Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 720
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LIZARS, JOHN. A System of Anatomical Plates. atlas volume only. Uncolored engraved title and 103 hand-colored plates. 3 leaves of letterpress text. Folio, 440x268 mm, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; preliminaries foxed, marginal soiling on title, mostly minor fingersoiling on plates, small stain in outer margin of last few plates. Edinburgh, [1822-26?]
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"Although it contains no new discoveries, this superb atlas is certainly one of the most elegant works of the nineteenth century"--Heirs of Hippocrates 1436 (another edition circa 1840).