Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 337

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
HAVERS, CLOPTON. Osteologia Nova; or, Some New Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them; with the Manner of their Accretion and Nutrition. 2 folding engraved plates. [16], 293, [3] pages, including initial imprimatur leaf and 3 pages of ads at end. 8vo, 181x114 mm, contemporary calf, spine cracked, missing portions at top and bottom, with gilt shelf number, front cover, free endpaper, and imprimatur leaf detached; contents clean. Bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries with release stamps, Crerar Library perforated stamp on title. London: W. Innys, 1729

Additional Details

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