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
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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    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.
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    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.
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