Lot 231
Dentistry - Blake, Robert
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 January 2012 at 11:00 GMT
£688
Description
De dentium formatione et structura in homine et in variis animalibus. Edinburgh: Robert Allan, 1798. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed in ink on verso of the contents leaf Dr Horne with compts from the Author, disbound, preserved in green cloth clip case with green morocco label lettered gilt, leaves lightly browned
Footnote
Note: Rare. Menzies Campbell 47. Crowley 103. Pletti, p.27. Not in Weinberger. First edition, presentation copy. Robert Blake's Inaugural dissertation on the structure and formal of teeth in men and various animals, which was reprinted in Dublin in English in 1801.