Sold for:
$344
$344
Nuremberg: Johann Adam Stein and Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1747. 4to, full calf, engraved frontispiece portrait. With 38 folding engraved plates of surgical instruments. "Heister was the founder of scientific surgery in Germany. His book ... was the most popular surgical text of the eighteenth-century." (Garrison-Morton) Light rubbing to boards; a few plates frayed along the fore edge; manuscript ex-libris to title page.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-04-10
