Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 447

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
THE INVENTION OF THE STETHOSCOPE LAENNEC, RENÉ-THÉOPHILE-HYACINTHE. De l'Auscultation Médiate; ou, Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur. 8 engraved plates on 4 folding leaves. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 211x134 mm, 19th-century 3/4 morocco with original wrappers bound in (including slip advertising Laennec's stethoscope on Volume 1 front wrapper), joints badly worn and cracked or starting, Volume 2 spine missing portion at top; scattered foxing, few text gatherings browned. wide-margined set, with plate borders and margins intact. Paris, 1819

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first edition.