Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
RUTTY, WILLIAM. A Treatise of the Urinary Passages. 4 etched plates. [6] (of [8]), 54, [6] pages, including final ad leaf; lacks half-title. 4to, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, spine ends rubbed; endpapers foxed, contents otherwise generally clean. Contemporary booklabel and signature of James Paston, M.D. London: Tho. Worrall, 1726

Additional Details

scarce first edition of Rutty's Gulstonian lectures at the Royal College of Physicians on the anatomy and diseases of the urinary organs, concluding with descriptions of a case of calcified concretions in the cecum giving rise to symptoms resembling renal colic, and a case of double renal calculus. No copy has ever been listed in American Book Prices Current.