Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(OTTO, JOHN CONRAD.) The Medical Repository . . . Vol. VI. 3 engraved plates. [16], 474, [10] pages, including final blank. 8vo, contemporary tree sheep gilt, joints and cover edges rubbed; contents browned. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1803

Additional Details

Pages 1-4 contain Otto's An Account of an Haemorrhagic Disposition existing in Certain Families, "the first definitive clinical diagnosis of hemophilia . . . one of the earliest significant American contributions to medical science" (Norman). Austin 1257; Garrison-Morton 3054; Norman 1620.