May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BELL, CHARLES, Sir. A Dissertation on Gun-Shot Wounds. 13 etched plates by Bell on 7 leaves; 4 etched text illustrations. 69, [1] pages. 8vo, 241x152 mm, modern 1/4 calf; some light offsetting and foxing on plates, dampstain in gutter of first plate, unobtrusive institutional stamp on title and recto of plates. London, 1814

Additional Details

first separate edition of an addendum to the 1814 second edition of Bell's System of Operative Surgery, issued " . . . for the accommodation of the purchasers of the former edition" (publisher's note on title verso).