Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BUCK, GURDON. Contributions to Reparative Surgery. 86 wood-engraved illustrations after pre- and post-operative photographs taken by Buck. 237 pages. Publisher's 32-page catalogue at end dated 1876. 8vo, 223x146 mm, original cloth, worn, spine ends and cover corners frayed, rear hinge cracked; contents toned with marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, second leaf of preface torn in lower outer corner with text loss, blank lower outer corner off contents leaf, repaired clean tears in one other leaf (pages 43-44). New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876

Additional Details

first edition of the first American book devoted entirely to reconstructive surgery. Burns, Early Medical Photography in America, page 1936; Garrison-Morton 5754.1; Rutkow GS83 ("scarce volume").