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November 17, 2013 11:00 AMCalender
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Medical Books, Surgical Anatomy, Three Volumes, 1727-1802.

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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2687BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 17, 2013 11:00AM

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Medical Books, Surgical Anatomy, Three Volumes, 1727-1802.
James Drake's (1667-1707) Anthropologia Nova, or a New System of Anatomy, London: for W. and J. Innys, 1727, octavo, volume two only of two, bound with The Appendix to Dr. Drake's Anthropologia Nova, London: Innys, 1726; both works illustrated throughout, in contemporary boards and near-contemporary leather dust jacket, ex libris South Scituate physician Amory Gale (1800-1873) with his stamp and signature.
[with] George Smith's (distiller) Institutiones Chirurgicae, or Principles of Surgery, London: Lintot, 1732, octavo, ex libris Dr. Caleb Rea Jr., (1758-1796) physician of Topsfield, MA and Windham, ME, with his signature on the title page; in contemporary boards, contents rather clean with occasional spotting, title page and end leaves toned.
[and] Giovanni Veslingio's Tavole Anatomiche, Padua, 1802, quarto, illustrated with twenty-four full-page plates, bound in limp paper, worming, orangish stain to inner lower margins. (3)
Estimate $300-500


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James Drake, London, libris South Scituate physician, George Smith, Caleb Rea Jr., Windham, Maine, physician, Giovanni Veslingio