Sothebys: AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF MEDICAL BOOKS The Property of The Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh Third and Last Portion M to Z, EDINBURGH,

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 27, 1969 - October 27, 1969
Page Size: 668 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1069 Peacock (Thomas B.) On malformations of the human heart

USD - 180.00
1070 Pearson (George) An inquiry concerning the history of the cow-pox

USD - 38.00
1071 Pearson (John) The life of William Hey

USD - 24.00
1072 Percival (Thomas) Medical ethics or a course of institutes and precepts adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons Manchester

1803

USD - 58.00
1073 Percival (Thomas) Essays medical and experimental

USD - 77.00
1074 Perfect (William) Select cases in the different species of insanity Rochester and London

1787

USD - 216.00
1075 Abstracts of world surgery

USD - Not Sold
1076 Abstracts of world medicine

January 1947-Decemb er 1957

USD - 192.00
1077 AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNALS

USD - 120.00
1078 Association of American Physicians

1918-1961

USD - Not Sold
1079 BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

1853-1950

USD - 1,440.00
1080 Lord Moynihan and others British journal of surgery (The)

(1915)-November 1958

USD - 168.00
1081 Dublin Hospital Reports

USD - 5.00
1082 Edinburgh medical and surgical journal (The) exhibiting a concise view of the latest discoveries in medicine Edinburgh

1805-1937

USD - 168.00
1083 Edinburgh Obstetrical Society Edinburgh

1914-1931

USD - Not Sold
1084 Edinburgh Post-Graduate Lectures in medicine Edinburgh

1940-56

USD - 10.00
1085 Ephemerides medicales de Montpellier

USD - 240.00
1086 George H. Barlow, James F. Babington Guy's hospital reports

1836-1926

USD - 240.00
1087 Hutchinson (Sir Jonathan) Archives of surgery

1890-1900

USD - 84.00
1088 INDIAN MEDICAL JOURNALS

USD - 14.00
1089 Morris Fishbein Journal of the American medical Association Chicago

January 1943-April 1950

USD - 12.00
1090 Journal of experimental medicine (The) Baltimore

March 1955 to June 1964

USD - 5.00
1091 L. R. Blinks and others Journal of general physiology Baltimore

March 1955 to July 1964

USD - 12.00
1092 C. L. Robertson, Henry Maudsley and others JOURNAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE

1864-1909

USD - 960.00
1093 Thomas Wakley and others LANCET (THE)

1824-1950

USD - 1,248.00
1094 London and Edinburgh monthly journal of medical science Edinburgh

1841-1954

USD - 720.00
1095 London medical gazette being a weekly journal of medicine and the collateral sciences

1828-51

USD - 48.00
1096 London medical journal (The) 11 vol

1781-90

USD - 144.00
1097 London medical and physical journal (The) vol. 44

USD - Not Sold
1098 Mayo Clinic London

1911-1949

USD - 24.00
1099 MEDICAL JOURNALS

USD - 5.00
1100 George F. Shrady Medical record New York

January 1889 to December 1896

USD - 10.00
1101 Nathan E. Boyd Medical and surgical "review of review"

October 1898- December 1922

USD - 14.00
1102 Wm. Shearman, John Johnson and Shirley Palmer Medico-Chirurgical journal and review

1816-1847

USD - 14.00
1103 Memoirs of the medical Society of London

USD - 5.00
1104 Miscellanea curiosa sive Ephemeridum medico- physicarum Germani-carum Academiae naturae curiosorum

USD - 336.00
1105 Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom

USD - Not Sold
1106 Pathological Society of London. Transactions

1848-1907

USD - 12.00
1107 Phrenological journal and miscellany (The) Edinburgh

1824-1843

USD - 168.00
1108 Post-graduate medical journal

January 1943- August 1964

USD - 5.00
1109 Practitioner (The) a monthly journal of therapeutics

1869-1950

USD - 38.00
1110 Sir William Osier and others Quarterly journal of medicine (The) Oxford

1907-38

USD - 216.00
1111 Edwin Lankester, George Bisk, E. Ray Lankester and others Quarterly journal of microscopical science

1853-1891

USD - 288.00
1112 Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh

1889-1915

USD - 12.00
1113 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Journal Edinburgh

December 1955-July 1964

USD - 12.00
1114 Sir Cecil Wakeley Royal College of Surgeons of England

1947-1956

USD - 12.00
1115 Royal Medico and Chirurgical Society of London. Medico-chirurgical transactions

1809-1845

USD - Not Sold
1116 ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. Transactions Edinburgh

1788-1939

USD - 2,160.00
1117 ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. Proceedings Edinburgh

1857-1956

USD - 1,248.00
1118 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

1667-1906

USD - 6,720.00
1119 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON PROCEEDINGS

1856-1917

USD - 1,440.00
1120 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

1919-1933

USD - 1,440.00
1121 Royal Society London

1832-51

USD - 168.00
1122 Alexander Brown and others Scottish medical journal Glasgow

1956-June 1964

USD - 5.00
1123 William Russell and others Scottish medical and surgical journal (The) Edinburgh

1897-June 1908

USD - 5.00
1124 Sheffield medical journal (The)

October 1892-August 1903

USD - 14.00
1125 Petit (M. J. L.) Traite des maladies chirurgicales

USD - 24.00
1126 Peyer (Johann Conrad) Merycologia sive de ruminantibus et rumuna-tione commentarius Basle

1685

USD - 168.00
1127 Pharmacology. Niel (J. G.) and J. A. Chrestien Recherches et observations sur les effets des preparations d'or dans le traitement de maladies

USD - 43.00
1128 Galtier (C. P.) Pharmacology

USD - 24.00
1129 Pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata

1672

USD - 53.00
1130 Pharmacopoea Danica

USD - 62.00
1131 Pharmacopoeia Londinensis Collegarum

1650

USD - 144.00
1132 Pharmacopoea Rossica Petersburg

1803

USD - 62.00
1133 Pharmacopoea Suecica Stockholm

1775

USD - 91.00
1134 Pharmacopoeia (The) of the United States of America Boston

Dec. 1820

USD - 180.00
1135 Phrenology. Outlines of the phrenological system of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim

USD - 204.00
1136 PINCKARD (GEORGE) NOTES ON THE WEST INDIES

1806

USD - 168.00
1137 Pinel (Philippe) Traite medico-philosophique sur l'alienation mentale ou la manie Paris

1801

USD - 180.00
1138 Pinel (Philippe) A treatise on insanity in which are contained the principles of a new and more practical nosology of maniacal disorders Sheffield

1806

USD - 204.00
1139 Pinel (Philippe) Traite medico-philosophique sur l'alienation mentale Paris

1809

USD - 60.00
1140 Pinel (Philippe) Paris

1809

USD - 77.00
1141 Pinel (Philippe) Traite medico-philosophique sur l'alienation mentale

USD - 156.00
1142 Pinel (Philippe) La medecine clinique rendue plus precise

USD - 84.00
1143 Piorry (Pierre Adolphe) De la percussion mediate et des signes obtenus a l'aide de ce nouveau moyen d'exploration FIRST EDITION Paris

1828

USD - 168.00
1144 Piorry (P. A.) Traite de Diagnostic et de Semeiologie

USD - 24.00
1145 Pirondi (Sirus) De la Tumeur Blanche de Genou

USD - 156.00
1146 Pirrie (William) Acupressure

USD - 156.00
1147 Piso (Guilelmus) and Georg Marcgravius de Liebstad De medicina Brasiliensi libri IV Leiden

1648

USD - 480.00
1148 Piso (Nicolaus) De cognoscendis et curandis praecipue internis humani corporis morbis libri tres Leiden

1736

USD - 60.00
1149 Pitcairn (Archibald) Elementa medicinae physico-mathematica

1717

USD - 84.00
1150 Pitcairn (Archibald) Elementa medicinae physico-mathematicae Hague

1718

USD - 53.00
1151 Plantou (Anthony, surgeon and dentist) Observations on the yellow fever

1822

USD - 29.00
1152 Plater (Felix) Observationum in hominis affectibus plerisque corpori et animo

1641

USD - 10.00
1153 Plater (Felix) Praxeos medicae libri tres cum centuria posthuma Basle

1656

USD - 29.00
1154 Plater (Felix) Praxeos medicae tomi tres cum centuria posthuma Basle

1666

USD - 29.00
1155 Plater (Felix) Praxeos seu de cognoscendis

USD - 120.00
1156 Plempius (Vopiscus Fortunatus) Ophthalmographia sive tractatio de oculi fabrica Amsterdam

1632

USD - 77.00
1157 Plempius (Vopiscus Fortunatus) Ophthalmographia sive tractatio de oculo Louvain

1648

USD - 67.00
1158 Plempius (Vopiscus Fortunatus) De fundamentis medicinae libri sex

USD - 288.00
1159 Plempius (V. F.) Ophthalmographia sive tractatio de oculo

USD - 48.00
1160 Plenck (Joseph Jacob) Doctrina de morbis oculorum

USD - 24.00
1161 Plinius Secundus (Cajus)

November, 1518

USD - 96.00
1162 PLOUCQUET (WILHELM GOTTFRIED) INITIA BIBLIOTHECAE MEDICO-PRACTICAE ET CHIRURGICAE realis sive repertorium medicinae practicae et chirur-gicae Tuebingen

1793-97; 1799-1800; 1808-1814

USD - 768.00
1163 Porta (Johannes Baptista) Magiae naturalis libri viginti Leiden

1644

USD - 24.00
1164 Porta (Joh. Baptista) Magia naturalis libri viginti Leiden

1644

USD - 24.00
1165 PORTAL (Baron ANTOINE) HISTOIRE DE L'ANATOMIE ET DE LA CHIRURGIE Paris

1770-73

USD - 336.00
1166 (Portal (Baron Antoine) Observations sur la nature et sur le traitement du rachitisme

USD - 24.00
1167 Portal (Baron Antoine) Memoires sur la nature et le traitement de plusieurs maladies

USD - 120.00
1168 Portai (Baron Antoine) Observations sur la nature et le traitement de l'epilepsie

USD - 180.00
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