Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 748
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BELL, SIR CHARLES. A System of Dissections, explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body, the Manner of Displaying the Parts, and their Varieties in Disease. 30 etched plates after Bell. 8 parts in 2 volumes, bound in one. Folio, 430x270 mm, contemporary sheep, badly worn, covers detached; text toned, soiled, and offset, plates variously browned, institutional stamp on Volume 1 title; bookplate. Edinburgh: Mundell and Son for J. Johnson and Longman and Rees, 1799-1805

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"This was Bell's first independent venture as an author"--Garrison-Morton 402 (1798-1803 original edition). Russell (1963) 47 (this edition).