05-31-201405-31-2014
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2730BBoston
May 31, 2014 11:00 AMCalender
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Medical Books, 18th Century, Three Titles in Four Volumes.

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$738$600
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2730BLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 31, 2014 11:00AM

Description:

Medical Books, 18th Century, Three Titles in Four Volumes. Including Jean-Baptiste Sénac's (1693-1770) Traite de la Structure du Coeur, Paris: Briasson, 1749, in two quarto volumes, contemporary speckled calfskin, illustrated with seventeen folding plates at the end of volume one; volume two with water stains, damage to the back board, affecting contents, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.
Daniel Le Clerc's (1652-1728) Histoire de la Medecine, The Hague: Isaac van der Kloot, 1729, quarto added engraved title, typographical title page printed in red and black, three parts in one volume, with folding genealogy of physicians and engraved portraits, bound in full contemporary calf, spine tooled in gold, with the original label, somewhat worn, joints cracking, contents browned, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.
[and] Johann Heinrich Schulze's (1687-1744) Historiae Medicinae, Leipzig: Monath, 1728, quarto, in boards, edges untrimmed throughout, 8 1/2 x 7 in. (4)
Estimate $600-800


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Keywords

Paris, Daniel Le Clerc, Isaac van der Kloot, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Leipzig