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Lot 85
[ELEPHANT-ANATOMY] CAMPER, PIERRE. Description anatomique d'un éléphant mâle.
Paris, H. J. Jansen, 1802. First edition, likely a large-paper copy. French half-calf of the period. 20 x 13 1/4 inches (51 x 34 cm); portrait, xii, 108 pp., with 20 plates. Spine perished, some pale staining throughout.
Camper dissected a Ceylonese elephant in 1774. The present work was published posthumously by his son. Nissen 798.
C From the Collection of Quentin Keynes; Gift to his American doctor
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