Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 75
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
HAVERS, CLOPTON. Novae quaedam observationes de ossibus. Latin translation by Johann Friedrich Schreiber. 4 folding engraved plates. 8, [2], 411, [38] pages, including 2 leaves of errata at end. 8vo, 168x104 mm, contemporary 1/4 red-dyed vellum with chipped 20th-century paper lettering piece; title soiled, following preliminaries toned, errata leaves browned, contents otherwise clean; uncut. Bookplate of Richard N. Wegner. Leiden: Georg Wishoff, 1734

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"The first complete and systematic study of the structure of the bones"--Norman 1024 (1691 original edition in English). Garrison-Morton 387.