief work, "among the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases" (Norman), originally published in Leiden in 1747. Russell 5 (this edition); Choulant-Frank, page 281; Garrison-Morton 399; Norman 29 (original edition).