CHESELDEN WILLIAM Osteographia; or The Anatomy of the Bones

Sale 1979 - Lot 78

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CHESELDEN ON BONES CHESELDEN, WILLIAM. Osteographia; or, The Anatomy of the Bones. 2 series of 56 engraved plates each, the first series with letterpress text on verso. [28] preliminary leaves, including engraved frontispiece, title with royal arms on verso, dedication with deer skeleton on verso, and 10 full-page illustrations and 20 vignettes of animal skeletons. Folio, 504x350 mm, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked with morocco; contents toned, scattered pencil annotations on plates, several plates browned, frontispiece, title, and verso of last plate lightly soiled, blank lower outer corner off plate 54 in first series, blank lower inner corner of plate 56 in second series torn and restored. London, 1733

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first edition. one of 400 copies.