WINKLER'S GROSSES ANATOMISCHES MUSEUM
by Winkler, J[ulius]
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
[S.l.]: A. Friedländer, lithographer, [ca. 1880s]. First Edition. Broadside. Very good. Advertising card, 11.5 x 8.6 cm., pictorical color lithograph on recto, text on verso. Light wear, staining and light scuffing on verso, evidently from early adhesive. Very good.
Chromolithographic card promoting the anatomical museum of Julius Winkler in Leipzig, featuring a centerpiece of an anatomical theater (mid-dissection), surrounded by images of jarred fetuses, a pair of conjoined twins, a sword swallower with an opened torso, and various surgeries and anatomical preparations. The verso describes a collection of more than 1000 pieces in areas of anatomy, embrology, pathology, surgery, and hygiene, including new exhibitions of "life-size bodies" depicting various epidemics, an "unsolved puzzle" and a "wandering corpse."
Printed by Adolph Friedländer (1851-1904), the great Hamburg-based lithographer and publisher of posters of circuses and other entertainments.
OCLC locates no copies. Rare.
Chromolithographic card promoting the anatomical museum of Julius Winkler in Leipzig, featuring a centerpiece of an anatomical theater (mid-dissection), surrounded by images of jarred fetuses, a pair of conjoined twins, a sword swallower with an opened torso, and various surgeries and anatomical preparations. The verso describes a collection of more than 1000 pieces in areas of anatomy, embrology, pathology, surgery, and hygiene, including new exhibitions of "life-size bodies" depicting various epidemics, an "unsolved puzzle" and a "wandering corpse."
Printed by Adolph Friedländer (1851-1904), the great Hamburg-based lithographer and publisher of posters of circuses and other entertainments.
OCLC locates no copies. Rare.
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Details
- Seller
- W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1067
- Title
- WINKLER'S GROSSES ANATOMISCHES MUSEUM
- Author
- Winkler, J[ulius]
- Format/Binding
- Broadside
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A. Friedländer, lithographer
- Place of Publication
- [S.l.]
- Date Published
- [ca. 1880s]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- collection, exhibition, cabinet of curiosities, Wunderkammer, anatomical cabinet, museum, science, medicine, anatomy, illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine; Science; Collections & Exhibitions;
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W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera
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Brooklyn, New York
About W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera
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