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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1569 | Anderson (Andrew) | AMERICAN DISSERTATIONS | New York | 1822 |
USD - | 29.00 |
| 1570 | Atkinson (James) | Medical bibliography A and B (all published) | 1834 |
USD - | 58.00 | |
| 1571 | [Backie (W. B.)] | List of books and manuscript relating to Orkney and Zetland or in which these islands are mentioned | USD - | 48.00 | ||
| 1572 | Barclay (John) | A series of engravings representing the bones of the human skeleton | USD - | 77.00 | ||
| 1573 | Berryat (Jean) and others | [Partie francoise] | 1754-1761 |
USD - | 5.00 | |
| 1574 | Bianchi (Joannes Baptista) | Historia Hepatica | Geneva | 1725 |
USD - | 43.00 |
| 1575 | Bockius (Augustus Carolus) | Accurata nervorum spinalium descriptio | Leipzig | 1828 |
USD - | 48.00 |
| 1576 | Borrichius (Olaus) | De somno et somniferis dissertatio | Copenhagen | 1683 |
USD - | 34.00 |
| 1577 | BRAID (JAMES) | HYPNOTIC THERAPEUTICS | Edinburgh | 1853 |
USD - | 180.00 |
| 1578 | Brown-Sequard (C. E.) | Course of lectures on the physiology and pathology of the central nervous system | Philadelphia | 1860 |
USD - | Not Sold |
| 1579 | BURNS (ALLAN) | OBSERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE MOST FREQUENT AND IMPORTANT DISEASES OF THE HEART | Edinburgh | 1809 |
USD - | 264.00 |
| 1580 | Castro Lusitanus (Rodericus a) | De universa muliebrium morborum medicina | Hamburg | 1628 |
USD - | 43.00 |
| 1581 | Charcot (J. M.) | Lecons sur les maladies du systeme nerveux faites a la Salpetrie | Paris | 1875-87 |
USD - | 120.00 |
| 1582 | CHOLERA | USD - | 108.00 | |||
| 1583 | Rogers (Samuel) | CHOLERA | USD - | 72.00 | ||
| 1584 | Cox (Joseph Mason) | Dissertatio medica inauguralis quaedam de mania complectens | Leiden | 1787 |
USD - | 108.00 |
| 1585 | Creighton (Charles) | A history of epidemics in Britain from A.D. 664 to the extinction of plague | Cambridge | 1891-94 |
USD - | 48.00 |
| 1586 | Creighton (Charles) | A history of epidemics in Britain | Cambridge | 1891-94 |
USD - | 34.00 |
| 1587 | Clusius (Carolus) | Rariorum plantarum historia | Antwerp | 1601 |
USD - | 60.00 |
| 1588 | Koecker (Leonard) | DENTISTRY | 1826 |
USD - | 77.00 | |
| 1589 | Nasmyth (Alexander) | DENTISTRY | 1900 |
USD - | 48.00 | |
| 1590 | Plenk (Joseph Jacob) | Dentistry | Vienna | 1778 (at end: Budapest, typis Regiae Universitatis, 1778) |
USD - | 101.00 |
| 1591 | Tomes (John) | Dentistry | 1848 |
USD - | 48.00 | |
| 1592 | Diderot (Denis) and Jean d'Alembert | Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire des sciences | USD - | 132.00 | ||
| 1593 | Dobson (Matthew) | A medical commentary on fixed air | USD - | 101.00 | ||
| 1594 | Duncan (Andrew) | Miscellaneous poems extracted from the records of the Circulation Club at Edinburgh | Edinburgh | 1818 |
USD - | 53.00 |
| 1595 | Fabricius Hildanus (Guilelmus) | Opera observationum et curationum medico-chirurgicarum | USD - | 43.00 | ||
| 1596 | Farr (Samuel) | Elements of medical jurisprudence | Edinburgh | 1828 |
USD - | 67.00 |
| 1597 | Ferriar (John) | An essay towards a theory of apparitions | 1813 |
USD - | 5.00 | |
| 1598 | Finlayson (James) | Account of the life and works of Maister Peter Lowe | 1930 |
USD - | 24.00 | |
| 1599 | Fontana (Felice) | De irritabilitatis legibus nunc primum sancitis | Lucca | 1766 (altered by hand to 1767) |
USD - | 48.00 |
| 1600 | Fontana (Felice) | Traite sur le venin de la vipere sur les poisons Americains | Florence | 1781 |
USD - | 72.00 |
| 1601 | Forbes (John) | Alexander Tweedie and John Conolly | 1833-35 |
USD - | 38.00 | |
| 1602 | Fyfe (Andrew) | A compendium of the anatomy of the human body | Edinburgh | 1800 |
USD - | 10.00 |
| 1603 | Galenus | Venice | 1609 |
USD - | 12.00 | |
| 1604 | Gall (F. J.) and J. C. Spurzheim | Anatomie et physiologie du systeme nerveux en general et du cerveau en particulier | Paris | 1810 |
USD - | 96.00 |
| 1605 | Garrison (Fielding H.) | An introduction to the history of medicine | 1926 |
USD - | 58.00 | |
| 1606 | Gibson (George Alexander) | Diseases of the heart and aorta | New York | [1921] |
USD - | 132.00 |
| 1607 | Gilchrist (Ebenezer) | The use of sea voyages in medicine | 1792 |
USD - | 77.00 | |
| 1608 | Gould (George M.) and W. L. Pyle | Anomalies and curiosities of medicine | USD - | 29.00 | ||
| 1609 | Gowers (Sir W. R.) | A manual of diseases of the nervous system | 1886-88 |
USD - | 115.00 | |
| 1610 | Gowers (Sir W. R.) | The diagnosis of diseases of the spinal cord | 1879 |
USD - | 72.00 | |
| 1611 | Hales (Stephen) | Statical essays containing vegetable staticks or an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables | 1738-40 |
USD - | 19.00 | |
| 1612 | Haller (Albert von) | Icones anatomicae quibus praecipue aliquae partes corporis humani delineatae propoununtur | Goettingen | 1756 |
USD - | 28.00 |
| 1613 | Haller (Albrecht von) | Elementa physiologiae corporis humani | Lausanne; Leiden | 1757-63; 1764-66 |
USD - | 48.00 |
| 1614 | HAVERS (CLOPTON) | OSTEOLOGIA NOVA OR SOME NEW OBSERVATIONS OF THE BONES | 1691 |
USD - | 672.00 | |
| 1615 | Macdonald (Angus) | HEART DISEASE | USD - | 60.00 | ||
| 1616 | HILLARY (WILLIAM) | OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHANGES OF THE AIR AND THE CONCOMITANT EPIDEMICAL DISEASES IN THE ISLAND OF BARBADOES | 1766 |
USD - | 180.00 | |
| 1617 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE | USD - | 72.00 | |||
| 1618 | Hodgkin (Thomas) | On the mode of selecting and remunerating medical men for professional attendance on the poor | Lindfield | 1836 |
USD - | 53.00 |
| 1619 | Hunter (John) | The works | 1835-37 |
USD - | 120.00 | |
| 1620 | Hunter (John) | Essays and observations on natural history | 1861 |
USD - | 43.00 | |
| 1621 | Hunter (William) | The anatomy of the human gravid uterus | 1851 |
USD - | 108.00 | |
| 1622 | Jackson (John Hughlings) | Selected writings | 1931-32 |
USD - | 24.00 | |
| 1623 | Jackson (Seguin Henry) | A treatise on sympathy in two parts | 1781 |
USD - | 144.00 | |
| 1624 | Kolliker (Dr. A.) | Mikroskopische Anatomie oder Gewebelehre des Menschen | USD - | 36.00 | ||
| 1625 | Lagrange (F.) and E. Valude | Encyclopedie francaise d'ophthalmologi | 1875 |
USD - | 60.00 | |
| 1626 | Langenbeck (Conrad Johann Martin) | De retina observationes anatomico-pathologicae | USD - | 58.00 | ||
| 1627 | Larrey (Baron Dominique Jean) | Clinique chirurgicale exercee particulierement dans les camps et les hopitaux militaires depuis 1792 jusqu'en 1829 | Paris | November 1829 |
USD - | 43.00 |
| 1628 | Latham (P. M.) | Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine comprising diseases of the heart | 1845 |
USD - | 53.00 | |
| 1629 | Lebert (H.) | Physiologie pathologique ou recherches sur | Paris | 1845 |
USD - | 24.00 |
| 1630 | Lempriere (William) | Practical observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica | 1799 |
USD - | 101.00 | |
| 1631 | Leslie (John) | A short account of experiments and instruments depending on the relations of air to heat and moisture | Edinburgh | 1813 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 1632 | Leuret (Francois) | Anatomie comparee du systeme nerveux considere dans ses rapport avec l'intelligence | Paris | 1839-1823 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 1633 | Lewes (W.) | Commercium philosophico-technicum or philosophical commerce of art designed as an attempt to improve arts | 1763 |
USD - | 101.00 | |
| 1634 | Lister (Joseph, Baron) | Collected papers | Oxford | 1809 |
USD - | 125.00 |
| 1635 | Liston (Robert) | Memoir on the formation and connexions of the crural arch and other parts concerned in inguinal and femoral hernia | Edinburgh | 1819 |
USD - | 72.00 |
| 1636 | Lyell (Sir Charles) | The geological evidences of the antiquity of man | 1871 |
USD - | 29.00 |
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Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 JulySotheby’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 - 30,000Bonhams, 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 - 250,000Bonhams, 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 - $120,000Bonhams, 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 - 120,000Bonhams, June 14-23: A New Charter for Virginia, A Response to the First Armed Rebellion in the American Colonies. Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Earliest obtainable printing of the Bill of Rights. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Edward Curtis Orotone. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Butter or Dessert Plate from FDR's State Dinner Service. Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000Bonhams, June 14-23: An Early Large-Format Plan of the City of Washington. Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500Bonhams, June 14-23: Containing the First Map to Name the Hudson River. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000Bonhams, June 14-23: America's First Major Novelist, a Complete Chapter in Autograph Manuscript by James Fenimore Cooper. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000Bonhams, June 14-23: The Only Full-Length Book by Jefferson, with the Justly Famous Map. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000 -
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. -
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old 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 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950