Christies: Printed Books, Natural History and Science including an important collection of Herbals. The Properties of Racquet & Tennis Club, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Stanford University Libraries and from various sources., 7518,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 29, 1992 - October 29, 1992
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABU ALI YAHYA IBN ISA IBN GUZLAH AL BAGHDADI | Tacuini aegritudinum. | Strassburg | 1532 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 5,280.00 |
| 2 | AGRICOLA, GEORGIUS | De re metallica. | Basel | 1556 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 14,300.00 |
| 3 | ALBERTUS MAGNUS | Le grant albert des secretz des vertus des herbes, pierres & bestes. Et aultre liure des merveilles du monde daulcuns effectz causez daulcunes bestes. | N.d. [c. 1530]. |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 7,150.00 | |
| 4 | ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED | Explicado Tabularum Anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii ... Accedit tabularum editio nova. | Leiden | 1744 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 880.00 |
| 5 | ALBUCASIS, PRISCIANUS, THEODORUS | Octavii Horatiani [pseud.] rerum Medicarum Lib. tres. | Strassburg | 1532 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 5,500.00 |
| 6 | ALONSO Y DE LOS RUYZES DE FONTECHA, JUAN | Diez previlegios para mugeres prenadas ... Con un diccionario Medico. | Alcala de Henares | 1606 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,080.00 |
| 7 | BERETTINI, PIETRO | da Cortona. | Rome | 1741 |
USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | 5,280.00 |
| 8 | BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS ANTOINE DE, Comte | Voyage autour du monde par la frégate du roi la Boudeuse et la flûte l'Étoile; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. | Paris | 1771 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,300.00 |
| 9 | BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS | Das buch der wund Artzeny. | Strassburg | 1513 |
USD 4,500.00 - 6,500.00 | 9,900.00 |
| 10 | CHAUMETON, FRANÇOIS PIERRE, JEAN LOUIS MARIE POIRET and J.B.J.A.C. TYRBAS DE CHAMBERET | Flore médicale ... Nouvelle publication. | Paris | 1828-1832. |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,420.00 |
| 11 | DESCARTES, RENÉ | De homine figuris, Leiden 1664, 4to, contemporary calf worn, engraved plates, overslips. | Amsterdam | 1683 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,520.00 |
| 12 | DRYANDER, JOHANN | Der gantzen Artzenei gemeyner Inhalt, wes einem Artzt, bede in der Theoric und Practic züsteht ... Hiebei beneben des Menschen Cörpers Anatomei, warhafft contrafeyt und beschriben ... Newlich in Truck verordnet. | Frankfurt-am-Main | March 1542 |
USD 4,500.00 - 6,500.00 | 6,380.00 |
| 13 | ESTIENNE, CHARLES | La dissection des parties du corps humain diuisée en trois liures ... avec les figures & declaratio[n] des incisions, composées par Estienne de la Riviere Chirurgien. | Paris | 1546 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 13,200.00 |
| 14 | EUCLID | Elementa geometria [translated by Adelard of Bath, edited by Campanus of Novara]. | Venice | 25 May 1482 |
USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | 46,200.00 |
| 15 | EYB, ALBERTUS DE. | Ob einem Mann sei zu nehmen ein ehelich Weib oder nicht. | Augsburg | c. 1473 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 18,700.00 |
| 16 | FABRIZZI, GIROLAMO | Crisol de la Cirugia ... traducido en Castellano por Don Pedro Gonzalez de Godoy. | Valencia | 1676 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 660.00 |
| 17 | GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN | Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement, jointe à l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, avec les planches imprimées en couleur, selon le nouvel art. | Paris | 1778 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 4,950.00 |
| 18 | GRAAF, REINIER DE. | De virorum organis generationi inservientibus, de clysteribus et de usu siphonis in anatomia. | Leiden and Rotterdam | 1668 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,640.00 |
| 19 | GUY DE CHAULIAC | Inventario o colectario en la parte cirurgical de la medicina. | Seville | c. 1518-1520 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,850.00 |
| 20 | HEISTER, LORENZ | Institutions de chirurgie, 1770, 2 vols.--PAUL, FRANCOIS. | 1773 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 770.00 | |
| 21 | CONRAD VON MEGENBERG | Buch der Natur. | Augsburg | 19 August 1478 |
USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | 52,800.00 |
| 22 | CONRAD VON MEGENBERG | Buch der Natur. | Augsburg | 1499 |
USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | 60,500.00 |
| 23 | Herbarius Latinus | Mainz | [14]84 |
USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | 55,000.00 | |
| 24 | Herbarius Latinus | Speier | 1484 |
USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 52,800.00 | |
| 25 | Herbarius Latinus | Passau | [14]85 |
USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | 44,000.00 | |
| 26 | Hcrbarius Latinus | [with German synonyms]. | Passau | c. 1486 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 6,380.00 |
| 27 | Herbarius Latinus | Venice | 14 December 1499 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 24,200.00 | |
| 28 | Herbarius Latinus | Venice | 14 December 1499 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 8,800.00 | |
| 29 | Herbarius Latinus | Venice | 15 March 1509 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 9,900.00 | |
| 30 | Gart der Gesundheit. | Augsburg | 14 August 1485 |
USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | 143,000.00 | |
| 31 | Gart der Gesundheit. | Augsburg | 5 June 1486 |
USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 | 55,000.00 | |
| 32 | Gart der Gesundheit. | Basel | c. 1486 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 7,700.00 | |
| 33 | Gart der Gesundheit. | Augsburg | 10 May 1496 |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 13,200.00 | |
| 34 | Gart der Gesundheit | Strassburg | 1521 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 17,600.00 | |
| 35 | Hortus Sanitatis. | Mainz | 23 June 1491 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 77,000.00 | |
| 36 | Hortus Sanitatis. | Strassburg | c. 1499 |
USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 20,900.00 | |
| 37 | Hortus Sanitatis | Venice | 11 August 1511 |
USD 18,000.00 - 24,000.00 | 26,400.00 | |
| 38 | Hortus Sanitatis | Strassburg | 1517 |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 18,700.00 | |
| 39 | Hortus Sanitatis, German | Strassburg | 1529 |
USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 7,700.00 | |
| 40 | BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS | [Kleines Destillierbuch, German]. | Strassburg | 8 May 1500 |
USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 66,000.00 |
| 41 | BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS | [Kleines Destillierbuch, German]. | Strassburg | 8 May 1500 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 17,600.00 |
| 42 | BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS | [Grosses Destillierbuch, German]. | Strassburg | 1512 |
USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 38,500.00 |
| 43 | MACER, AEMILIUS, pseud | [Odo de Mcung]. | Paris | c. 1520 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 3,300.00 |
| 44 | HERBAL, French. | Paris | c. 1526-27 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 45 | HERBAL, French | Paris | c. 1528 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 7,700.00 | |
| 46 | HERBAL, English | 17 March 1529 |
USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 35,200.00 | ||
| 47 | BRUNFELS, OTTO | Herbarum vivae eicones [vol. 1]. | Strassburg | 1530 |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | 15,400.00 |
| 48 | BRUNFELS, OTTO | Herbarum vivae eicones; Novi Herbarii Tomus II. | Strassburg | 1532-31 |
USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 13,200.00 |
| 49 | Herbarum imagines vivae | Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph (1536). | Frankfurt | 1536 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,400.00 |
| 50 | CRESCENTIIS, PETRUS DE. | Vom Ackerbaw, | Strassburg | 1531 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 8,250.00 |
| 51 | FUCHS, LEONHARD | De historia stirpium commentarii insignes. | Basel | 1542 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 77,000.00 |
| 52 | FUCHS | New Kreüterbuch. | Basel | 1543 |
USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 13,200.00 |
| 53 | DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS | De medicinali materia libri sex. | Frankfurt | April 1549 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 7,700.00 |
| 54 | DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS | De medicinali materia libri sex. | Lyon | 1550 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,530.00 |
| 55 | BOCK, HIERONYMUS | Kreüterbuch. Darinn Underscheidt, Namen unnd Würckung der Kreutter, Stauden, Hecken unnd Beumen, sampt ihren Früchten, so inn Deütschen Landen wachsen. | Strassburg | 1556 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 4,180.00 |
| 56 | DODOENS, REMBERT | Histoire des plantes, en laquelle est contenue la description entiere des herbes ... Nouuellement traduite de bas Aleman en François par Charles de l'Escluse. | Antwerp | 1557 |
USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 15,400.00 |
| 57 | DODOENS, REMBERT | Stirpium historiae pemptades Sex. | Antwerp | 1616 |
USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 58 | RYFF, WALTHER HERMANN | Reformierte Deutsche Apoteck, Darinnen Eigentliche Contrafactur der Fürnembsten und Gebrëuchlischten Kreütter. | Strassburg | 1573 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 11,000.00 |
| 59 | ORTA, GARCIA DE and CHRISTOVAL ACOSTA | Tractado de las Drogas, y medicinas de las índias Orientales ... | Burgos | 1578 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 10,450.00 |
| 60 | MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA | Commentaires ... sur les six livres de Ped. Dioscor[ides] ... de la matiere Medicinale ... Mis en Francois sur la derniere edition Latine ... par M. lean des Moulins ... et de nouveau reveuz par iceluy & augmentés. | Lyon | 1579 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 880.00 |
| 61 | GERARD, JOHN | The Herball or Generali Historie of Plantes. | London | 1597 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,400.00 |
| 62 | LONICER, ADAM | Kreüterbuch, Künstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken, Kreuter, Getreyde, Gewürtze ... weit über vorige Edition gemehret. | Frankfurt | 1598 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 14,300.00 |
| 63 | ORTA, GARCIA DA, CRISTOVAL DE ACOSTA and NICOLAS MONARDES | Histoire des drogues, espiceries, et de certains medicamens simples, qui naissent és Indes, tant Orientales que Occidentales, diuisée en deux parties. | Lyon | 1602 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 64 | JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, JEAN HENRI | Plantes de la France décrites et peintes d'après nature. | Paris | [1805-] 1808-22 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 11,000.00 |
| 65 | KETHAM, JOHANNES DE | Fasciculus medicinae [with PETRUS DE TUSSIGNANO. Consilium pro peste evitanda; MUNDINUS. Anatomia (edited by Petrus Andrea Morsiano); RHASIS. De aegritudinibus puerorum]. | Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 28 March 1500. Venice | 28 March 1500 |
USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 26,400.00 |
| 66 | LOBERA DE.AVILA, LUIS | Ein nutzliche Regiment der gesundtheit, genant das Vanquete, oder Gastmal ... mit sampt einem kurtzen Regiment, wie man sich in der Pestilentz ... halten sol. | Augsburg | 11 May 1531 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,180.00 |
| 67 | LOBERA DE AVILA, LUIS | Remedio de cuerpos humanos y silva de experiencias y otra cosas utilissimas. | Alcala de Henares | 27 March 1542 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,970.00 |
| 68 | MAURICEAU, FRANÇOIS | Traité des maladies des femmes grosses ... | 1681 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 69 | MONTANA DE MONSERRATE, BERNARDINO | Libro de la Anothomia del hombre. | Valladolid | 1551 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 16,500.00 |
| 70 | PARÉ, AMBROISE | Opera chirurgica. | Frankfurt | 1594 |
USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | 3,850.00 |
| 71 | PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS | Historia naturale ... tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino. | Venice | 1476 |
USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 82,500.00 |
| 72 | Regimen Sanitatis, das ist von der ordnung der gesuntheit. | Ulm | 5 October 1482 |
USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 17,600.00 | |
| 73 | Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum | Paris | c. 1490 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 7,700.00 | |
| 74 | Regimen Sanitatis Salerni | London | 1541 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,980.00 | |
| 75 | RIVINUS, AUGUST QUIRINUS | Introductio generalis rem herbariam. | Leipzig | 1690 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 76 | ROESSLIN, EUCHARIUS | De partu hominis, et quae ipsum accidunt. | Frankfurt | circa 19 October 1532 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,400.00 |
| 77 | RUEFF, JACOB | De conceptu et generatione hominis, et iis quae haec potissimum consyderantur, Libri sex. | Zurich | circa 1554 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,180.00 |
| 78 | RUEFF, JACOB | The Expert Midwife, or an excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man ... Also the causes, signes and various cures, of the most principali maladies and infirmities incident to women. | London | 1637 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 10,450.00 |
| 79 | RYFF, WALTHER HERMANN | Die kleyner Chirurgi. | Strassburg | 1542 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 7,700.00 |
| 80 | SCULTETUS, JOHANNES | ... Armamentarium chirurgicum XLIII. | Venice | 1665 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,320.00 |
| 81 | TENORE, MICHELE | Flora Napolitana, ossia descrizione delle piante indigene del Regno di Napoli, e delle più rare specie di piante esotiche. | Naples | 1811 [-1829] |
USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 9,900.00 |
| 82 | VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, JUAN | Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano. | Rome | 1556 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 15,400.00 |
| 83 | VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, JUAN | Anatome corporis humani ... nunc primum a Michaele Colu[m]bo latine reddita. | Venice; colophon | 1589 [1588] |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,180.00 |
| 84 | VESALIUS, ANDREAS | De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. | Basel | June 1543 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 29,700.00 |
| 85 | VESALIUS, ANDREAS | De humani corporis libri septem. | Basel | August 1555 |
USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | 49,500.00 |
| 86 | VESALIUS, ANDREAS | Anatomia. | Venice | 1604 |
USD 15,000.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,640.00 |
| 87 | VESALIUS. LEVELING, HEINRICH PALMAZ | Anatomische Erklarung der Onginal- Figuren von Andreas Vesal, samt einer Anwendung der Winslowischen Zergliederungslehre in sieben Büchern. | Ingolstadt | 1783 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,750.00 |
| 88 | VICQ D'AZYR, FELIX | Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie, avec des planches coloriées ... Tome premier [all published]. | Paris | 1786 |
USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | 15,400.00 |
| 89 | WENZEL, CARL | Über die Krankheiten des Uterus. | Mainz | 1816 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 660.00 |
| 90 | DES BARRES, JOSEPH FREDERICK WALLET | The Atlantic Neptune, Published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain ... Under the Directions of the right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. | London | 1777-78 |
USD 140,000.00 - 180,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 91 | JODE, GERARD and CORNELIS DE | Speculum orbis terrae. | Antwerp | 1593 |
USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 77,000.00 |
| 92 | ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM | Theatrum orbis terrarum [with the Parergon and the Nomenclator Ptolemaicus]. | Antwerp | 1584 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 71,500.00 |
| 93 | AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES | The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. | New York: J. J. Audubon, Philadelphia | [1839-] 1840-1844 |
USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 29,700.00 |
| 94 | AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN | The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. | New York | 1845-54 |
USD 100,000.00 - 120,000.00 | 137,500.00 |
| 95 | BLOCH, MARCUS ELIESER | [Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische. Berlin: Schlesinger 1782-95]. | Berlin | 1782-95 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 17,600.00 |
| 96 | BRISSON, MATHURIN JACQUES | Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. | Paris | 1760 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 97 | DARWIN, CHARLES | Autograph letter signed in full to Mr. Lumb, an English resident in Buenos Aires | Argentina | 30 March 1834 |
USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 16,500.00 |
| 98 | DARWIN, CHARLES and others | Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe. | London | 1839 |
USD 4,500.00 - 6,500.00 | 4,620.00 |
| 99 | ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD | A Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or Family of the Grouse. | New York | [1864-] 1865 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 100 | ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD | The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America. | New York | [1866-] 1869 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 13,200.00 |
