Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 175
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
ZACCHIA, PAOLO. Quaestiones medico-legales. [16], 442; [2], 443-784, [62]; [8], 254, [44] pages, including half-title. 3 volumes in one. Folio, 353x214 mm, contemporary calf over wooden boards with metal catches and clasps, worn, top of spine chipped; varying foxing or browning, occasional dampstaining in upper margins. 19th-century stamp of the Benedictine monastery of Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Nuremberg: Johann Georg Lochner, 1726

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"Cornerstone of legal medicine . . . Cites most related literature from Hippocrates on. First systematic compilation of medical expert opinions"--Nemec 1594 (1651 edition). Garrison-Morton 1720 (1621-61 original edition).