Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 1,820
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
GRAY, HENRY. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical. 363 wood-engraved illustrations after drawings by H. V. Carter. xxxii, 754, [2] pages, including half-title and final blank. 4to, 259x166 publisher's sheep with leather lettering piece, early owner's name lightly incised at top of front cover, small surface imperfection at top of rear joint; scattered minor foxing. Publisher's 80-page illustrated catalogue at end dated July 1859. Philadelphia, 1859

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first american edition. "The first edition of 1858 was found to have a good many errors, most of which were corrected in the 1859 edition"--Heirs of Hippocrates 1915; Garrison-Morton 418 note.