Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 250
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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
BARTHOLIN, THOMAS. Historiarum anatomicarum rariorum centuria I et II [III et IV]. 14 (of 15) engraved plates; lacks plate in second volume. [16], 360, [8]; [8], 430, [8], 45, [2] pages. Together, 2 (of 3) volumes. 8vo, 147x85 mm, 18th-century 1/2 sheep gilt; contents browned. Copenhagen: Petrus Hakius for Petrus Hauboldus, 1654-57

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first edition. The third volume appeared in 1661. "The present set of anatomical observations . . . contains descriptions and illustrations of anatomical anomalies and normal structures, together with some brief case histories of unusual anatomical and clinical structures"--Heirs of Hippocrates 512. Krivatsy 831.