• Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.
  • Sotheby's Book Week
    2 June - 9 July
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
  • June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Medical Incunabula: Petit (Jean)publisher & Kerver (Thielman)printer. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, sm. 8vo, Paris [1498]
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Hugo (Victor) [Wraxall (Lascelles)]. Les Miserable, 3 vols., 8vo, L. (Hurst & Blackett) 1862, First Authorized English Translation (copyright).
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, 8vo, 2 vols. in one, L. (G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane) 1823.
    June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Cuisine: Anon. Cookery, Pastry, and Sweet Meats in three Books, Alphabetically Digested, 8vo 1710.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Lambert (Aylmer Bourke). A Description of the Genus Pinus, with Directions Relative to the Cultivation…, 2 vols. Sm. folio L. (Messrs. Weddell) 1832.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Botany: Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vols. folio, London (B. White) 1777 – 1798.
    June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Le Moire (J.M.) Maple Leaves, Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Third Series) 8vo Quebec (Hunter, Rose & Co.) 1865. First Edn.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: The Earliest Extant Printed House Contents Sale Catalogue in Ireland: Baillie, Auctioneer, Abby Street. A Catalogue of the Goods and Stock of the late Edward Wingfield…
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: William III King of England. Autograph Letter Signed ("William R") to an unnamed correspondent [possibly Charles-Henri de Lorraine] discussing his strategy against the French forces during the siege of Namur.
    June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: [Austen (Jane) (1785-1817]. Pride and Prejudice, 3 vols. sm. 8vo, L. (T. Egerton) 1813.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Heaney (Seamus). Ugolino, sm. folio D. (Dolmen) 1979, Limited Edn. No. 78/125 Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney, Louis le Brocquy, Liam Miller and Andrew Carpenter.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Voltaire (F.M. Avouet de). Petits Ouvrages, attribues a M. de Voltaire, sm. folio manuscript, dated 1776, containing 9 works.
  • Bonhams, June 14-23: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presentation Gold Pocket Watch. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Presentation Copy of the First Issue of the Lincoln Douglas Debates Signed by Abraham Lincoln in Pencil to a Sangamon County Illinois Republican. Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: A Senate Resolution Signed in the Tense Days After the Union's Humiliating Defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Seven Passages to a Flight, an Artists Book with a Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold, the Publisher's Own Copy. Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: A New Charter for Virginia, A Response to the First Armed Rebellion in the American Colonies. Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Earliest obtainable printing of the Bill of Rights. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Edward Curtis Orotone. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Butter or Dessert Plate from FDR's State Dinner Service. Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: An Early Large-Format Plan of the City of Washington. Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Containing the First Map to Name the Hudson River. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: America's First Major Novelist, a Complete Chapter in Autograph Manuscript by James Fenimore Cooper. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: The Only Full-Length Book by Jefferson, with the Justly Famous Map. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000

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
Auction Lot Books
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
  • June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.
    Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.
    June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
  • Bonhams, June 14-23: Palm-reading, astrology, and more. Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Benjamin Franklin. Sammelband of 45 papers on electricity. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: The basis for the whole modern electric-power industry. Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Edgar Allen Poe. Poe on Mesmerism. Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Reformation - The Architect of Lutheranism on Church Unity and Dissent. Estimate: $100,000 - 150,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: The Rare 3-Paper Offprint Identifying the Double Helix Structure of DNA, Signed by Crick, Wilkins, Wilson, Stokes and Gosling. Estimate: $40,000 - 60,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Autograph book and Report from the Thirtieth Indian National Congress, featuring the signatures of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Dadabhai Naoroji. Estimate: $6,000 - 8,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: An Illustrated Miniature Hebrew Prayerbook Manuscript. Estimate: $30,000 - 50,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Autograph Working Draft of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Death Voyage. Estimate: $30,000 - 50,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: "Perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published." Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: A rare product of the Jaquard loom. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
  • Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950