Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ZINN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED. Descriptio anatomica oculi humani. 7 folding engraved plates. [16], 248 pages. 4to, 214x175 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked at an early date, endpapers renewed, spine worn, chipped at top, front cover detached; scattered foxing, minimally affecting plates. Unobtrusive stamp of Birmingham Medical Institute on spine, title, and recto of plates. Göttingen: widow of B. Abraham Vandenhoeck, 1780

Additional Details

Becker 426 ("landmark work on the anatomy of the eye"); Garrison-Morton 1484 (both citing the 1755 original edition).