Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
Opera omnia. Edited by Mark Akenside. Engraved frontispiece portrait (browned, offsetting onto title); plate. [8], xxxviii, [2], 673 pages, including errata leaf. 4to, mid-19th-century calf gilt, front cover stamped "St. George's Hospital / Medical School / Mr. J. Earle / Midwifery Prize / Session 1849-50," rebacked retaining original backstrip; contents toned, with some foxing. (London: William Bowyer), 1766

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Second collected edition in Latin. Heirs of Hippocrates 444; Keynes 47; Russell 386. With the bookplate of the English quaker physician and philanthropist John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815).