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
1269 Rutty (John) A chronological history of the weather and seasons and the prevailing diseases in Dublin Edinburgh

1759

 USD - 67.00
1270 Rutty (Johan) Materia medica antiqua et nova Paris

1819

 USD - 14.00
1271 Ruysch (Fredericus) Opera omnia anatomico-medico-chirurgica Amsterdam

1721

 USD - 156.00
1272 Ruysch (Fredericus) Observationum anatomico-chirurgicarum centuria

USD - 48.00
1273 Ruysch (Fred.) Cura'e renovatae seu thesaurus anatomicus

USD - 72.00
1274 Ryan (Michael) Observations on the history and cure of the asthma

USD - 101.00
1275 Saint-Hilaire (Isidore Geoffroy) Philosophie anatomique des organes respiratoires Paris

1818

 USD - 34.00
1276 Saint-Hilaire (Isidore Geoffroy) Histoire generale et particuliere des anomalies de l'organisation chez l'homme et les animaux Paris

1832-37

 USD - 62.00
1277 Saint-Yves (Charles) Nouveau traite des maladies des yeux

USD - 24.00
1278 Salerno Rotterdam

1657

 USD - 9.00
1279 Sanctorius (S.) Medicina statica being the aphorisms

USD - 53.00
1280 Sandifort (Eduard) Thesaurus dissertationum programmatum aliorumque opusculorum Rotterdam

1768-78

 USD - 36.00
1281 Sandifort (Eduard) Observationes anatomico-pathologicae Leiden

1777-81

 USD - 120.00
1282 Sandifort (Eduard) Descriptio musculorum hominis

USD - 60.00
1283 Sandifort (Eduard) Tabulae anatomicae Leiden

1739

 USD - 48.00
1284 Santorini (J. Domenico) Observationes anatomicae Leiden

1739

 USD - 84.00
1285 Saumarez (Richard) A new system of physiology

USD - 53.00
1286 Saunders (J. C.) The anatomy of the human ear

1806

 USD - 34.00
1287 Sauvages de la Croix (Francois Boissier de) Nosologia sistens morborum classes genera et species Amsterdam

1763

 USD - 62.00
1288 Sauvages de la Croix (Francois Boissier de) Nosologia methodica, sistens morborum classes, genera et species Amsterdam

1768

 USD - 53.00
1289 Sauvages de la Croix (Francois Boissier de) Nosologia methodica Amsterdam

1768

 USD - 24.00
1290 Sauvages (Fr. Boissier de) Synopsis nosologiae methodicae

USD - 38.00
1291 Sauvages de la Croix (Francois Boissier de) Nosologia methodica sistens morborum classes

USD - 168.00
1292 Sawrey (S.) An inquiry into some of the effects of the Venereal poison on the human body

USD - 43.00
1293 Sealiger (Julius Caesar) Commentarii et animadversiones in sex libros de causibus plantarum Theophrasti (-Aristotelis)

USD - 115.00
1294 Scarpa (Antonio) Anatomicae disquisitones de auditu et olfactu Pavia

1789

 USD - 144.00
1295 SCARPA (ANTONIO) TABULAE NEUROLOGICAE AD ILLUSTRANDAM HLSTORIAM ANATOMICAM CARDIACORUM NERVORUM Turin

1794

 USD - 576.00
1296 Scarpa (Antonio) De penitiori ossium structura commentarius Leipzig

1799

 USD - 43.00
1297 Scarpa (Antonio) Sull'Aneurisma Pavia

1804

 USD - 576.00
1298 Scarpa (Antonio) A treatise on the anatomy Edinburgh

1808

 USD - 264.00
1299 Scarpa (A.) Reflexions et Observations Paris

1809-13

 USD - 43.00
1300 Scarpa (Antonio) Practical observations on the principal diseases of the eye

1806

 USD - 91.00
1301 Scarpa (Antonio) Sull' Ernie memorie anatomico-chirurgiche Milan

1809

 USD - 10.00
1302 Scarpa (Antonio) A treatise on hernia Edinburgh

1814

 USD - 34.00
1303 Scarpa (Antonio) A memoir on the cutting gorget of Hawkins

USD - 67.00
1304 Scarpa (Antonio) Traite de l'operation de la taille paris

1826

 USD - 36.00
1305 Scarpa (Antonio) De anatome et pathologia ossium commentarii Pavia

1827

 USD - 132.00
1306 Scarpa (Antonio) Anatomicarum annotationum liber primus (-secundus) de nervorum gangliis Brescia

1740

 USD - 24.00
1307 Scarpa (Antonio) Engravings of the cardiac nerves

1829

 USD - 24.00
1308 Schelhammer (Gunther Christophorus) Ars medendi universa ex veris suis fundamentis eruta Rostock

1747-52

 USD - 10.00
1309 Grafenberg (Joannes) Schenckius

1644

 USD - 19.00
1310 Schmidt (Johann Adam) Uber die Krankheiten des Thranenorgans Vienna

1803

 USD - 84.00
1311 Schneider (Conrad Victor) Liber primus (-quintus) Wittenberg

1660-1664

 USD - 84.00
1312 Schneider (Conrad Victor) Liber de morbis capitis seu Cephalicis illis Wittenberg

1669

 USD - 101.00
1313 Schneider (Conrad Victor) Liber de nova gravissimorum trium morborum curatione, de apoplexia Frankfurt

1672

 USD - 115.00
1314 Schonberg (Albrecht von) Biographie des Dr

USD - 156.00
1315 Schotte (J. P.) A treatise on the synochus atrabiliosa Senegal

1782

 USD - 115.00
1316 Schroeder (Johannes) Pharmacopoeia medico-chymica sive thesaurus pharmacologicus Leiden

1690

 USD - 53.00
1317 Schulz (Johann Heinrich) Historia medicinae a rerum initio ad annum urbis Romae deducta DXXXV Leipzig

1728

 USD - 60.00
1318 Screta Schornovius a Zavorziz (Henricus) De febri castrensi maligna seu mollium corporis humani partium inflammatione

1686

 USD - 38.00
1319 Scudamore (Sir Charles) An essay on the blood

USD - 29.00
1320 Scultetus (Joannes) Armamentarium chirurgicum Amsterdam

1741

 USD - 29.00
1321 Sebizius (Melchior) De alimentorum facultatibus, libri quinque

USD - 77.00
1322 Seiler (Burkhard Wilhelm) Die Gebarmutter und das Ei des Menschen

USD - 53.00
1323 [Senac (Jean)] Traite des causes Paris

1744

 USD - 5.00
1324 SENAC (JEAN BAPTISTE) TRAITE DES MALADIES DU COEUR Paris

1749

 USD - 384.00
1325 Serres (Etienne Renaud Augustin) Anatomie comparee du cerveau dans les quatre classes des animaux vertebres Paris

1824-26

 USD - 168.00
1326 Serres (Etienne Renaud Augustin) Recherches d'anatomie transcendant et pathologique Paris

1832

 USD - 12.00
1327 Drummond (William Hamilton) Servetus

1848

 USD - 36.00
1328 Seth (Simeon) De alimentorum facultatibus Paris

1658

 USD - 43.00
1329 Seybert (Adam) An inaugural dissertation being an attempt to disprove the doctrine of the putrefaction of the blood of living animals submitted to Philadelphia

1793

 USD - 48.00
1330 Seymour (Edward J.) Illustrations of some of the principal diseases of the Ovaria

1830

 USD - 62.00
1331 Shannon (R.) Practical observations on the operations and effects of

1794

 USD - 62.00
1332 Shaw (Alexander) An account of Sir Charles Bell's classification of the nervous

USD - 156.00
1333 Shaw (John) On the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine and the bones of the chest are subject

1823-24

 USD - 77.00
1334 Sheldon (John) The history of the absorbent system

1784

 USD - 38.00
1335 Sheldrake (T.) A practical essay on the club-foot and other distortions of the legs and feet of children

1798

 USD - 101.00
1336 [Sherwen (John)] Cursory remarks on the nature and cause of the marine scurvy

1782

 USD - 132.00
1337 Sicard (Roch Ambroise) Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance Paris

1803

 USD - 84.00
1338 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Answer to the religious objections advanced against the employment of anaesthetic agents in midwifery and surgery Edinburgh

1847

 USD - 101.00
1339 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Anaesthesia or the employment of chloroform and ether in surgery Philadelphia

1849

 USD - Not Sold
1340 SIMPSON (SIR JAMES Y.) A COLLECTION OF MONOGRAPHS

USD - 960.00
1341 Simpson (Sir James Y.) The obstetric memoirs and contributions

USD - 91.00
1342 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Archaeological essays Edinburgh

1872

 USD - 29.00
1343 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Memoir on the sex of the child as a cause of difficulty and danger in human parturition

USD - 72.00
1344 Simson (Thomas) An inquiry how far the vital and animal actions of the more perfect animals Edinburgh

1752

 USD - 29.00
1345 Simson (Thomas) An inquiry how far the vital and animal actions of the more perfect animals can be accounted for independent of the brain Edinburgh

1752

 USD - 34.00
1346 SLOANE (SIR HANS) CATALOGUS PLANTARUM QUAE IN INSULA JAMAICA SPONTE PROVENIUNT

1696

 USD - 576.00
1347 Smellie (William) A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery

1752-1758-1764

 USD - 43.00
1348 Smellie (William) A set of anatomical tables with explanations and abridgment of the practice of midwifery

1761

 USD - 168.00
1349 Smith (Sir James Edward) Memoir and Correspondence

USD - 72.00
1350 Smyth (James Carmichael) An account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords

USD - 67.00
1351 Smyth (James Carmichael) A description of the jail distemper as it appeared among the Spanish prisoners at Winchester in 1780

USD - 67.00
1352 Smyth (James Carmichael) Remarks on the report of M. Chaptal

USD - 34.00
1353 SNAPE (ANDREW) THE ANATOMY OF THE HORSE

1683

 USD - 264.00
1354 SNOW (JOHN) ON CHLOROFORM AND OTHER ANAESTHETICS

1858

 USD - 384.00
1355 Societe Royale de medecine Paris

1779-90

 USD - 24.00
1356 Soemmering (Samuel Thomas) De basi encephali et originibus nervorum cranio egredientium libri V

1778

 USD - 204.00
1357 Soemmering (Samuel Thomas) De corporis humani fabrica Frankfurt

1794-1801

 USD - 101.00
1358 Soemmering (Samuel Thomas) De morbis vasorum absorbentium corporis humani Frankfurt

1794-1801

 USD - 34.00
1359 Soemmering (Samuel Thomas) Icones embryonum humanorum Frankfurt

1799

 USD - 156.00
1360 Soemmering (Samuel Thomas) Icones organorum humanorum olfactus

USD - 91.00
1361 Solly (Samuel) The intimate structure of the secreting glands by John Muller

USD - 62.00
1362 Spachius (Israel) Gynaeciorum sive de mulierum turn communibus

1597

 USD - 120.00
1363 Spallanzani (Abbe Lazzaro) Experiments on the circulation of the blood throughout the vascular system

USD - 91.00
1364 Spallanzani (Abbe Lazzaro) Memoires sur la respiration Geneva

1803

 USD - 53.00
1365 Spallanzani (Abbe Lazzaro) Memoirs on respiration

1804

 USD - 84.00
1366 Spigelius (Adrianus) De humani corporis fabrica libri decem Frankfurt

1632

 USD - 72.00
1367 SPIGELIUS (ADRIANUS) Opera quae extant Amsterdam

1645

 USD - 624.00
1368 Sprengel (Kurt) Histoire de la medecine Paris

1815-32

 USD - 48.00
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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.
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    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.