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
1369 Spurzheim (J. G.) The physiognomical system of Drs

1807

USD - 24.00
1370 Spurzheim (G.) Observations sur la phrenologie Paris

USD - 77.00
1371 Spurzheim (G.) The anatomy of the brain with a general view of the nervous system

1826

USD - 125.00
1372 Stahl (Georg Ernst) Scripta D. Georg Ern. Stahlii aliorumque ad ejus mentem disserentium serie chronlogica recenset J. Chr. Goetzius Nuremberg

1729

USD - 72.00
1373 Stahl (Georg Ernst) Theoria medica vera physiologiam et pathologiam...sistens Jena

1686

USD - 96.00
1374 Stahl (Georg Ernst) Theoria medica vera physiologiam et pathologiam

1736

USD - 53.00
1375 Stalpart van der Wiel (C.) Observationum rariorum medic Leiden

1727

USD - 60.00
1376 Stanley (Edward) An account of the mode of performing the lateral operation of lithotomy Edinburgh

1831

USD - 84.00
1377 Stark (William) The works

1788

USD - 384.00
1378 Steno (Nicolaus) De musculis et glandulis observationum specimen Leiden

1684

USD - 264.00
1379 Stephenson (John) Medical zoology and mineralogy

1838

USD - 60.00
1380 Stephenson (John) and J. M. Churchill Medical Botany

1831

USD - 84.00
1381 Sterre (Dionisius van der) Tractatus novus de generatione ex ovo nee non de monstrorum productione duabus epistolis Amsterdam

1687

USD - 168.00
1382 Stevenson (John) On the nature, symptoms and treatment of Amaurosis or gutta serena

1824

USD - 84.00
1383 Stewart (Dugald) Elements of the philosophy of the human mind Edinburgh, London

1792, 1814, 1827

USD - 84.00
1384 Stock (John Edmonds) Memoirs of the life of Thomas Beddoes M.D.

1811

USD - 91.00
1385 Stoerck (Antonius) Libellus qui continuantur experimenta...circa nova sua medicamenta The Hague

1784

USD - 48.00
1386 STOKES (WILLIAM) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF THE STETHOSCOPE Edinburgh

1825

USD - 288.00
1387 STOKES (WILLIAM) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF THE STETHOSCOPE Edinburgh

1825

USD - 312.00
1388 Stokes (William) A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest part I diseases of the lung and windpipe Dublin

1837

USD - 84.00
1389 Stokes (William) A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest Dublin

1837

USD - 67.00
1390 Stokes (William) The diseases of the heart and aorta Dublin

1854

USD - 101.00
1391 Stokes (William) The diseases of the heart and aorta Dublin

1854

USD - 91.00
1392 Stuart (Alexander) Dissertatio de structura et motu musculari

1738

USD - 24.00
1393 Stukeley (William) Of the spleen

1723

USD - 120.00
1394 Sturmius (Johannes Christophorus) Collegium experimentale sive curiosum in quo primaria hujus seculi inventa et experimenta physicomathematica Nuremberg

1676

USD - 67.00
1395 Sutton (Thomas) A practical account of a remittent fever

USD - 180.00
1396 Swammerdam (Joannes) Biblia naturae sive historia insectorum in classes certas redacta...accedit praefatio in qua vitam auctoris descripsit Leiden

1737-38

USD - 120.00
1397 Swammerdam (Joannes) Biblia naturae sive Historia Insectorum in classes certas redacta...accedit praefatio in qua vitam auctoris descripsit Leiden

1737-1738

USD - 132.00
1398 Swan (Joseph) A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body

1830

USD - 36.00
1399 Swan (Joseph) Illustrations of the comparative anatomy of the nervous system

1835

USD - 48.00
1400 Sydenham (Thomas) Methodus curandi febres

[? 1668]

USD - 53.00
1401 Sydenham (Thomas) Observations medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem

1676

USD - 180.00
1402 Sydenham (Thomas) Tractatus de podagra et hydrope Leiden

1784 [i.e. 1684]

USD - 96.00
1403 Sydenham (Thomas) Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu

1688

USD - 108.00
1404 Sydenham (Thomas) The entire works newly made English

1753

USD - 34.00
1405 SYDENHAM SOCIETY

1844-54

USD - 312.00
1406 Sylvester (Charles) The philosophy of domestic economy as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying and cooking Nottingham

1819

USD - 60.00
1407 Sylvius (Franciscus Deleboe) Opera medica Amsterdam

1680

USD - 48.00
1408 Sylvius (Franciscus Deleboe) Opera medica Geneva

1681

USD - 34.00
1409 Syme (Patrick) Werner's nomenclature of colours

USD - 91.00
1410 Syme (James) The principles of surgery

USD - 101.00
1411 Syme (Patrick) Observations in clinical surgery

USD - 180.00
1412 Symington (Johnson) The topographical anatomy of the child Vienna

1873

USD - 36.00
1413 T. (P.) Chemia rationalis rationibus philosophicis observationibus medicis Amsterdam

1682

USD - 77.00
1414 [Tarin (Pierre)] Anthropotomie ou l'art de dissequer les muscles Paris

1750

USD - 24.00
1415 Tatham (William) An historical and practical essay on the culture and commerce of tobacco

1800

USD - 77.00
1416 Temple (Richard) Practice of physic

USD - 77.00
1417 TENNENT (JOHN) AN EPISTLE TO DR. RICHARD MEAD CONCERNING THE EPIDEMICAL DISEASES OF VIRGINIA Edinburgh

1742

USD - 408.00
1418 Testa (Antonio Giuseppe) Delle malattie del cuore Florence

1823

USD - 38.00
1419 Thackrah (C. Turner) An inquiry into the nature and properties of the blood

1819

USD - 62.00
1420 Thackrah (Charles Turner) An introductory discourse delivered to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Leeds

[1821]

USD - 10.00
1421 THACKRAH (C. TURNER) THE EFFECTS OF ARTS, TRADES AND PROFESSIONS...ON HEALTH AND LONGEVITY

1831

USD - 228.00
1422 Thackrah (C. Turner) The effects of arts, trades and professions...on health and longevity

1832

USD - 216.00
1423 Thackrah (Charles Turner) Lectures on Digestion and Diet

USD - 91.00
1424 Theatrum Chemicum Strassburg

1613-22

USD - 5.00
1425 Thelwall (John) An essay towards a definition of animal vitality

[1793]

USD - 36.00
1426 Theophrastus Leiden

1613

USD - 62.00
1427 Theory (The) and practice of warming and ventilating public buildings

1825

USD - 43.00
1428 Thevenin (Francois) Les oeuvres Paris

1658

USD - 48.00
1429 Thomson (Frederic) An essay on the scurvy

1790

USD - 115.00
1430 Thomson (John) Report of observations made in the British military hospitals in Belgium after the battle of Waterloo

USD - 168.00
1431 Thorburn (Wm.) A contribution to the surgery of the spinal cord

1910

USD - 67.00
1432 Tiedemann (Friedrich) Anatomie und Bildungsgeschichte des Gehirns im Foetus des Menschen nebst einer vergleichenden Darstellung des Hirnbaues in den Thieren Nuremberg

1816

USD - 77.00
1433 Tiedemann (Friedrich) Icones cerebri simiarum et quorundam mammalium rariorum Heidelberg

1821

USD - 101.00
1434 Tiedemann (Friedrich) Tabulae arterium corporis humanae Carlsruhe

1822

USD - 48.00
1435 Tiedemann (Friedrich) Tabulae arterium corporis humanae Carlsruhe

1822

USD - 5.00
1436 Tiedemann (Friedrich) Plates of the arteries of the human body Edinburgh

1835

USD - 24.00
1437 Tiedemann (Friedrich) Anatomie du cerveau Paris

1823

USD - 34.00
1438 Tiedemann (Friedrich) and L. Gmelin Recherches...sur la digestion

USD - 43.00
1439 Tissot (Samuel Auguste) An essay on the disorders of people of fashion and a treatise on the diseases incident to literary and sedentary persons Edinburgh

1772

USD - 58.00
1440 Tissot (Samuel Auguste Andre David) Avis au peuple sur sante

USD - 96.00
1441 Todd (Robert B.) The cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology

1836-59

USD - 14.00
1442 Tournefort (Joseph Pitton de) Materia medica or a description of simple medicines

USD - 48.00
1443 Townson (Robert) Observationes physiologicae de amphibiis pars prima de respiratione Goettingen

1794-95

USD - 53.00
1444 Tralles (Balthasar Ludwig) De methodo medendi variolis hactenus cognita...pro inoculatione argumento dissertatio

USD - 48.00
1445 Travers (Benjamin) An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines

USD - 67.00
1446 Triller (Daniel Wilhelm) Opuscula medica ac medico-philosophica

USD - 24.00
1447 Trnka de Krzowitz (Wenceslaus) Commentarius de tetano

USD - 108.00
1448 Mackinnon (Kenneth) Tropical diseases

USD - 12.00
1449 Trotter (Thomas) Observations on the scurvy...and a new theory defended on the approved method of cure

1792

USD - 204.00
1450 Trotter (Thomas) Medical and chemical essays

1795

USD - 216.00
1451 TROTTER (THOMAS) MEDICINA NAUTICA

1797-1799-1803

USD - 720.00
1452 Trotter (Thomas) An essay medical philosophical and chemical, on drunkenness and the effects on the human body Edinburgh

1804

USD - 72.00
1453 Trotter (Thomas) A view of the nervous temperament being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence Newcastle and London

1807

USD - 84.00
1454 Trousseau (Armand) Clinique medicale de l'Hotel-Dieu de Paris

USD - 108.00
1455 Trousseau (A.) and H. Belloc Traite pratique de la phthisie laryngee Paris

1837

USD - 101.00
1456 Trye (Charles Brandon) Remarks on morbid retentions of Urine

USD - 84.00
1457 Trye (Charles Brandon) An essay on the swelling of the lower extremities incident to lying-in women Manchester

[c. 1800]

USD - 72.00
1458 Trye (Charles Brandon) Essay on some of the stages of the operation of cutting for the stone

USD - 67.00
1459 Tuke (Daniel Hack) A dictionary of psychological medicine

1892

USD - 67.00
1460 Tuke (Daniel Hack) Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease

USD - 168.00
1461 Tuke (Samuel) Description of the retreat York

1813

USD - 288.00
1462 Tulpius (Nicolaus) Observationes medicae Leiden

1739

USD - 29.00
1463 Turner (Daniel) The art of surgery

1749

USD - 43.00
1464 Turner (Thomas) Outlines of a system of medico-chirurgical education

USD - 72.00
1465 Twining (William) Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal

1852

USD - 43.00
1466 Tytler (Robert) Remarks upon morbus Oryzeus or disease occasioned by the employment of noxious rice as food...connected with the disease which occurred in the district of Jessore Calcutta

1820

USD - 115.00
1467 Uffenbach (Petrus) Thesaurus chirurgiae continens praestantissimorum sutorum Frankfurt

1610

USD - 180.00
1468 Underwood (Michael) A treatise on the diseases of children Edinburgh

1813

USD - 144.00
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