Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 367

Price Realized: $ 2,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
RAYER, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS-OLIVE. Traité des Maladies des Reins. atlas volume only. 60 stipple-engraved plates, partly printed in color and hand-finished. Folio, approximately 584x420 mm, contemporary 1/2 leather gilt, missing lower portion of spine, book block loose and split in half; text leaves foxed, plates generally clean, paper crack along inner plate mark on plate 1, institutional release stamp on title and dedication leaf. Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1837

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first edition. Garrison-Morton 4208 ("spectacular color-plate atlas"); Heirs of Hippocrates 1505 note ("a major contribution to the understanding of kidney diseases").