Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 618
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
HUFELAND, CHRISTOPH WILHELM. Die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern. Stipple-engraved allegorical frontispiece by G. F. Stoelzel. xvi, 696 pages. 8vo, 198x118 mm, contemporary 1/2 speckled calf gilt, spine ends chipped, cover edges worn through; contents browned. Bookplate of Marcus Crahan. Jena: in der akademischen Buchhandlung, 1797

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first edition of a treatise on longevity titled Makrobiotik in later editions. 'It had a profound influence on the health practices of the day and many of his concepts are still followed"--Heirs of Hippocrates 1183. Garrison-Morton 1602.