Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
COLLINS, SAMUEL. A System of Anatomy, treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants. Bound volume containing engraved frontispiece portrait (torn at bottom and mounted); letterpress title (heavily soiled and abraded, and mounted); and 73 engraved plates (dampstained in upper outer corners throughout); lacks the text. Folio, early 19th-century marbled boards, modern crude leather back, front joint cracked. With several engraved anatomical and zoological plates from unidentified works bound in. London: Thomas Newcomb, 1685

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first edition.