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
1469 Valentin (Dr. G.) Handbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen

USD - 96.00
1470 Valentin (Louis) Recherches historiques et pratiques sur le croup

USD - 24.00
1471 Valentinus (Michael Bernhard) Amphitheatrum Zootomicum tabulis aeneis quamplurimus exhibens Historiam Animalium Anatomicam Francfurt ad Main

1720

USD - 101.00
1472 Valli (Eusebius) Experiments on animal electricity with their application to physiology and some pathological and medical observations

1793

USD - 84.00
1473 Valsalva (Antonio Maria) De aure humana tractatus

USD - 120.00
1474 Valsalva (Antonio Maria) Opera Venice

1740

USD - 204.00
1475 Vauquelin (Louis Nicolas) Manuel de l'essayeur Paris

1799

USD - 62.00
1476 Velpeau (Alf. A. L. M.) Nouveaux elements de medecine operatoire Paris

1832

USD - 10.00
1477 Velpeau (Alfred Armand Louis Marie) Traite complet d'anatomie chirurgicale Paris

1833

USD - 10.00
1478 Velpeau (Alf. A. L. M.) Embryologie ou ovologie humaine Paris

1833

USD - 34.00
1479 Verheyen (Phillippus) Corporis humani anatomiae liber primus (-secundus) Leipzig

USD - 48.00
1480 Vermale (Remon de) Observations et remarques de chirurgie pratique

USD - 60.00
1481 VESALIUS

1544

USD - 720.00
1482 VESALIUS (ANDREAS) CHIRURGIA MAGNA Venice, Valgrisius

1569

USD - 1,248.00
1483 VESALIUS (ANDREAS) ANATOMIA Amsterdam, Jansson

1617

USD - 72.00
1484 VESALIUS (ANDREAS) Opera Omnia Anatomica & Chirurgica cura Hermanni Boerhaave & Bernhardi Siegfried Albini Leiden

1725

USD - 180.00
1485 Vesalius (Andreas) Opera omnia anatomica etchirurgicacura Hermanni Boerhaave Leiden

1725

USD - 36.00
1486 Vesling (Johannes) Syntagma anatomicum Utrecht

1696

USD - 72.00
1487 Vetch (John) An account of the ophthalmia which has appeared in England since the return of the British army from Egypt

USD - 120.00
1488 Vicq d'Azyr (Felix) Oeuvres Paris

1805

USD - 139.00
1489 Vimont (J.) Traite de phrenologie humaine et comparee Paris

1832-36

USD - 101.00
1490 VIRCHOW (RUDOLF) DIE CELLULARPATHOLOGIE IN IHRER BEGRUNDUNG AUF PHYSIOLOGISCHE UND PATHOLOGISCHE GEWEBELEHRE Berlin

1858

USD - 528.00
1491 Virchow (Rudolf) Cellular pathology as based upon phsyiological and pathological histology

1860

USD - 180.00
1492 Walker (Richard) Memoirs of medicine including a sketch of medical history

1799

USD - 72.00
1493 Walter (Walter Gottlieb) Tabulae nervorum thoracis et abdominis Berlin

1783

USD - 43.00
1494 Wardrop (James) Essays on the morbid anatomy of the human eye Edinburgh

1808-1818

USD - 58.00
1495 Wardrop (James) On the effects of evacuating the aqueous humour in ... inflammation of the eyes

USD - 132.00
1496 Wardrop (James) On the nature and treatment of the diseases of the heart Edinburgh

1859

USD - 72.00
1497 Ware (James) Remarks on the ophthalmy

USD - 43.00
1498 Ware (James) Remarks on the ophthalmy

USD - 72.00
1499 Warren (John C.) Cases of organic diseases of the heart Boston

1809

USD - 108.00
1500 Warren (John C.) A comparative view of the sensorial and nervous systems in men and animals Boston

1822

USD - 62.00
1501 Warren (John C.) Surgical observations on tumours with cases and operations Boston

1837

USD - 115.00
1502 Watson (White) A delineation of the strata of Derbyshire forming the surface from Bolsover to Buxton Sheffield

1811

USD - 34.00
1503 Watson (Sir William) Observations upon the effects of electricity applied to a Tetanus or muscular rigidity of four months continuance

USD - 115.00
1504 Watt (Robert) Cases of diabetes

USD - 34.00
1505 Watt (Robert) Treatise on

USD - 115.00
1506 Weber (Ernst Heinrich) Anatomia comparata nervi sympathici Leipzig

1817

USD - 108.00
1507 Weber (Ernst Heinrich) De aure et auditu hominis at animalium Leipzig

1820

USD - 48.00
1508 Webster (Charles) An account of the life and writings of Dr. Archibald Pitcairne

USD - 101.00
1509 Webster (J. Clarence) Tubo-peritoneal ectopic gestation

USD - 202.00
1510 Webster (Noah) A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases

1800

USD - 156.00
1511 Wedekind (G. Chr.) De morborum primarium viarum Vera notitia et curatione

USD - 43.00
1512 Weiss (John) An account of inventions and improvements in surgical instruments

1831

USD - 101.00
1513 Weitbrecht (Josias) Syndesmologia sive historia ligamentorum corporis humani

USD - 96.00
1514 Wells (William Charles) An essay upon single vision with two eyes together with experiments and observations on several other subjects in optics

1792

USD - 132.00
1515 Wells (William Charles) An essay on dew and several appearances connected with it

1814

USD - 60.00
1516 Wenzel (Joseph and Carl) De penitiori structura cerebri hominis et brutorum

USD - 53.00
1517 Wenzel (Michael Johann Baptiste, Baron) A treatise on the cataract with cases

USD - 60.00
1518 Wenzel (Michael Johann Baptiste, Baron) A treatise on the cataract

USD - 72.00
1519 Wepfer (Johannes Jacobus) Cicutae aquaticae historia et noxae, FIRST EDITION Basle

1679

USD - 38.00
1520 Wepfer (Johannes Jacobus) Historia cicutae aquaticae Basle

1716

USD - 29.00
1521 Wepfer (Johannes Jacobus) Historiae apoplecticorum observationibus et scholiis anatomicis et medicis Amsterdam

1724

USD - 53.00
1522 Wepfer (Johannes Jacobus) Observationes medico-practicae de affectibus capitis internis et externis

1727

USD - 72.00
1523 Werner (P. Chr. Fr.) Vermium intestinalium praesertim taeniae humanae brevis expositio

USD - 48.00
1524 West Indies

1778

USD - 91.00
1525 Wetsch (J. J.) Medicina ex pulsu sive systema doctrinae sphygmicae Vienna

1770

USD - 36.00
1526 WHARTON (THOMAS) ADENOGRAPHIA SIVE GLANDULARUM TOTIUS CORPORIS DESCRiPTIO

1656

USD - 528.00
1527 White (Charles) A treatise on the magemenent of pregnant and lying-in women

1773

USD - 108.00
1528 White (Charles) A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women

1785

USD - 62.00
1529 WHITE (CHARLES) An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling in one or both of the lower extremities which sometimes happen to lying-in women

USD - 456.00
1530 White (Charles) An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling in one or both of the lower extremities which sometimes happen to lying-in women Warrington

1784

USD - 101.00
1531 White (Charles) An account of the regular gradation in man and in different animals and vegetables

1799

USD - 72.00
1532 White (Charles) On the regeneration of animal substances

USD - 48.00
1533 White (Thomas) A treatise on the struma or scrofula commonly called the King's Evil

USD - 67.00
1534 Whytt (Robert) An essay on the vital and other involuntary notions of animals Edinburgh

1751

USD - 120.00
1535 Whytt (Robert) An essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals Edinburgh

1763

USD - 60.00
1536 Whytt (Robert) Observations on the dropsy in the brain Edinburgh

1768

USD - 312.00
1537 Wilkinson (C. H.) Elements of galvanism in theory and practice with a comprehensive view of its history from the first experiments of Galvani to the present time

1804

USD - 84.00
1538 Willan (Robert) On cutaneous diseases

1808

USD - 38.00
1539 Willan (Robert) On cutaneous diseases

1808

USD - 24.00
1540 Williams (J.) A treatise on the medicinal virtues of the mineral waters of the German Spa Edinburgh

1751

USD - Not Sold
1541 Williamson (John) Medical and miscellaneous observations relative to the West India Islands Edinburgh

1817

USD - 180.00
1542 WILLIS (THOMAS) CEREBRI ANATOME cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus

1664

USD - 528.00
1543 Willis (Thomas) De anima brutorum quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est exercitationes duae Amsterdam

1672

USD - 77.00
1544 Willis (Thomas) Opera omnia Amsterdam

1682

USD - 101.00
1545 Willis (Thomas) Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen

USD - 84.00
1546 Wilks (Samuel) Lectures on pathological anatomy 1859-Stokes (William) Studies on physiology and medecine, portrait

USD - 67.00
1547 Wilmer (B.) Practical observations on herniae

USD - 144.00
1548 Wilson (Benjamin) An essay towards an explication of the phaenomena of electricity deduced from the aether of Sir Isaac Newton

1746

USD - 72.00
1549 Wilson (John) Memoirs of West Indian fever

USD - 96.00
1550 Winterbottom (Thomas) An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone to which is added an account of the present state of medicine among them

1803

USD - 53.00
1551 Wintringham (Clifton) De morbis quibusdam commentarii

USD - 108.00
1552 Wiseman (Richard) Several chirurgicall treatises

1676

USD - 144.00
1553 Withering (William) A botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain Birmingham

1776

USD - 91.00
1554 Withering (William) An arrangement of British Plants

USD - 96.00
1555 Withering (William) A chemical analysis of the water at Caldas da Rainha Lisbon

1795

USD - 43.00
1556 Wood (Casey A.) The American encyclopaedia and dictionary of ophthalmology Chicago

1913-21

USD - 24.00
1557 Woodville (William) Medical Botany

1790-94

USD - 62.00
1558 WOODVILLE (WILLIAM) Medical Botany

1810

USD - 84.00
1559 Worm (Olaus) Museum Wormianum seu historia rerum rariorum tam naturalium

USD - 96.00
1560 Wrisberg (H. A.) Commentationum medici

USD - 53.00
1561 Yates (William) and Charles Maclean A view of the science of life on the principles established in the elements of medicine of the late John Brown Philadelphia

1797

USD - 60.00
1562 Young (Thomas) An introduction to medical literature including a system of practical nosology

1813

USD - 48.00
1563 Young (Thomas) An introduction to medical literature

1813

USD - 48.00
1564 Young (Thomas) An introduction to medical literature including a system of pratical nosology

1823

USD - 38.00
1565 Zachias (Paolo) Quaestiones medico-legales Paris

1657

USD - 48.00
1566 Zinn (Johann Gottfried) Descriptio anatomica oculi humani

USD - 48.00
1567 Zollickoffer (William) A Materia Medica of the United States Baltimore

1819

USD - 67.00
1568 Aldrovandus (Ulysses) Serpentum et draconum historiae libri duo, engraved title, many woodcuts Bologna

1640

USD - 108.00
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