Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 231

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
WENZEL, JOSEPH and CARL. Über die schwammigen Auswüchse auf der äussern Hirnhaut. 6 engraved plates. xx, [2], 138 pages. Folio, 262x240 mm, original drab wrappers, worn, portions of backstrip missing, rear joint cracked, covers and contents dog-eared; marginal foxing on opening leaves, light foxing on plates; uncut. Mainz: Florian Kupferberg, 1810

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first edition of an early study of meningeal tumors. Heirs of Hippocrates 1217; not noted in the historical introduction to Cushing & Eisenhardt's Meningiomas.