Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
QUAIN, JONES; and WILSON, WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS, Sir. The Nerves of the Human Body: including the Brain and Spinal Marrow, and Organs of the Sense. * The Viscera of the Human Body; including the Organs of Digestion, Respiration, Secretion, and Excretion. Together, 2 volumes in one, with 38 and 32 uncolored lithographed plates, respectively. Folio, 502x311 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf, rebacked; plates variously foxed, with 2 small pieces excised from bottom of plate 28 in first volume, vertical crease in first title. S. Saxon Barton bookplate. London, 1839; 1840

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first edition of Volumes 2 and 3 of Quain and Wilson's 5-volume Series of Anatomical Plates. Heirs of Hippocrates 1550 ("ranks with the best nineteenth-century representations").