Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
GLISSON, FRANCIS. Anatomia hepatis. 2 folding engraved plates; 10 text illustrations. [48], 423, [18] pages, including etched additional title showing dissection scene. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, front joint cracked; old inscriptions imperfectly washed out of letterpress title. Amsterdam: apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizaeum Weyerstraten, 1665

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"First accurate description of the capsule of the liver (Glisson's capsule) and its blood-supply"--Garrison-Morton 972 (1654 London original edition). Krivatsy 4820.