23rd Nov, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2092
Bell (Charles).
Illustrations of The Great Operations of Surgery, Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism, and Lithotomy.
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821, oblong folio, viii, 134 pages, twenty engraved plates (seventeen with full or partial hand-colouring), creasing and tear to top edge of endpaper, title page and preliminaries, lower edge of B2, loss to lower margin corner of G3, dust-marking and some light foxing throughout, hinge broken after title page, worn quarter leather binding with tear to cloth, leather gilt label to upper board.
Sold for £750
Estimated at £300 - £500
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Nov, 2022
Highlights include a collection of Opera scores and books from the Library of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, and two first edition Harry Potter books. Also included are early antiquarian books, modern first editions, illustrations, manuscripts, maps, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents.
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