Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 314

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BIDLOO, GOVERT. Anatomia humani corporis. Engraved portrait of Bidloo and 105 anatomical plates after Gerard de Lairesse, including 2 folding. [68] leaves, including engraved allegorical additional title. Folio, 503x353 mm, contemporary gilt-panelled red morocco, top and bottom spine compartments damaged; marginal foxing and soiling through most of volume, occasional offsetting from plates, small stain in blank area of letterpress title, plate 10 torn and repaired on verso, separated at fold and partly creased, small stains on plates 46, 49, and 63. Rush Medical College Library bookplate on front pastedown, their stamp on verso of additional title and portrait, recto of letterpress title, and a few text leaves. Amsterdam: widow of Joannes à Someren et al., 1685

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first edition. Choulant-Frank, pages 250-52; Garrison-Morton 385; Norman 231 ("one of the finest atlases of the Baroque period").