Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(DAUMIER, HONORÉ.) Fabre, François. Némésis Médicale Illustrée. 30 wood-engraved text illustrations and numerous head- and tailpieces by various artists after Daumier. Half-titles. 2 volumes in one. Large 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, flat spine gilt in romantic style, joints rubbed; scattered foxing, 2 preliminaries bound out of order in first volume. Paris, 1840
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first edition of a verse satire on the French medical system, " . . . one of the ranking illustrated books of the period" (Ray). Vicaire III, 641-42; Heirs of Hippocrates 1575; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 217.