Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BELL, CHARLES, Sir. The Anatomy of the Brain, explained in a Series of Engravings. 12 stipple-engraved plates, all but the second to last hand-colored. vii, [1], 87 pages * A Series of Engravings explaining the Course of the Nerves. 9 etched plates after Bell, including 3 folding. [4], 49 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 calf gilt, covers detached; scattered foxing in first work marginally affecting some plates, varying but occasionally heavy browning through most of second work. London: T. N. Longman et al., 1802; 1803

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first editions. Heirs of Hippocrates 1297 ("probably Bell's most beautiful work on neuroanatomy and one of the most beautifully illustrated in the entire literature"), 1298; Norman 168, 169.