Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BAER, KARL ERNST VON. Untersuchungen ueber die Gefaessverbindung zwischen Mutter und Frucht in den Saeugethieren. Hand-colored engraved plate after drawings by the author. [8], 30 pages, including half-title. Folio, 445x303 mm, original(?) cloth with full-size front cover label, worn, spine imperfect; title heavily foxed, scattered foxing elsewhere, plate toned and offset, split between gatherings 6 and 7. Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1828

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first edition of a study of mammalian placental physiology. Later known for his work in anthropology and natural history, Baer made important contributions to embryology at the beginning of his scientific career.