VON HEBRA, Ferdinand (1816-1880), Felix VON BÄRENSPRUNG (1822-1864), Anton ELFINGER (1821-1864, artist) and Carl HEITZMANN (1836-1896, artist)
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ID 1514433
Lot 204 | VON HEBRA, Ferdinand (1816-1880), Felix VON BÄRENSPRUNG (1822-1864), Anton ELFINGER (1821-1864, artist) and Carl HEITZMANN (1836-1896, artist)
Valeur estimée
10000GBP £ 10 000 – 15 000
Atlas der Hautkrankheiten. Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei for W. Braumüller and C. Gerold’s Sohn, 1856-1858-1859-1864-1866-1869-1872-1876.
Complete first edition, with all plates and text, of this very important and rare work, published in 10 parts between 1856 and 1876. No complete copy has appeared at auction in the past 35 years (RBH/ABSA).
Ferdinand von Hebra, a Viennese dermatologist, began in 1843 to compile accurate illustrations of skin diseases, employing medical student Anton Elfinger as illustrator. The first part appeared in 1856, featuring ten plates on cutaneous lupus. After Berlin dermatologist Felix von Bärensprung’s death in 1859, publisher Ferdinand Enke asked Hebra to complete and expand Bärensprung’s unfinished dermatology guide, integrating his text and illustrations by R. Schwedler with new colour lithographs by Carl Heitzmann, as Elfinger’s health declined from tuberculosis. After von Hebra's death in 1880, no further parts were issued.
Each clinical illustration is reproduced in two versions: one as a chromolithograph, the other as a black-and-white outline plate. ‘The naturalistic accuracy of the depiction and the precise descriptions of the symptoms make it a pinnacle of medical documentation and illustration to this day’ (Wilhelm-Fabry Museum: https://nat.museum-digital.de/object/1229914 ). Garrison-Morton 3992. Only one auction record of what sounds like a complete copy can be traced at Sotheby's, 6 November 1990, lot 1106; although the catalogue states ‘sold not subject to return,’ it is catalogued as having 104 plates in 2 volumes, and a separate text volume as per the present set.
2 atlas volumes of plates and one of text, uniformly folio (585 x 475mm; but text volume block slightly smaller 565 x 390mm). 10 part-titles and 10 fly-titles, paginating as per that given in the index on p.131, 104 chromolithographic plates printed on thick card with grey backgrounds, each with accompanying outline plate printed on thinner paper (perhaps lacking a half-title, a couple of text leaves with marginal repaired nicks and some faint soiling, some plates trimmed close just touching captions, some light dust-soiling and occasional faint staining mostly confined to extreme top margins, outline plates attracting some occasional offsetting with a few lightly creased and soiled). Contemporary red half morocco over marbled-paper covered boards, spines with raised bands and thick gilt fillets in 6 compartments, lettered in gilt in second and third, atlas volumes numbered in roman in fourth (extremities rubbed, joints and head- and tailcaps more heavily). Provenance: Royal Society of Medicine (stamps [Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society] to title and verso of plates, remains of library labels at head of spines).
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