Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 281

Price Realized: $ 459
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
HEISTER, LORENZ. Chirurgie. 29 engraved plates, most folding, showing surgical instruments and procedures. [24], 896, [24] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of Heister (loose). 4to, contemporary vellum, discolored and worn, spine damaged; contents dampstained and foxed, clean tear across part of 3L2 and all of 3L3, clean tear in plate 8, repaired clean tears in plates 23 and 24. Frankfurt & Augsburg: widow of Matthias Wolff, 1739

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Later edition of the most popular 18th-century surgical textbook. Garrison-Morton 5576 (1718 original edition).