Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HEISTER, LORENZ. The General System of Surgery . . . Eighth Edition. 40 engraved plates of surgical instruments and procedures. xvi, 456; [2], 414 pages. 2 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked; scattered foxing variously affecting some plates, repaired clean tear in last plate. 19th-century bookplate of S. B. Anderton, "Surgeon &c." London: J. Whiston et al., 1768

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