May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
RICHTER, ADOLPH LEOPOLD. 40 lithographirte Tafeln nebst Erklärung und Erläuterung derselben, zu dem theoretisch-praktischen Handbuche der Lehre von den Brüchen und Verrenkungen der Knochen. 40 lithographed plates. Letterpress title and 8 leaves of explanatory text numbered in 32 columns. Oblong folio, contemporary paste-paper boards, spine ends and cover edges worn; title creased, with light soiling and embossed stamp, contents otherwise clean, free endpapers lacking; bookplates. Berlin, 1828

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first edition. atlas volume only to Richter's work of the same year on the treatment of fractures and dislocations. "The remarkable atlas illustrates . . . all of the various types of dressings, splints, and apparatus used in the treatment of fractures at the time"--Garrison-Morton 4414.1.