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

Page Size: 694 items in 7 pages

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

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.