Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
RAYER, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS-OLIVE. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin. 40 hand-colored lithographed plates. 494, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 4to, 315x252 mm, publisher's sheep, spine and extremities worn, joints cracked, cords intact; heavy foxing on endpapers and text leaves marginally affecting plates, dampstain in upper outer corners toward end. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845

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first american edition. "A classical summary of dermatological literature of the period"--Garrison-Morton 3989 (1826-27 original edition in French).