Lot 212
Osteology.- Havers (Clopton) Osteologia Nova, or Some New Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them, with the Manner of their Accretion and Nutrition, first edition, 1691.
Hammer Price: £2,200
Description
Osteology.- Havers (Clopton) Osteologia Nova, or Some New Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them, with the Manner of their Accretion and Nutrition, first edition, 2 engraved plates (one folding with some light wear along fold), imprimatur f. before title, advertisement f. at rear, title a little soiled, last f. foxed, minor worming to foot of inner margin, contemporary calf, rebacked, retaining part of original backstrip, [Garrison-Morton 387; Norman 1024; Wellcome III p.225; Wing H1162], 8vo, for Samuel Smith, at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1691.
⁂ First edition of the first complete and systematic study of the structure of bones. This work also included the first account of the vascular canals of long bones that now bear the author's name.
Description
Osteology.- Havers (Clopton) Osteologia Nova, or Some New Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them, with the Manner of their Accretion and Nutrition, first edition, 2 engraved plates (one folding with some light wear along fold), imprimatur f. before title, advertisement f. at rear, title a little soiled, last f. foxed, minor worming to foot of inner margin, contemporary calf, rebacked, retaining part of original backstrip, [Garrison-Morton 387; Norman 1024; Wellcome III p.225; Wing H1162], 8vo, for Samuel Smith, at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1691.
⁂ First edition of the first complete and systematic study of the structure of bones. This work also included the first account of the vascular canals of long bones that now bear the author's name.