Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(ANESTHESIA.) Rice, Nathan P. Trials of a Public Benefactor, as illustrated in the Discovery of Etherization. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 2 plates. 12mo, original cloth, spine ends worn, gilt lettering dulled; scattered foxing, later 19th-century owner's full-page inscription on front pastedown. Tipped in is a letterpress handbill circa 1868 or later with the text of the epitaph on Morton's tomb. New York, 1859

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