Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING NATURAL HISTORY, FOXGLOVE,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 01, 1984 - January 01, 1984
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Robert Smith Surtees | The Analysis of the Hunting Field | 1846 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 352.00 | |
| 202 | Robert Smith Surtees | Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities | 1843 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 506.00 | |
| 203 | George Turberville | The Booke of Falconrie or Hawking | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,870.00 | ||
| 204 | Izaak Walton | The Universal Angler | 1676 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 205 | Pietro Accolti | Lo inganno de gl'occhi | Florence | 1625 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 506.00 |
| 206 | Bernardus Albinus | Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii. . . auctor recognovit. . . denuo edidit | Leiden | 1761 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 207 | Albumasar | Augsburg | 7 February 1489 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,540.00 | |
| 208 | Alfonso X (King of Castile) Tabulae astronomicae | Venice | 4 July 1483 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 968.00 | |
| 209 | Georgius Agricola | Opera | Basle | 1563 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,530.00 |
| 210 | Alhazen | Basle | 1572 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,740.00 | |
| 211 | Petrus Apianus | Quadrans . . . Astronomicus recens inventus et nunc primum editus | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 715.00 | ||
| 212 | Petrus Apianus | Cosmographiae introductiocum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad earn rem necesariis | Venice | July 1541 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 418.00 |
| 213 | Petrus Apianus | Libro dela Cosmographia . . . augmentado por . . .Gemma Frisio . . . con otros dos libros del dicho Gemma | Antwerp | 1548 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 660.00 |
| 214 | Petrus Apianus | Cosmographia . . . per Gemmam Frisium . . . iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis | Paris | 1551 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 |
| 215 | Petrus Apianus | Cosmographia . . . per Gemmam Frisium . . . iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis | Paris | 1553 [dated at end: 1551] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 286.00 |
| 216 | Apollonius Pergaeus | Bologna | 1566 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 217 | Thomas Bartholinus | De nivis usu medico . . . accessit D.Erasmi Bartholini de figura nivis dissertatio | Copenhagen | 1661 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 385.00 |
| 218 | Bernard Forest de Belidor | L'architecture hydraulique ou l'art de conduire | Paris | 1737-1753 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,540.00 |
| 219 | J.J. Berzelius | An Attempt to establish a pure Scientific System of Mineralogy | 1814 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 253.00 | |
| 220 | Josephus Blancanus | Sphaera mundi seu cosmographia demonstrativa . . . in qua totius mundi fabrica | Modena | 1653-1654 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 |
| 221 | Pierre Boaistuau | Certaine Secrete wonders of Nature | 1569 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,485.00 | |
| 222 | Johann Elert Bode | Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung der Gestirne nebst Verzeichniss der Geraden Aufsteigung und Abweichung von 17240 Sternen | Berlin | 1801 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 935.00 |
| 223 | Robert Boyle | The Sceptical Chymist | 1661 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,750.00 | |
| 224 | Robert Boyle | Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy | Oxford | 1663-1671 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 550.00 |
| 225 | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Oxford | 1666 |
GBP 450.00 - 550.00 | 495.00 |
| 226 | Robert Boyle | Tracts ... Of a Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of the Air | 1671 |
GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | 385.00 | |
| 227 | Robert Boyle | The Excellency of Theology | 1674 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 165.00 | |
| 228 | Robert Boyle | New Experiments | 1681/2 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 550.00 | |
| 229 | Robert Boyle | Medicina Hydrostatica | 1690 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 880.00 | |
| 230 | Robert Boyle | The General History of the Air | 1692 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 231 | Sir William H. and Sir William L. Bragg | X Rays and Crystal Structure | 1915 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 232 | Richard Bright | Reports of Medical Cases | Richard Taylor for Longman | 1827 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,145.00 |
| 233 | Giuseppe da Capriglia Capuccino | Misura del Tempo cioe tratatto d'horologii da ruota di tre ordini | Padua | 1665 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,200.00 |
| 234 | Sir George Cayley | Governable Parachutes | 1852 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 220.00 | |
| 235 | Symphorien Champier | Practica nova in medicina | 19 March 1517 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 605.00 | |
| 236 | Michel Eugene Chevreul | De la loi du contraste simultane des couleurs et de l'assortiment des objets colores considere d'apres cette loi dans ses rapports avec la peinture | Paris | 1889 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 396.00 |
| 237 | William Reid Clanny | Practical Observations on Safety Lamps for Coal Mines | Sunderland | 1816 |
USD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 238 | Andreas Cleyer | Specimen Medicinae Sinicae | Frankfurt | 1682 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,620.00 |
| 239 | Nicolaus Copernicus | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium | Basle | (1566) |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 240 | William Cowper | Anatomia corporum humanorum centum et viginti tabulis | Utrecht | 1750 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 660.00 |
| 241 | Louis J.M. Daguerre | Historique et description des procedes du Daguerreotype et du Diorama | Paris | 1839 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 605.00 |
| 242 | John Dalton | Answer to Mathematical Question 850 | 1787 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 243 | Sir Humphry Davy | The Bakerian Lecture on some Chemical Agencies of Electricity | 1807 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 220.00 | |
| 244 | Sir Humphry Davy | Elements of Chemical Philosophy | 1812 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 245 | Domenico Delfino | Sommario di tutte le scientie | Venice | 1556 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 |
| 246 | Albert Einstein | Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie | Leipzig | 1916 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 385.00 |
| 247 | Euclid | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 396.00 | |||
| 248 | Euclid | Copenhagen | 1744 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 249 | Oliver Evans | Oliver Evans to his Counsel | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 250 | Gabrie Falloppius | Opera genuina omnia tarn practica quam theoretica | Venice | 1606 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 251 | Auger Ferrier | A Learned Astronomical discourse | 1593 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 252 | Samuel Foster | Postumi Fosteri | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 528.00 | ||
| 253 | Galileo Galilei | Sidereus Nuncius magna | GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 11,000.00 | ||
| 254 | Galileo Galilei | Dialogo . . . sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico | Florence | 1632 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,190.00 |
| 255 | Galileo Galilei | Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche | Leiden | 1638 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,870.00 |
| 256 | Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty | Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain . . . pour servir de suplement a celles qu'on a deja donnees au public . . . selon le nouvel art | Marseille | 1759 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,870.00 |
| 257 | William Gilbert | De magnete | Petrus Short | 1600 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,870.00 |
| 258 | Johann Rudolph Glauber | A Description of new Philosophical Furnaces | 1651-1652 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 259 | Francis Glisson | A Treatise of the Rickets being a disease common to children . . . enlarged | 1651 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 374.00 | |
| 260 | Otto von Guericke | Experimenta nova (ut vocant) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio primum a R.P. Gaspare Schotto . . . nunc vero . . . perfectius edita | Amsterdam | 1672 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,080.00 |
| 261 | Gideon Harvey | The Vanities of Philosophy & Physick | 1699 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 176.00 | |
| 262 | J.B. van Helmont | Ortus Medicinae id est initia physicae inaudita | Amsterdam | 1648 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 880.00 |
| 263 | Herman Hollerith | Complete Specification | 1889 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 572.00 | |
| 264 | Robert Hooke | Micrographia | 1665 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,850.00 | |
| 265 | Robert Hooke | Philosophical Collections | 1679 [-1682] |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 266 | Johannes de Ketham | Fasciculus medici[n] | Venice | 31 March 1522 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,530.00 |
| 267 | J. Koebel | Astrolabii declaratio | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 268 | CM. de La Condamine | Journal du voyage fait par ordre du Roi a l'equateur | Paris | 1751 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 220.00 |
| 269 | Francesco Lana Terzi | Prodromo overo saggio di alcune inventioni nuove premesso all' arte maestra opera . . . per mostrare li piu reconditi principii . . . della Naturale Filosofia | Brescia | 1670 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 990.00 |
| 270 | Pierre de La Primaudaye | The French Academie | 1586-1594-1601 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 572.00 | |
| 271 | Johann Caspar Lavater | Essays on Physiognomy . . . Translated from the French by Henry Hunter | 1789-1798 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 187.00 | |
| 272 | Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier | Traite elementaire de chimie | Paris | 1789 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 |
| 273 | Otto Lehmann | Flussige Kristalle sowie Plastizitat von Kristallen im allgemeinen | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 220.00 | ||
| 274 | M.V. Lomonosov | Polnoe Sobranie Sochineniy | Petersburg | 1784-1787 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 682.00 |
| 275 | Sir Charles Lyell | Principles of Geology being an Attempt to explain the former Changes of the Earth's Structure | 1830-1833 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 | |
| 276 | Tiberio Malfi da Montesarchio | Nuova prattica della decoratoria manuale et della sagnia | Naples | 1629 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 277 | Johann Heinrich von Madler and Wilhelm Beer | Der Mond | Berlin | c. 1832-1835 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 278 | Patrick Matthew | On Naval Timber and Arboriculture | Edinburgh | 1831 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 495.00 |
| 279 | Mauro Fiorentino | Venice | 1537 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 385.00 | |
| 280 | Cornelius Meyer | L'arte di restituire a Roma la tralasciata navigatione del suo Tevere divisa in tre parti | Rome | 1685 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 770.00 |
| 281 | James Clerk Maxwell | A Dynamical Theory of the Electomagnetic Field | 1865 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 550.00 | |
| 282 | Petrus van Musschenbroek | Essai de physique . . . Avec une description de nouvelles sortes de machines pneumatiques | Leiden | 1739 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 283 | Sir Isaac Newton | Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica | Cambridge | 1713 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 462.00 |
| 284 | Sir Isaac Newton | A Treatise on the System of the World | F. Fay ram | 1728 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 308.00 |
| 285 | Florence Nightingale | Notes on Nursing | [1860] |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 605.00 | |
| 286 | Muzio Oddi | De gli horologi solari | Venice | 1638 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 264.00 |
| 287 | Joannes Augustinus Pantheus | Voarchadumia contra Alchimiam | Venice | 1530 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,420.00 |
| 288 | William Paley | Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity | 1804 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 154.00 | |
| 289 | Claude Simon Passemant | Construction d'un telescope de reflexion de seize pouces de longueur | Paris | 1738 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 495.00 |
| 290 | Alessandro Piccolomini | De la Sfera del Mondo libri quattro in lingua Toscana . . . Delle Stelle Fisse | Venice | April 1540 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 |
| 291 | Claudius Ptolemaeus | Omnia quae extant opera | Basle | March 1551 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 |
| 292 | Agostino Ramelli | Le diverse et arteficiose machesie . . . composte in lingua Italiana et Francese | Paris | 1588 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,850.00 |
| 293 | Eucharius Roesslin | The Birth of mankynde | London | (1565) |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,520.00 |
| 294 | Juan de Rojas Sarmiento | Commentariorum in astrolabium quod planisphaerium vocant | Paris | 1550 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 204.00 |
| 295 | Cosmas Rosselius | Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae concionatoribus | Venice | 1579 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 296 | Nicola Sabbattini | Pratica di fabricar scene | Ravenna | 1638 (1637) |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 6,380.00 |
| 297 | St. Bartholomew's Hospital | GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,265.00 | |||
| 298 | Nicolaus Steno | De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus | Florence | 1669 |
GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,850.00 |
| 299 | William Salmon | Doron Medicum | 1683 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 300 | Gasparo Scaruffi | L'Alitinonfo . . . per fare ragione | Reggio | 1582 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,485.00 |
