Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BEAUMONT, WILLIAM. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. Wood-engraved text illustrations. 280 pages. 8vo, 223x135 mm, original 1/4 cloth with paper lettering piece, covers soiled, stained, and detached; foxing throughout, dampstaining in outer corners of opening leaves, later pencil signature on title, pastedowns browned; cloth folding case. Plattsburgh: F. P. Allen, 1833

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first edition of the first accurate scientific study of the process of gastric digestion. Norman 152. Garrison-Morton 989; Rutkow GS9.