Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Engraved additional title, portrait of Vesalius, and 78 (of 82) engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar after the original Vesalian woodcut illustrations; lacks plates 43 and 76a-c. Half-title in first volume, not called for in second. 2 volumes. Folio, 390x256 mm, contemporary gilt-panelled mottled calf with large municipal arms of The Hague on covers, worn, joints cracked, cords intact, both volumes lack free endpapers; occasional toning or browning of text, few light stains on plate 59, the other plates generally quite clean. Bookplates of G. N. J. Sommer, M.D. Leiden: apud Joannem du Vivie et Joan. & Herm. Verbeek, 1725
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