Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CULLEN, WILLIAM. Lectures on the Materia Medica. viii, 512 pages. 4to, contemporary sheep, joints and cover corners worn, surface imperfections on covers; contents browned, front free endpaper lacking. Signatures of Chas. Taylor dated 1775 and Francis Dade dated 1810; modern owner's provenance notes on rear free endpaper. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1775

Additional Details

first american edition of a work originally published in 1773 in Edinburgh. Austin 577; Garrison-Morton 1838 note.