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

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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
1169 Porterfield (William) A treatise on the eye Edinburgh

1759

USD - 108.00
1170 Pott (Percival) Observations on the nature and consequences of those injuries to which the head is liable from external violence

1762

USD - 108.00
1171 Pott (Percival) The chirurgical works

1808

USD - 34.00
1172 Pott (Percival) The chirurgical works

1782

USD - 53.00
1173 Prevost (Pierre) Essais de philosophie ou etude de l'esprit humain

1854

USD - 36.00
1174 Prichard (James Co wies) Researches into the physical history of man

1813

USD - 96.00
1175 Prichard (James Co wies) Researches into the physical history of mankind

1836-47

USD - 108.00
1176 Prichard (James Cowles) A treatise on diseases of the nervous system

1822

USD - 168.00
1177 Prichard (John Cowles) A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind

1835

USD - 192.00
1178 Priestley (Joseph) Philosophical empiricism containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism

1775

USD - 91.00
1179 PRIESTLEY (JOSEPH) Experiments and observations on different kinds of air Birmingham

1775

USD - 336.00
1180 Priestley (Joseph) Experiments on the generation of air from water

1794

USD - 204.00
1181 Priestley (Joseph) Experiments and observations relating to the analysis of atmospherical air

1796

USD - 101.00
1182 Priestley (Joseph) The doctrine of phlogiston established and that of the composition of water refuted Northumberland

1800

USD - 168.00
1183 Priestley (Joseph) Hartley's theory of the human mind

1740

USD - 84.00
1184 Priestley (Joseph) A familiar introduction to the study of electricity FIRST EDITION

USD - 384.00
1185 Primerose (James) De mulierum morbis et symptomatibus libri quinque

1655

USD - 77.00
1186 Pring (Daniel) A view of the relations of the nervous system

1825

USD - 67.00
1187 Prochaska (Georg) De carne musculari tractatus anatomico-physiologicus Vienna

1779

USD - 132.00
1188 Prochaska (Georg) Disquisitio anatomico-physiologica organismi corporis humani ejusque processus vitalis portrait Vienna

1812

USD - 53.00
1189 Prochaska (Georg) Disquisitio anatomico-physiologica organismi corporis humani ejusque processus vitalis Vienna

1812

USD - 72.00
1190 PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOLOGY, NERVOUS DISEASES

USD - 168.00
1191 Pugh (John) A physiological

1819

USD - 36.00
1192 Purkinje (Joannes) Joan. Fried. Blumenbachio Breslau

1825

USD - 192.00
1193 Pym (William) Observations upon the Bulam fever which has of late years prevailed in the West Indies Edinburgh

1821

USD - 144.00
1194 Quain (Jones) Elements of descriptive and practical anatomy for the use of students

1828

USD - 48.00
1195 Quain (Jones) and W. J. E. Wilson The nerves of the human body

1851

USD - 10.00
1196 [Quelus (D. de)] The natural history of chocolate being a

1724

USD - 53.00
1197 Quin (Charles William) A treatise on the dropsy of the brain Edinburgh

1765

USD - 101.00
1198 Quincy (John) Pharmacopoeia universalis

1792

USD - 132.00
1199 Raciborski (A.) Nouveau manuel complet d'auscultation et de per-cussion

1811

USD - 29.00
1200 Ramazzini (Bernardino) Health preserved in two treatises

1750

USD - 132.00
1201 Ramazzini (B.) Traite des maladies des artisans et celles qui resultent des divers professions d'apres Ramazzini Paris

1822

USD - 58.00
1202 Ramesay (William) OANA'ZIMA KAI AHAHIIH'PIA Tractatus de venenis or a treatise of poysons

USD - 108.00
1203 Ramsay (A. M.) Atlas of external diseases of the eye Edinburgh

1863

USD - 29.00
1204 Ramsden (J.) An account of experiments to determine the specific gravities of fluids thereby to obtain the strength of spirituous liquors

1792

USD - 29.00
1205 Ray (John) Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis

1693

USD - 84.00
1206 Ray (John) Stirpium Europaearum extra Britannias nascentium sylloge

1694

USD - 101.00
1207 RAY (JOHN) HISTORIA PLANTARUM

USD - 528.00
1208 Rayer (Pierre Francois Olive) Traite theorique et pratique des maladies de la peau Paris

1826-27

USD - 29.00
1209 Rayer (Pierre Francois Olive) A theoretical and practical treatise on the diseases of the skin

1835

USD - 67.00
1210 RAYER (PIERRE FRANCOIS OLIVE) TRAITE DES MALADIES DES REINS et des alterations de la secretion urinaire Paris

1837

USD - 156.00
1211 Read (Alexander) Chirurgorum comes or the whole practice of chyrurgery

1687

USD - 228.00
1212 Recueil sur l'electricite medicale dans lequel on a rassamble Paris

1763

USD - 91.00
1213 Recueil sur l'electricite medicale Paris

1763

USD - 67.00
1214 Reeder (Henry) A practical treatise on the inflammatory

1821

USD - 84.00
1215 REGISTRAR GENERAL

USD - 34.00
1216 REGISTRAR-GENERAL

1849-76

USD - 96.00
1217 Reich (Gottfried Christian) On fever and its treatment in general Bath and London

1801

USD - 36.00
1218 Reid (T.) An essay on . . . Phthisis pulmonalis Bradford

[c. 1798]

USD - 108.00
1219 Reil (Johann Christian) Memorabilium clinicorum medico- practicorum Halle

1790-95

USD - 72.00
1220 Reil (Johann Christian) Exercitationum anatomicarum fasciculus primus de structura nervorum (all published) Halle

1796

USD - 192.00
1221 Reisseisen (Franciscus Daniel) De fabrica pulmonum commentatio Berlin

1822

USD - 43.00
1222 Remak (Robert) Observationes anatomicae et microscopicae de systematis nervosi structura Berlin

1838

USD - 168.00
1223 REPRINTS

USD - 34.00
1224 Rhyne (Willem ten) Meditationes in magni Hippocratis textum xxiv de veteri medicina Leiden

1672

USD - 14.00
1225 Rhyne (Willem ten) Dissertatio de arthritide mantissa schematica

1683

USD - 96.00
1226 Richerand (A.) Nosographie chirurgicale

1813

USD - 24.00
1227 Richerand (A.) Nosographie chirurgicale

1823-27

USD - 60.00
1228 Richter (August Gottlieb) Medical and surgical observations

1773

USD - 24.00
1229 Richter (August Gottlieb) Traite des hernies

1798

USD - 36.00
1230 Ricord (Phillipe) Traite complet des maladies Veneriennes Paris

1851

USD - 36.00
1231 Ridley (Humphrey) Observationes quaedam medico-practicae Leiden

1750

USD - 77.00
1232 Riegels (N.) De fatis faustis et infaustis Chirurgie Leipzig

1764

USD - 24.00
1233 Rigby (Edward) An essay on the uterine haemorrhage which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus Edinburgh

1784

USD - 84.00
1234 Rilliet (Frederic) and A. Ch. E. Barthez Traite clinique des maladies des enfants Paris

1863

USD - 53.00
1235 RIOLANUS, (JOANNES) OPUSCULA ANATOMICA NOVA Instauratio magna physicae et medicinae per novam doctrinam

1649

USD - 720.00
1236 Riverius (Lazarus) Praxis medica Paris

1644-45

USD - 19.00
1237 Riverius (Lazarus) Opera medica uni versa Lyons

1690

USD - 34.00
1238 Robin (Charles) and F. Verdeil Traite de chimie anatomique et physiologique normale et pathologique Paris

1853

USD - 14.00
1239 Rochas (Henry de) Traicte des observations nouvelles . . . des eaux minerales Leiden

1703

USD - 24.00
1240 Rochoux (J. A.) Recherches sur la fievre jaune Paris

1858

USD - 60.00
1241 Roederer (J. G.) Opuscula medica Leipzig

1729

USD - 72.00
1242 Roederer (Johannes Georg) and Carl Gottlieb Wagler De morbo mucoso liber singularis

[1762]

USD - 67.00
1243 Rohault (Jacobus) Tractatus physicus

1682

USD - 53.00
1244 [Rollo (John)] Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West Indies

1783-1781

USD - 91.00
1245 [Rollo (John)] Notes of a diabetic case

7 January 1797

USD - 58.00
1246 ROLLO (JOHN) AN ACCOUNT OF TWO CASES OF THE DIABETES MELLITUS

1797

USD - 408.00
1247 Rollo (John) Cases of the Diabetes Mellitus with the results of certain acids ... in the cure of the Lues Venerea

1806

USD - 53.00
1248 Romayne (Nicholas) An address delivered New York

1808

USD - 24.00
1249 Rondelet (Gulieilmus) Opera omnia medica Geneva

1628

USD - 14.00
1250 Rosen von Rosenstein (Nicholas) The diseases of children and their remedies

1776

USD - 192.00
1251 Rotherharh (J.) A philosophical inquiry into the nature and properties of water with plates Edinburgh

1769

USD - 48.00
1252 Rouppe (Ludovicus) De morbis navigantium liber unus accedit observatio de effectu extracti cicutae Storkiano in cancro Leiden

1764

USD - 43.00
1253 Rouppe (Ludovicus) De morbis navigantium liber unus accedit observatio de effectu extracti cicutae Storkiano in cancro Leiden

1764

USD - 36.00
1254 Rowley (William) A treatise on female

1788

USD - 101.00
1255 Rowley (William) Schola medicinae universalis nova continens historiam medicinae

1794

USD - 43.00
1256 Rowley (William) An essay on the ophthalmia or inflammation of the eye

1792

USD - 53.00
1257 Rowley (William) The rational practice of physic

1802

USD - 29.00
1258 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

USD - 384.00
1259 Royal College of Surgeons

1757

USD - 43.00
1260 Royal College of Surgeons

1830-31

USD - 132.00
1261 Royle (J. F.) An Essay on the antiquity of Hindoo Medicine

1837 [1838]

USD - 43.00
1262 Rucco (Julius) Introduction to the science of the pulse as applied to the practice of medicine

1827

USD - 14.00
1263 Rush (Benjamin) An oration delivered before the American Philosophical Society Philadelphia

1786

USD - 19.00
1264 Rush (Benjamin) An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1793 Philadelphia

1794

USD - 180.00
1265 Rush (James) The philosophy of the human voice embracing its physiological history Philadelphia

1823

USD - 91.00
1266 Russell (Alexander) Tentamen medicum de medicastrorum audacitate

1763

USD - 67.00
1267 Russell (Alexander) The natural history of Aleppo

USD - 36.00
1268 Russell (Patrick) A treatise of the plague containing an historical journal

1791

USD - 43.00
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