Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[MEDICINE]. SUE, Jean?Joseph (1710?1792). Anthropotomie, ou l?art d?injecter, de diss?quer, d?embaumer? Paris: P.G. Cavelier, 1765. 12mo (171 x 95 mm). Contemporary French mottled calf, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, leather lettering?piece gilt in second compartment, remainder gilt tooled, marbled edges (upper cover partially detached, bands protruding, front blank sprung). Provenance: Edgar Goldschmid (1881?1957), book label of a German physician, pathologist and historian of medicine. He was known for his extensive medical library. SECOND EDITION. A work on dissection and embalming originally published in 1750.