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Auction archive: Lot number 8

"Bodyscope", an unusual educational anatomical medical folio

Auction 24.10.2001
24 Oct 2001
Estimate
US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$646
Auction archive: Lot number 8

"Bodyscope", an unusual educational anatomical medical folio

Auction 24.10.2001
24 Oct 2001
Estimate
US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$646
Beschreibung:

"Bodyscope", an unusual educational anatomical medical folio, ORIGINATED, DESIGNED AND COMPILED BY RALPH H. SEGAL THEO I. SEGAL COLLABORATOR Copyright 1935 by Se-Mac Holding Corporation in the United States of America..BODYSCOPE PUBLICATIONS, INC. EDUCATIONAL BUILDING, 70 FIFTH AVENUE, N.Y.C. , folio, with leatherette-covered boards, the cover with gilt-tooled title and cadaceaus, the contents shown on two colour-lithographed paper-covered pierced card sleeves, with a turning card disc inside, each of the four "pages" with three pierced sections, on pages 1 and 4 each lettered A, B, and C, and with five subjects on the rotating disc for each pierced window, pages 2 and 3 with five complete subjects on the disc continued over the three windows, the main window on each being the torso of a male and of a female body, each page concentrating on a different area, with descriptive and explanatory passages for each subject covered, as well as small drawings of various figures from medical history with their dates, such as Hippocrates, Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci and so on, further with an epigram on each written by R.H. Segal See Colour Illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
24 Oct 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
Los Angeles
Beschreibung:

"Bodyscope", an unusual educational anatomical medical folio, ORIGINATED, DESIGNED AND COMPILED BY RALPH H. SEGAL THEO I. SEGAL COLLABORATOR Copyright 1935 by Se-Mac Holding Corporation in the United States of America..BODYSCOPE PUBLICATIONS, INC. EDUCATIONAL BUILDING, 70 FIFTH AVENUE, N.Y.C. , folio, with leatherette-covered boards, the cover with gilt-tooled title and cadaceaus, the contents shown on two colour-lithographed paper-covered pierced card sleeves, with a turning card disc inside, each of the four "pages" with three pierced sections, on pages 1 and 4 each lettered A, B, and C, and with five subjects on the rotating disc for each pierced window, pages 2 and 3 with five complete subjects on the disc continued over the three windows, the main window on each being the torso of a male and of a female body, each page concentrating on a different area, with descriptive and explanatory passages for each subject covered, as well as small drawings of various figures from medical history with their dates, such as Hippocrates, Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci and so on, further with an epigram on each written by R.H. Segal See Colour Illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
24 Oct 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
Los Angeles
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