Christies: The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine, Part 1, 8854,

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Auction Date
March 18, 1998 - March 18, 1998
Page Size: 234 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 TARTAGLIA, Niccolo (ca. 1499-1557). Nova scientia inventa. Venice

1537.

 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 14,950.00
202 TARTAGLIA, Niccolo. Quesiti, et inventioni diverse. Venice

July 1546.

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 11,500.00
203 TARTAGLIA, Niccolo (ca. 1499-1557). Quesiti, et inventioni diverse. Venice

July 1546.

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,300.00
204 THEOPHRASTUS (ca. 371-ca. 287 B.C.). Translated from- Greek intro Latin by Theodorus Gaza (fl.. 1400-1475), edited by Georgius Merula (d. 1494). De historia et causis plantarum. Treviso

20 February 1483.

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 55,200.00
205 TURNER, William (ca. 1500-1568). Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis & succincta historia. Cologne

1544.

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 32,200.00
206 TURNER, William (ca. 1500-1568). A new Herball, wherin are conteyned the names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch Frenche, and in the Potecaries and Herbarics Latin. - The seconde parte of William Turners herball. . . here unto is joyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Engl London, Cologne

1551; 1562.

 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 12,650.00
207 VALASCUS de TARENTA (ca. 1382-ca. 1417). De epidemia et peste. [Basel]

[ca.1474.]

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 18,400.00
208 VALTURIUS, Robertus (1413-1484). Edited by Paulus Rhamnusius junior. De re militari. Verona

13 February 1483.

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 19,550.00
209 VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan de (fl. 1560). - Andreas VESALIUS. Vivac imagines partium corporis humani acreis formis expressac. - De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome. Antwerp

1566.

 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 40,250.00
210 VAROLIO, Costanzo (1543-1575). - Costanzo VAROLIO and Girolamo MERCURIALI (1530-1606). Anatomiac, sive de resolutione corporis humani ad cacsarcm mediovillanum libri 1111. - De nervis opticis. Edited by Paolo Aicardi. Frankfurt

1591

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 20,700.00
211 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564), editor - Johannes GUINTERIUS, of Andernach (1505- 1574). Institutionum anatomicarum secundum Galeni sententiam ad candidatos medicinae libri quatuor. Venice

1538.

 USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 156,500.00
212 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Epistola, docens venam axillarem dextri cubiti in dolore laterali secandam: & melancholicum succum ex venae portae ramis ad sedem pertinentibus, purgari. Basel

April 1539.

 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 33,350.00
213 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel

June 1543

 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 1,652,500.00
214 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Epistola rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti, quo nuper inuictissimus Carolus V Imperator usus est, pertractans. Basel

October 1546.

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 8,050.00
215 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). De humani corporisfabrica, lib. VII. Lyons

1552

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 85,000.00
216 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). De humani corporisfabrica libri septem. Basel

August 1555.

 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 59,700.00
217 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564).Edited by Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770). Engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Leiden

1725.

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,750.00
218 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Icones anatomicae. Munich

1934 [i.e., 1935].

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 11,500.00
219 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). Icones anatomicac. Munich

1934 [i.e., 1935].

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 6,325.00
220 VIETA, Franciscus (1540-1603). Canon mathematicus, seu ad triangula. -Canonion Triangulorum Laterum Rationalium. -Universalium inspectionum ad canonem mathematicum liber singularis. Paris

1579.

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 32,200.00
221 VIETA, Franciscus (1540-1603). Edited by Frans van Schooten. Opera mathematica. Leiden

1646.

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,450.00
222 VIGO, Johannes de (ca. 1460 - Ca. 1525). Translated by B. Traheron. The most excellent workes of Chirurgeryc, made and set forth by maister John Vigon. [London:]

1543.

 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 25,300.00
223 VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (fl. 27 B.C.). Edited by Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515). [De architectura]. Venice

22 May 1511.

 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 277,500.00
224 VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (fl. 27 B.C.). Translated by Cesare Cesariano. Commentary by Cesariano, Benedetto Giovio, and Bono Mauro. De Architectura Libri Dece, in Italian. Como

15 July 1521.

 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 46,000.00
225 VIVES, Joannes Ludovicus (1492-1540). De anima et vita libri tres. Basel

[1538].

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 6,900.00
226 VIVES, Joannes Ludovicus (1492-1540). Edited by H. Goccius. Opera. Basel

1555

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,840.00
227 VIVES, Joannes Ludovicus (1492-1540). De anima & vita Libri tres. Eiusdcm argumenti Viti Amerbachii de Anima Libri 1111. - Anima & vita Libri tres. Eiusdem argumenti Viti Amerbachii de Anima Libri 1111. Lyons; Zurich

1555; 1563

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 633.00
228 [WITCHCRAFT.] Discours veritable sur le faiet de Marthe Brossier de Rornorantin, pretendue demoniaque. Paris

1599.

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,495.00
229 GIFFORD or GIFFARD, George (d. 1620). John COTTA. [Gabriel POWELL]. [WITCHCRAFT].A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts. - The triall of Witch-craft - A Refutation of an Epistle Apologeticall Written by a Puritan-Papist London; London; London

1603; 1616; 1605.

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 4,830.00
230 SPRENGER, Jakob and Heinrich KRAMER. - Petrus POMPONATIUS. - Adam TANNER (1571-1632). [WITCHCRAFT]. Malleus maleficarum. - De naturalium effectuum causis, sive de irtcantationibus. - Tractatus theologicus de processu adversus crimina excepta,... [Paris:]; Venice; Basel; Cologne

n.d. [ca. 1512]; 1576; 1556; 1629.

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,530.00
231 WOLFF, Hans Kaspar (1523-1601), editor. Gynacciorum. Basel

1566.

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 6,325.00
232 WOTTON, Edward (1492-1555). De differentiis animalium libri decem. Paris

1552 [colophon: 1551].

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,520.00
233 WRIGHT, Thomas (1561-1623). A Succinct Philosophicall declaration of the nature of Clymactericall yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. London

1604.

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,265.00
234 ZONCA, Vittorio (1568-1602). Nuovo teatro di Macchine ed Edifici. Padua

1607

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 4,600.00
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