Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Bibliotheca Osleriana. A Catalogue of Books illustrating the History of Medicine and Science. Collected, Arranged, and Annotated by Sir William Osler, Bt. 4to, original cloth, slightly rubbed and shaken, spine faded; bookseller's catalogue description tipped to front free endpaper. Oxford, 1929

Additional Details

first edition, limited to 761 copies, this copy for presentation, with publisher's slip mounted on front pastedown stating: "the first hundred copies of this Catalogue, in accordance with the late Lady Osler's wishes, are sent to those friends and libraries whose names she herself indicated." Garrison-Morton 6272; Golden & Roland 1073 (according to whom 150 copies were distributed gratis); Norman 1618.