Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
HIRST, BARTON COOKE; and PIERSON, GEORGE ARTHUR. Human Monstrosities. 39 photographic plates; 111 text illustrations. 4 volumes. Folio, 20th-century buckram with institutional markings, sizes (422x320 mm and smaller) and bindings not uniform; occasional marginal soiling, some text leaves chipped along edges. Bookplates of the John Crerar and University of Chicago Libraries with release stamps, Crerar Library perforated stamp on titles and rubberstamp on verso of plates. Philadelphia, 1891-93

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first edition. "The first large work on the subject illustrated primarily by photographs"--Garrison-Morton 534.68.