Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 321

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
COOPER, ASTLEY PASTON, Sir. On the Anatomy of the Breast. vii, [1], 193, [65] pages. With atlas containing 3 letterpress divisional titles and 27 lithographed plates, including 12 fully or partly hand-colored. Together, 2 volumes. Text volume 4to, 320x250 mm, atlas folio, 378x273 mm, both in 20th-century buckram with institutional markings; large light stain on title and scattered marginalia in text volume, original front cover label mounted on first divisional title in atlas, some plates chipped or torn and repaired. Bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries on front pastedowns with release stamps, Crerar Library perforated stamp on titles and rubberstamp on verso of plates. London: Longman, Orme, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1840

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first edition of an anatomical sequel to Cooper's 1829 Illustrations of the Diseases of the Breast. Garrison-Morton 5769.1.