Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BILHARZ,THEODOR. Das electrische Organ des Zitterwelses. 4 tinted lithographed plates. vi, [2], 52 pages. Folio, modern buckram with original front and rear wrappers laid down. Leipzig, 1857
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first edition. Though best known for his discovery of the parasitic disease named for him, "Bilharz never considered this . . . as important as the work he did on the electrical organ of the thunderfish" (DSB). Nissen ZBI 365.