Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Medical College of Copenhagen.
Prodromus Praevertens Acta Medica Havniensia.

Copenhagen: [Typis Haeredum Berlingianorum excudebat Ludolph. Henr. Lillie], 1753.

Quarto, engraved vignette to title, two folding, and two full page engravings by Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode (1726-1757), a Danish artist and engraver of Estonian origin, plates depicting a set of conjoined twins; their hearts; a woman with a teratoma (a tumor containing hair and teeth); and what may be lice; bound in contemporary thin wooden boards, leather spine, boards covered in marbled paper, 7 1/2 x 6 in.