Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 323

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[ROSS, ALEXANDER.] Arcana Microcosmi; or, The hid Secrets of Man's Body discovered; in an Anatomical Duel between Aristotle and Galen concerning the Parts thereof . . . With a Refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar Errors, the Lord Bacon's Natural History, and Doctor Harvy's Book De Generatione . . . and Others. [16], 207, [5], 209-267, [8] pages. 8vo, early 19th-century calf, front cover detached; title soiled, with institutional stamp, owner's ink annotations on verso; bookplate. London: Tho. Newcomb for John Clark, 1652

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Second edition of a work first published the preceding year, and first edition to include the attack on Harvey. Krivatsy 9951; Russell (1963) 728; Wing R1947.