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Bayeux Enchères

195 - [MEDICINE]

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Estimation

€150 - 250

Sale fees

24%

[MEDICINE] Celsius |CELSE] A. Corn. Celsi. De medicina libri octo (…). Lugduni Batav, Joh. Elsevirium, 1657, 1 vol. in-16 (24–558 pp., (2) pp.), illustrated with an engraved title page. First Elzevier edition. Later 18th-century red plain morocco binding, spine with decorated faux raised bands, gilt edges. Slight rubbing but otherwise in excellent condition; copy adorned with several Koranic maxims in Arabic (formerly handwritten) on the endpapers. Handwritten bookplates: “Pecquet Doct. Med,” “Mercier, Doctor of Medicine from Paris.” Bookplate stamp (on the reverse of the title page): “Ex biblioth Regia Berolinensi.”

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Auction details

Antique and modern books, manuscripts, autographs, illustrated books, posters
Saturday, November 21
02:00 PM
14, boulevard Eindhoven
14400 Bayeux, France

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Bayeux Enchères +33 2 31 92 04 47 info@bayeuxencheres.fr
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 25,000 lots published

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