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Wednesday 18 October 2023, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Medicina - Anatomia - Mascagni, Paolo

Universal anatomy [...] represented with copper plates reduced to smaller forms than those of the great Pisan edition by Antonio Serantoni, 1833

Estimate

€ 350 - 500

Sold

€ 490

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

[Florence, Batelli, 1833]. In 2nd. With 150 leaves of plates engraved in black and white by Antonio Serantoni, small circular dry stamp at the bottom of the plates, the first two leaves including the title page are missing, and the reverse of the third leaf, several restorations, foxing, halo in the lower corner exterior, later half-leather binding with corners, author and title embossed in gold on the plates and spine, 5-ring spine with gold friezes, very slight defects.

Specialist Notes

A spectacular encyclopedic work on human anatomy, Serantoni's accurate engravings have long been a beacon for anatomical pictorial studies in the 19th century.

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