Sothebys: Music, Continental Printed Books and Manuscripts including Science and Medicine comprising autograph letters, manuscripts and printed books, 4708,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 01, 1994 - December 01, 1994
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | Brunschwig (Hieronymus) | The Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon of the Waters of all Maner of Herbes | 18 April 1527 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,440.00 | |
| 502 | Brunschwig (Hieronymus) | The Noble Experience of the Vertuous Handy Warke of Surgeri | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 32,200.00 | ||
| 503 | Brunschwig (Hieronymus) | Chirurgia | Augsburg | 1539 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,025.00 |
| 504 | Celsus (Aulus Cornelius) | De medicina | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,325.00 | ||
| 505 | Capellutus (Rolandus) | De curatione pestiferorum apostematum | Rome | [c.1475] |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,990.00 |
| 506 | Cleyer (Andreas) | Specimen medicinae sinicae | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 507 | Clowes (William) | A Prooved Practice for all Young Chirurgians | 1588 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 2,990.00 | |
| 508 | Crock (Giovanni Andrka della) | Chirurgiae libri Septem | Venice | 1573 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 509 | Dalechamps (Jacques) | Chirurgie Francoise | Paris | 1610 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 690.00 |
| 510 | Dioscorides | Venice | July 1499 |
GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 10,925.00 | |
| 511 | Darwin (Charles) | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | 1859 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,370.00 | |
| 512 | Dieffenbach (Johann Friedrich) | Die Operative Chirurgie | Leipzig | 1845-1848 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 513 | Dieffenbach (Johann Friedrich) | Ueber die Durchschneidung der Sehnen und Muskeln | Berlin | 1841 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 460.00 |
| 514 | Einstein (Alfred) | Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper | Leipzig | [1905] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,840.00 |
| 515 | Erastus (Thomas) | De astrologia divinatrice epistolae | Basel | 1580 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 862.00 |
| 516 | Euclid | GBP 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 | 8,625.00 | |||
| 517 | [Fine (Oronge)] | La theorique des cielz | Paris | 31 August 1528 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 4,140.00 |
| 518 | Galenus (Claudius) | Opera ex nona Juntarum editione | Venice | 1625 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 920.00 |
| 519 | Galilei (Galileo) | Systema cosmicum | 1641 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 690.00 | |
| 520 | Galilei (Galileo) | Dialogo | Florence | 1632 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 17,250.00 |
| 521 | Gelman (Georg) | Chirurgiae tripartita flora | Frankfurt | 1680 |
USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 522 | Gersdorff (Hans) | Feldtbuch der Wundartzney | Strassburg | 1526 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 523 | Gesner (Conrad, editor) | Chirurgia | Zurich | March 1555 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,990.00 |
| 524 | Gesscher (David van) | Hedendaagsche oeffenende Heelkunde | Amsterdam | 1781-1786 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 525 | Guidi (Guido) | Les anciens et renommes aucteurs de la medicine et chirurgie | Lyons | 1555 |
USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 526 | Guy de Chauliac | Lyons | 1520 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,380.00 | |
| 527 | Guy de Chauliac | 1642 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 460.00 | ||
| 528 | Halley (Edmund) | Catalogus stellarum australium sive supplementum catalogi Tychonici exhibens longitudines & latudines stellarum fixarum | 1679 |
GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 21,850.00 | |
| 529 | Haller (Albrecht von) | Bibliotheca chirurgica | Bern | 1774-1775 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 530 | Jenner (Edward) | An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae | 1798 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,185.00 | |
| 531 | Laennec (Rene Theophile Hyacinthe) | De l'auscultation mediate ou traite du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur | Paris | 1819 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,725.00 |
| 532 | Lowe (Peter) | A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie | 1612 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 920.00 | |
| 533 | Magni (Pietro Paolo) | Disgorsi sopra ii, modo di sanguinare | Brescia | 1618 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 534 | Maier (Michael) | Examen fucorum pseudo-chymicorum detectorum et in gratiam veritatis amantium succincte refutatorum | Frankfurt | "1417" [but 1617] |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 535 | Malgaignf, (Joseph Francois) | Traite des fractures et des luxations | Paris | 1847-1855 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 690.00 |
| 536 | Manget (Jean Jacques) | Bibeiotheca chirurgica | Geneva | 1721 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 805.00 |
| 537 | Meek'ren (Job Janszon van) | Heel-en geneeskonstige Aanmerkkingen | Amsterdam | 1668 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 538 | [Newton (Sir Isaac)] | Opticks | 1704 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 9,200.00 | |
| 539 | Palfijn (Jan) | Nauwkeurige Verhandeling van de voornaemste Handwerken der Heelkonst Zoo in de Harde | Leiden | 1710 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 782.00 |
| 540 | Palfijn (Jan) | Heelkonstige ontleeding van's Menschen Lichaam | Leiden | 1733 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 |
| 541 | Paracelsus (P.A.T. Bombast von Hohenheim) | De Kleyne Chirurgie | Utrecht | 1629 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 805.00 |
| 542 | Paracelsus (P.A.T. Bombast von Hohenheim) | Chirurgische Bucher und Schriffeen | 1605 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 5,750.00 | |
| 543 | Pare (Ambroise) | Les oeuvres | Paris | 1598 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 6,325.00 |
| 544 | Park (Ambroise) | De Chirurgie | Amsterdam | 1655 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 545 | Petit (Jean-Louis) | Traite des maiadies chirurgicales et des operations qui leur conviennent | Paris | 1774 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 2,070.00 |
| 546 | Rashleigh (Philip) | Specimens of British Minerals | 1802 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 575.00 | |
| 547 | Regiomontanus (Johannes) | Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei | Venice | 31 August 1496 |
GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 34,500.00 |
| 548 | Rudolff (Christoff) | Die Coss Christoffs Rudolffs mit schonen Exempeln der Coss durch Michael Stifel gebessert und sehr gemehrt | Konigsberg | 1553 (colophon: 1554) |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 549 | Scultetus (Johannes) | L'arcenal de chirurgie | 1674 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 977.00 | |
| 550 | Ryff (Walther Hermann) | Die Grosz Chirurgei oder volkommene Wundtartzenei | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 551 | Semmelweis (Ignaz Philipp) | Die Aetiologie | Pest, Vienna & Leipzig | 1861 |
GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 9,775.00 |
| 552 | Solingen (Cornelis) | Alee de Medicinale en Chirurgicale Werken | Amsterdam | 1698 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 632.00 |
| 553 | Tagault (Jean) | Der Chirurgyen Instructie | Dordrecht | 1621 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 |
| 554 | Tagault (Jean) | La chirurgie | Paris | 1629 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 555 | Tolet (Francois) | Traite de la; lithotomie ou l'extraction de la pierre hors la vessie | Paris | 1689 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 460.00 |
| 556 | Tagliacozzi (Gaspare) | Cheirurgia nova | Frankfurt | 1598 |
GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,450.00 |
| 557 | Uffenbach (Peter) | Thesaurus chirurgiae | Frankfurt | 1610 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 |
| 558 | Valascus de Tarenta | Lyons | 14 November "1401" [i.e. 1501] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 632.00 | |
| 559 | Vesalius (Andreas) | De humani corporis fabrica lib | 1552 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 8,050.00 | |
| 560 | Vesalius (Andreas) | Zergleiderung deb Menschlichen Korpers auf Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst gericht | Augsburg | 1706 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,955.00 |
| 561 | Vesalius (Andreas)---Borgarugci (Prospero) | Chirurgia magna in septem libros digesta | Venice | 1569 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | 1,725.00 |
| 562 | Vigo (Giovanni de) | Opera in chyrurgia compendiosa | 22 February 1525 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 920.00 | |
| 563 | Wiseman (Richard) | Severael ChirurgicallTreatises | 1676 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,092.00 | |
| 564 | Woodall (John) | The Surgeon's Mate or Military & Domestique Surgery | 1639 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,300.00 | |
| 565 | Woodali (John) | The Surgeons Mate or Military & Domestique Surgery | 1655 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 566 | Alain -Fournier (Henri, pseudonym of Henri-Alban Foumier) | Remarkable and rare autograph letter signed ("Henri") | GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 6,325.00 | ||
| 567 | Alexander I | Letter signed ("Aleksandr") | St Petersburg | 13 March 1801 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 2,645.00 |
| 568 | Apollinaire (Guiliaume) | Autograph draft verses | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 569 | Art | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 570 | Augsburg | Perugia, Rome, Florence, Siena, Geneva, Bourges and elsewhere | 1616 to 1625 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 571 | Beauharnais (Hortense) | Autograph letter signed ("h") expressing her displeasure at the mentions which have been made of her in Marshal Ney's trial | 15 November [1815] |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 572 | Becquerel (Henri) | Autograph manuscript on the question of mixture of gases | [c.June 1898] |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 573 | Bernini (Gian Lorenzo) | Autograph receipt for work on St Peter's | 6 June 1658 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,990.00 | |
| 574 | Berthier (Alexandre) | Letter signed ("Alex. Berthier") | Milan | (22 March 1798) |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 575 | Bolivar (Simon) | Letter signed to Antonio Jose de Sucre | 5 May 1823 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 576 | Bolivar (Simon) | Remarkable autograph letter signed to Antonio Jose de Sucre | 20 November [1823] |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 577 | Bolivar (Simon) | Letter signed | Trujillo | 21 March 1824 |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 578 | Bolivar (Simon) | Autograph letter signed to Antonio Jose de Sucre | 26 August 1826 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 579 | Bolivar (Simon) | Letter signed | Caracas | 5 February 1827 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 580 | Bolivar (Simon) | Letter signed to Antonio Jose de Sucre | Caracas | 20 February 1827 |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 581 | Bolivar (Simon) | Remarkable letter signed to Antonio Jose de Sucre | Caracas | 28 February 1827 |
USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 582 | [Bolivar (Simon)] | Contemporary manuscript description of the battle of Ayacucho and the last days of the viceroyalty of Peru written from the royalist standpoint | [c. 1824-1825] |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 575.00 | |
| 583 | Borges (Jorge Luis) | Autograph letter signed ("Jorge Luis Borges") | 5 September 1953 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 977.00 | |
| 584 | Borges (Jorge Luis) | Fine series of thirteen autograph love-letters signed ("Georgie"one "Jorge Luis Borges") | [1947-1949] |
GBP 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,900.00 | |
| 585 | Brod (Max) | Seven autograph letters signed ("Max") | c. 1948-1953 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,495.00 | |
| 586 | Charles V | Two letters signed | 28 May 1527 and 18 April 1535 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 587 | Christiana of Denmark | 1547/8 and no place, [c.1562] |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 588 | Constantine I (1868-1923, King of the Hellenes) | Signed photograph | 1915 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 287.00 | |
| 589 | Danton (Georges) | Document signed as President of the Conseil provisoire executif ("Danton Pdt") | Paris | 11 September 1792 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 590 | David (Jacques Louis) | Letter signed ("David") as member of the Comite de Surete generale of the National Convention | Paris | 19 September 1793 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 591 | Delacroix (Eugene) | Eight autograph letters signed (two in the third person) to a variety of correspondents | Paris and Champrosay | c.1840 to 1862 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,990.00 |
| 592 | Desnos (Robert) | Autograph manuscript | [c.1940] |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 575.00 | |
| 593 | de Gaulle (Charles) | Autograph letter signed ("C. de Gaulle") | Paris | 23 May 1937 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 594 | Dehmei, (Richard) | Sixteen autograph letters and postcards signed | Berlin and Hamburg | 8 August 1893 to 17 August 1910 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,450.00 |
| 595 | Devotional | Augsburg | 1584 |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 596 | Doria (Andrea) | Letter signed ("Andrea doria") | Villafranca | 13 May 1538 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,725.00 |
| 597 | Dumas (Alexandre, fils) | The autograph manuscript of his piay 'La Princesse de Bagdad' a drama in three acts | September 1880 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,760.00 | |
| 598 | Einstein (Albert) | Autograph cheque signed | 2 January 1948 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 483.00 | |
| 599 | Einstein (Albert) | Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein") | Princeton | 21 January 1953 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 414.00 |
| 600 | Elisabeth de France (1545-1568, Queen of Spain) | Two autograph letters signed | Madrid | 1561-1562 or 1563] |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |