Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 1,592
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LODER, JUSTUS CHRISTIAN. Tabulae anatomicae quas ad illustrandam humani corporis fabricam. 192 engraved plates (including 10 outline duplicates), approximately 20 of them with partial hand-coloring; without the portrait of Loder found in some copies. 2 volumes. Folio, 422x272 mm, contemporary sheep, worn, Volume 2 spine defective at top; text volume contents toned, light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end of plate volume, some plates foxed, pencil and occasional ink marginalia on around a quarter of the plates, outer corners off plate 5, blank outer margin of plate 24 excised, clean tear in plate 76, ink annotations on plate 91, with outline duplicate loose, clean tear across plate 126. Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1803

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"Loder''s Tabulae anatomicae is a compilation of the best illustrations and representations of anatomy available at the time. Of the 1,434 figures included, 1,122 are copies drawn from the works of Albinus, John Hunter, Cheselden, Monro, Scarpa, Sandifort, and others . . . This massive gathering is one of the most beautiful anatomical works of the nineteenth century"--Heirs of Hippocrates 1119. Choulant-Frank, pages 325-26.