Christies: Rare Science Duplicates, resulting from the merger of the University of Chicago Library and the John Crerar Library., 6535,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 02, 1994 - July 02, 1994
Page Size: 428 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
301 BANCROFT, Edward An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, in South America London

1769

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 264.00
302 BOCCONE, Paolo Recherches et Observations Naturelles Amster dam

1674

GBP 350.00 - 550.00 418.00
303 BONNET, Charles (1720-1793) Oeuvres d'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosophie Neuchatel

1779-83

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
304 BUFFON, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788) Natural History, general and particular London

1791

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 165.00
305 BUONANNI, Filippo (1638-1725) Observationes circa Viventia, quae in Rebus non Viventibus Reperiuntur Rome

1691

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 1,980.00
306 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life London

1859

GBP 600.00 - 900.00 1,210.00
307 DARWIN, Charles The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication London

1868

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 165.00
308 DAVILA, Pedro Francisco Catalogue Sytématique et Raisonné des Curiosités de la Nature et de l'Art Paris

1767

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 330.00
309 GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712) Musaeum Regalis Societatis ... whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts London

1681

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 385.00
310 HOOKE, Robert (1635-1702) Micrographia, or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses London

1665

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 7,700.00
311 LEEUWENHOEK, Anthony van (1632-1723) Epistolae ad Societatem Regiam Anglicam Leiden

1719

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 825.00
312 LOVELL, Robert Panzoologicomineralogia, or a complete history of animals and minerals Oxford

1661

GBP - 132.00
313 MORTON, John (1670-1726) The Natural History of Northampton shire London

1712

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 462.00
314 Natural History of New York New York

1842-61

GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 1,320.00
315 NEWBERRY, John (1822-1892) Reports on the Geology, Botany, and Zoology of Northern California and Oregon, made to the War Department Washington

1857

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 110.00
316 PISO, Willem (1611-1678) De Indiae Utriusque re Naturali et Medica libri quatuordecim Amsterdam

1658

GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 2,090.00
317 PLINY (c. 23-79) Historia Mundi, denvo emendata Basle

1535

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 528.00
318 PLINY The Historie of the World London

1601

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 352.00
319 REGIUS, Raphael Epistolae Plynii enarrationes Venice

23 May 1490

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 1,045.00
320 ROCHEFORT, Charles de Histoire Naturelle et Morale des lies Antilles de V Amerique Rotterdam

1658

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 286.00
321 SCHWANN Theodor (1810-1882) Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebèreinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen Berlin

1839

GBP 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 3,300.00
322 SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729-1799) Dissertazioni di Fisca Animale, e Vegetabile Modena

1780

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 352.00
323 Transactions of the Linnean Society London

1794-1800

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 165.00
324 TURGOT Etienne Francois (1721-1788) Memoire Instructif sur la maniere de rassembler, de preparer, de conserver, et d' envoyer les diverses curiosites d'histoire naturelle Lyon

1758

GBP - 55.00
325 VICQ-D'AZYR Felix (1748-1794) Oeuvres Paris

1805

GBP 120.00 - 200.00 770.00
326 WHITE Gilbert (1720-1793) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbome London

1789

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 308.00
327 ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.) De Animali um generatione libri quinque cum Philoponi Commentariis [Venice

1526

GBP - 528.00
328 AUBERT DE LA CHESNAYE DES BOIS, François Alexandre Dictionnaire Raisonné et Universel des Animaux Paris

1759

GBP - 242.00
329 BAER, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876) Uber Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere Beobachtung und Reflexion Kõnigsberg

1828-37

GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 6,050.00
330 BAKER, Henry (1698-1774) An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Polype in a letter to Martin Folkes London

1743

GBP 120.00 - 180.00 242.00
331 BIANCHI, Giovanni De Conchis minus notis Venice

1739

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 495.00
332 BUFFON, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788) The Natural History of Birds London

1793

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 242.00
333 CALDESI, Francesco Observazioni Anatomiche Florence

1687

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 418.00
334 CASSERIO, Guillio (1552-1616) De Vocis Auditusque Organis Historia Anatomica Ferrara

1601

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 2,640.00
335 COLLINS, Samuel A Systeme of Anatomy London

1685

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 385.00
336 DARWIN, Charles (editor) The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836 London

1839-43

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 19,800.00
337 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) A Monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia London

1851-54

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 110.00
338 EHRENBERG, Christian Gottfried (1795-1876) Die Infu--sionthierchen als Vollkommene Organismen Leipzig

1838

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 1,430.00
339 Encyclopédie MEthodique, ou par ordre de matières; par une société de gens de lettres, de savans et d'artistes Paris

1788--1832

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 1,540.00
340 FABRICIUS, Johann Christian (1745-1808) Systema Entomologiae Flensburg & Leipzig

1775

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 605.00
341 FABRICIUS, Otto Fauna Groenlandica Copenhagen

1780

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 242.00
342 FORSKAL, Petrus (1732-1763) Descriptiones Animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere Orientali observauit Copenhagen

1775

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 418.00
343 FRITSCH, Gustav (1838-1927) Die Elektrischen Fische Leipzig

1887-90

GBP 350.00 - 450.00 1,045.00
344 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Isidore (1805-1861) Histoire Générale et Particuliere des Anomalies de l'Organisation chez l'Homme et les Animaux Paris

1832-36

GBP - 242.00
345 GODMAN, John American Natural History. Mastology Philadelphia

1826

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 170.00
346 GOUAN, Antoine Histoire des Poissons Strasbourg

1770

GBP 120.00 - 180.00 165.00
347 HUDSON, George Vernon The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand Wellington

1928

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 660.00
348 LACORDAIRE, Jean Theodore Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères Paris

1854-76

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 385.00
349 LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de (1744-1829) Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres Paris

1815-22

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 242.00
350 LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres Paris

1801

GBP 500.00 - 900.00 4,950.00
351 LE CLERC, Daniel Historia Naturalis et Medica latorum lumbricorum Geneva

1715

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 33.00
352 MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628-1694) Dissertatio Epistolica de Bombyce London

1669

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 2,640.00
353 MILNE EDWARDS, Henri (1800-1885) Histoire Naturelle des Coraïliaires Paris

1857-60

GBP 120.00 - 180.00 264.00
354 MUELLER, Otto Frederick (1730-1784) Von Würmern des Suesser und Salzigen Wassers Copenhagen

1771

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 77.00
355 OWEN, Charles An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents London

1742

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 242.00
356 PALLAS, Peter Simon (1741-1811) Naturgeschichte merkwuerdiger Thiere Berlin

[1769]-78-79

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
357 PANDER, Christian Heinrich (1794-1865) Beiträge zur Entwick-elungsgeschichte des Hühnchens im Eye Wiirzburg

1817

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 2,860.00
358 RATHKE, Heinrich (1793-1860) Abhandlungen zur Bildungs--und Entwickelungs-Geschichte des Menschen und der Thiere Leipzig

1832-33

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 462.00
359 REAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757) Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insectes Paris

1734--42-1928

GBP 250.00 - 500.00 286.00
360 REDI, Francesco (1626-1697) Esperienze Intorno alla generazione degl' Insetti Florence

1668

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 198.00
361 REDI, Francesco Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'Insetti Naples

1687

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
362 REDI, Francesco Experimenta circa generationem Insectorum Amsterdam

1671

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 99.00
363 REDI, Francesco Osservazioni ... intorno agli Animali viventi Florence

1684

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 99.00
364 ROEMER, Johann Jacob Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata Winterthur

1789

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 605.00
365 SAY, Thomas (1787-1834) American Conchology New-Harmony, Indiana

1830-[34]

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 1,100.00
366 SAY, Thomas American Entomology, or descriptions of the Insects of North America Philadelphia

1824-28

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 825.00
367 SCHAEFFER, Jacob Christian Elementa Entomologica Regens-burg

1766

GBP 900.00 - 1,400.00 2,090.00
368 SCHIOLER, Eiler Lehn Danmarks Fugle Copenhagen

1925-31

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
369 SCHOEPFF, Johann David Historia Testudinum iconibus illustrata Erlangen

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 715.00
370 SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz von Fauna Japonica Leiden

1833-1850

GBP 600.00 - 900.00 1,760.00
371 SWAMMERDAM, Jan (1637-1680) Biblia Naturae; sive historia insectorum Leiden

1737-38

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 418.00
372 WILLUGHBY, Francis (1635-1672) The Ornithology London

1678

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 1,045.00
373 ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES--Gallon (editor) Machines et Inventions approuvées par l'Academie Paris

1735

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 880.00
374 AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555) De Re Metallica ... de animantibus Subterraneis Basle

1657

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 1,210.00
375 BRUCKMANN, Franz Ernst Magnolia Dei in locis subterraneis Oder Unterirdische Schatz-Cammer... mehr als MDC. Bergwercke Durch Alle vier Welt-Theile Braunschweig

1727

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 220.00
376 GAY-LUSSAC, J. L. (1778-1850) Instruction sur l'Essai des Matières d'Argent par la Voie Humide Paris

1832

GBP 120.00 - 180.00 308.00
377 GUGLIELMINI, Domenico Della Natura de'Fumi trattato fisico--matematico Bologna

1697

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 286.00
378 HUYGENS, Christiaan (1629-1695) Horologium Oscillatorium sive de Motu Pendulorum ad Horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae Paris

1673

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 17,600.00
379 LEWIS, William (1708-1781) Commercium Philosophico-Technicum; or, Philosophical Commerce of Arts London

1763

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 55.00
380 PANCIROLLUS, Guido The History of Many Memorable Things Lost, which were in use among the ancients London

1715

GBP 120.00 - 180.00 143.00
381 PARKES, Samuel Chemical Essays, principally relating to the Arts and Manufactures of the British Dominions London

1815

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 462.00
382 PETTUS, John Fleta Minor. The Laws of Art and Nature in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining and Inlarging the Bodies of confin'd Metals London

1683

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 286.00
383 PLATT, Hugh The Jewel House of Art and Nature London

1653

GBP 600.00 - 900.00 770.00
384 REAUMUR, René-Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757) L'Art de convertir le Fer forgé en Acier, et l'art d'adoucir la fer fondu, ou de faire des ouvrages de fer fondu aussi finis que de fer forgé Paris

1722

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 308.00
385 RONALDS, Francis Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph, and of some other apparatus London

1823

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 385.00
386 TINDALE, Thomas & Harriet The Handmade Papers of Japan. Foreword by Dard Hunter Rudand, Vt. and Tokyo

1952

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
387 AGRICULTURAL JOURNALS--Arthur YOUNG and others Annals of Agriculture London

1784-1808

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 1,320.00
388 BLAGRAVE, Joseph The Epitome of the Art of Husbandry, bound with New Additions to the Art of Husbandry London

1685

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 176.00
389 CATO, Marcus Porcius, Marcus Terentius VARRO (116-27 B.C.), Lucius Junius Moderatus COLUMELLA & Rutilius PALLADIUS Libri De Re Rustica Venice

December 1533

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 352.00
390 CATO, Marcus Porcius, Marcus Terentius VARRO, Lucius Junius Moderatus COLUMELLA & Rutilius PALLADIUS De Rei Rusticae... curante Io. Matthia Gesnero Leipsig

1735

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 660.00
391 DAVY, Humphrey (1778-1829) Elements of Agricultural Chemistry in a course of lectures for the Board of Agriculture London

1814

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 198.00
392 DEANE, Samuel The New-England Farmer; or, Georgical Dictionary Worcester

1790

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 264.00
393 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri Louis De l'Exploitation de Bois Paris

1764

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 99.00
394 ELIOT, Jared Essays upon Field-Husbandry in New-England, as it is or may be Ordered Boston

1760

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 176.00
395 GOES, Wilhelm Rei Agrariae auctores legesque variae Amsterdam

1674

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 176.00
396 HARTE, Walter Essays on Husbandry London

1764

GBP 120.00 - 180.00 99.00
397 LANGLEY, Batty (1696-1751) A Sure Method of Improving Estates by Plantations of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech and other Timber Trees London

1728

GBP 120.00 - 180.00 286.00
398 LAURENCE, John A New System of Agriculture London

1726

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
399 LIEBIG, Justus von (1803-1873) Die Organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie Brunswick

1840

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 99.00
400 MARSHALL, William The Rural Economy of Norfolk London

1787

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 308.00
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