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Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Second Edition" stated (same year as the first.) "Very good" with board corners poking through and curved in. With lovely hand-drawn illustrations, many of them protected by partial tissue guards. Illustrated by the author. With comparisons to animal anatomy. 314 pp. including Appendix. Reduced from $157.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition. Hard cover published by William Pickering in 1833. Calf leather covers with gilt borders, and five raised bands and rich gilt decorations on spine. Upper corners of covers are bumped and worn, with splitting of the leather and some fraying, and bottom corners are bumped some, with some rubbing. Upper end of spine is missing some of the leather and has some tears down the edges. Page edges and endpapers are marbled. Pages in first and last parts of book have some tanning, and verso of front endpaper has some writing in pencil at top. Book is in good condition. 8vo, 314 pages, 1.3 lb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: Second edition, revised. Royal 8vo (22 x 14.5cm). pp. xvi,314. Contemporary half morocco,gilt,a little rubbed, teg. The free-endpapers foxed, just touching onto the half-title & final leaf, but otherwise clean & fresh. Vg. [Heirs of Hippocrates 1308; Keynes 52; BM(NH) 128; Wellcome II, 136]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of one of the greatest classics on the hand, written as part of the Bridgewater Treatises series. 8vo. xv, 288pp. Contemporary calf, richly gilt spine and borders, a little rubbed. Front board detached. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Discusses anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, comparative anatomy of the hand, its utility and adaptive importance, substitution of other organs for hand, the sense of touch, kinesthetics, et cetera. Gordon-Taylor 56.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stippled black leather with, gilt bordered panel ridges, gilt on black label 'Bell on the Hand', all extremities rubbed to varying degree from moderate to slight, otherwise clean and unworn. Marbled end-papers and top edge gilt. xvi + 314, approx 45 text engravings (these un-numbered and unlisted); numerous foxing spots to inner sides of end-papers, front blank fly and rear blank (v. slightly affecting final page), otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Although a 2nd (unaltered) edition was issued later the same year this is clearly marked as such. 13.5 cm x 22 cm
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: pp. xvi, 314. Numerous text wood engravings by Bell and an 8pp. Catalogue bound in at the front [dated July 1833]. Original blue glazed cloth, new spine and label, occasional foxing, ex-libris Anatomy School, Cambridge with usual marks of provenance, a very good copy. *A classic in comparative anatomy and a foundation work in bio-mechanics, published as the fourth Bridgewater Treatise. See HEIRS OF HIPPOCRATES #788; GARRISON-MORTON #411.1
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$333.02 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine leather binding with texture leather boards with decorated impressed borders, spine with impressed decorated panel with gilt on black title label ' The Hand' and gilt on red author label 'Bell', gilt deckled edges, no significant faults - a couple of small darkish spots to back, a few suggestions of edge-rubbing being about it. Rear end-paper has very small label of bookbinder 'Dd.Batten' of Clapham Common which looks early enough to rule out a recent re-bind. Marbled end-papers and edges. xvi + 314, approx 45 text engravings (these un-numbered and unlisted); internally clean, tight and quite unmarked, no tanning or foxing. Although a 2nd (unaltered) edition was issued later the same year this was clearly marked as such. 13.5 cm x 22 cm
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Bell, Sir Charles. THE HAND. William Pickering, London, 1833.
Price: US$397.02 + shipping
Description: Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design. Pp. xvi+314, text illustrations, publisher's device on title page, appendix; demy 8vo; full calf, spine decorated in gilt around raised bands, with gilt lettered red leather title label, the boards with double gilt rule border and gilt edges, slightly rubbed; marbled edges and matching endpapers, dentelles decorated in blind; ribbon marker; upper hinge tender; William Pickering, London, 1833. Second edition. *The fourth volume of Bridgewater Treatises commissioned by the 8th Earl of Bridgewater, to explore 'the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in Creation'. Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He was the first professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the College of Surgeons in London and helped establish the Medical School at the University of London. Later he was Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
BELL, Charles. The hand. Pickering, London, 1833.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Without the half-title. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. Small book-label of E.L. Kepner on verso of fly-leaf and contemporary ownership signatures on title and above "Notice." First edition, second issue. In this classic work on the hand, written as part of the Bridgewater Treatise series, Bell discusses the anatomy, physiology, and bio-mechanics of the hand, its utility and adaptive importance. Substitution of other organs for the hand, the sense of touch, kinesthetics, and other topics are also included.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London, William Pickering, 1833. 8vo, pp xv, [1], 288, wood engravings in text, finely bound in contemporary half tan calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands and olive label, minor rubbing, and minor light foxing to first and last leaves, but a fine and attractive copy, FIRST EDITION, a great and highly respected physiological study, detailing the mechanism of the human hand in a way never before attempted. The first edition was almost immediately replaced with a much enlarged second, with several further expansions following, this first printing being very scarce and desirable, especially in this fine state.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.