Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
BELL, SIR CHARLES. Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery, Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism, and Lithotomy. 20 etched plates after Bell, all but 3 hand-colored. Oblong folio, publisher's 1/4 morocco with morocco front cover label, top of spine damaged, front joint cracked, cover corners worn through; scattered foxing on text leaves, some plates lightly offset. Bookplate of G. N. J. Sommer, M.D. London, 1821 [some plates watermarked 1845]

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first edition in book form,