Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BAIER, JOHANN JACOB. Biographiae professorum medicinae qui in Academia Altorfina unquam vixerunt. 15 etched portraits. 4to, 202x165 mm, contemporary German red morocco gilt with emblem of Justice on front cover, gilt floral brocade pastedowns, spine faded and rubbed; contents clean. Nuremberg & Altdorf: heirs of Joseph Daniel Tauber, 1728

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first edition of an early work of its kind, a bio-bibliography of the medical faculty at Altdorf, where the author was professor of physiology and surgery. Pages 147-76 deal with his own life and writings. Breslauer sale 37 (this copy).