Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 351

Price Realized: $ 115
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
DARESTE, CAMILLE. Recherches sur la Production Artificielle des Monstruosités; ou, Essais de Tératogénie Expérimentale . . . Deuxième Édition revue et augmentée. 16 lithographed plates. Large 8vo, original cloth, spine chipped at bottom, missing portion at top, front joint cracked; institutional stamp on title and verso of plates; bookplate. Paris, 1891

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"Dareste devoted his career to experimental teratology, and in this work established the field as a science. The second edition (1891) is greatly revised and enlarged. Contains a valuable history of experimental teratology"--Garrison-Morton 534.65. With the stamp of Abraham Jacobi (see note to lot 137).