Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 2,185
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MONRO, ALEXANDER. Traité d'Ostéologie. 62 engraved plates, 31 of them duplicates in outline. [4], xxxii, 212, [2], 213-317 pages, including engraved allegorical frontispiece. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 530x400 mm, 18th-century tree sheep gilt, short crack at bottom of front joint, minor surface wear on covers, corners bumped or worn through; minor soiling on first title, occasional light toning of text leaves, plates clean. Armorial bookplate of the Montpellier physician Louis-Marie Guyton (b. 1784). Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1759

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first edition in french and first illustrated edition