Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Hunter, William (1718-1783)
Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi.

Birmingham: Baskerville, 1774.



First edition, oversized folio, illustrated with thirty-four plates, badly toned with strong edge-staining, leaves detached, in later half-buckram, title toned and dusty, most fore-edges with closed tears, some paper damage repaired, the largest book printed by Baskerville, binding structurally compromised, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.

Choulant-Frank, pp. 296-297; Garrison-Morton 6157; Gaskell 53; Heirs of Hippocrates 942; Norman 1125; Osler 3026; Waller 5004; Wellcome III, p. 319.