Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, BARTHOLOMEW,

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Auction Date
December 20, 1965 - December 20, 1965
Page Size: 727 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Adams (Joseph) A popular view of vaccine inoculation

1807

USD - 36.40
2 Akenside (Mark) De dysenteria commentarius

1764

USD - 19.60
3 Albertus Magnus Frankfurt

1581

USD - 33.60
4 ALMANACS

1678

USD - 98.00
5 Rider (Cardanus) ALMANACS

USD - 22.40
6 Armstrong (John) Medical Essays

1783

USD - 28.00
7 Armstrong (John, M.D.) Miscellanies

USD - 33.60
8 Arnaud (Jasper) An alarm to all persons touching their health and lives or a discovery of the most shocking

USD - 22.40
9 Bacon (Sir Francis) The historie of the reigne of King Henry the Seventh

1629

USD - 28.00
10 Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva Sylvarum or a naturall historie

USD - 22.40
11 Banting (Sir William) Letter on corpulence

USD - 67.20
12 Banting (Sir F. G.) and W. R. Campbell Further clinical experience with insulin

USD - 89.60
13 Beddoes (Thomas, M.D.) Essay on the causes Bristol & London

1799

USD - 67.20
14 Bibliographical Society

1958-63

USD - 5.60
15 Billroth (Dr. Theodor) Beobachtungs-Studien ueber Wundfieber und accidentelle Wundkrankheiten Berlin

1862

USD - 67.20
16 [Birch (John, Surgeon)] The fatal effects of cow-pox protection

1808

USD - 19.60
17 Bresgen (Alexander) De chloroformii in arte obstetrica usu

USD - 78.40
18 Brunfels (Otto) Catalogue illustrium medicorum sive de primis medicinae scriptoribus Strassburg

1530 [19 December 1529 at end]

USD - 252.00
19 Carro (Jean de) Observations et experiences sur l'inoculation de la vaccine Vienna

1801

USD - 56.00
20 Casper (Johann Ludwig) Commentarius de phlegmatia alba dolente

USD - 28.00
21 Channing (Walter, M.D.) Two cases of inhalation of ether in instrumental labour

1847

USD - 154.00
22 Cohnheim (Julius) and Charles S. Roy Untersuchungen uber die Circulation in den Nieren

USD - 22.40
23 Coxe (John Redman) Practical observations on vaccination or inoculation for the cow-pock Philadelphia

1802

USD - 84.00
24 Cullen (Dr. William) Clinical lectures Edinburgh

c. 1760

USD - 154.00
25 Curry (James, M.D.) A catalogue of the extensive

1820

USD - 22.40
26 Cushing (Dr. Harvey) A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia

USD - 39.20
27 Cushing (Dr. Harvey) Dr. Garth

USD - 39.20
28 Dionis (Pierre) Cours d'operations de chirurgie

USD - 11.20
29 Doulcet (Dr.) A report made by order of the government of a memoir containing a new method for treating the child-bed or puerperal fever

1783

USD - 28.00
30 Efficacy of yeast (On the)

1815

USD - 28.00
31 Ehrlich (Dr. Paul) Die Wertbemessung des Diphtherieheilserums

USD - 36.40
32 ELLIOTSON (JOHN, M.D.) NUMEROUS CASES OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS WITHOUT PAIN IN THE MESMERIC STATE Philadelphia

1843

USD - 154.00
33 Fuchs (Eduard) Illustrierte Sittengeschichte Munich

[1912]

USD - 8.40
34 Gatinaria (Marcus) De curis egritudinum particularium noni Almansoris Practica uberrima Blassi Astarii du curis febrium

29 October 1506

USD - 182.00
35 Graeme (William) Historia morbi quo nuper mortuus est Thomas Hurdman

USD - 28.00
36 Harvey (William) The anatomical exercises concerning the motion of the heart and blood

1673

USD - 154.00
37 Harvey (William) The works

1847

USD - 16.80
38 Harvey (William) The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey

[1928]

USD - 44.80
39 Pellet (Thomas) Harveian Orations

1719-46

USD - 210.00
40 Nicholls (A. Fr.) Harveian Orations etc.

USD - 56.00
41 Hecker (J. F. C.) The epidemics of the Middle Ages

USD - 28.00
42 Heidler (Dr. Carl) Ueber die Gas-Baeder in Marienbad

USD - 5.60
43 HELMHOLTZ (HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON) BESCHREIBUNG EINES AUGEN-SPIEGELS ZUR UNTERSUCHUNG DER NETZHAUT IM LEBENDEN AUGE Berlin

1851

USD - 672.00
44 Highmore (Nathaniel) Case of a foetus found in the abdomen of a young man at Sherborne

1815

USD - 50.40
45 History of medicine

USD - 33.60
46 Hodgkin (Thomas) On some morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen

USD - 112.00
47 Hovorka (Dr. O. von) and Dr. A. Kronfeld Vergleichende Volksmedizin Stuttgart

1908-09

USD - 30.80
48 Hunter (William) Medical commentaries part I

1762

USD - 56.00
49 Inoculation

1722

USD - 812.00
50 Neal (Daniel) Inoculation

1722

USD - 392.00
51 Inoculation

USD - 56.00
52 Insanity

USD - 145.60
53 Insanity

USD - 140.00
54 Insanity

1718

USD - 280.00
55 Insanity

1618

USD - 280.00
56 INSANITY

1701

USD - 308.00
57 Jackson (Charles T.)-Gay (Martin) A statement of the claims of Charles T

USD - 252.00
58 Jenner (Edward) An inquiry into the causes and effects of the Variolae Vaccinae

1801

USD - 126.00
59 Jenner (Edward) Onderzoek naar de Oorzaaken en Uitwerkselen der Variolae Vaccinae Haarlem

1801

USD - 112.00
60 Jenner (Edward) On the varieties and modifications of the Vaccine pustule occasioned by an herpetic state of the skin Cheltenham

1806

USD - 182.00
61 Jenner (Edward) On the varieties and modifications of the Vaccine pustule occasioned by an herpetic state of the skin Gloucester

1819

USD - 140.00
62 Lister (Joseph, Lord) Observations on ligature of arteries on the antiseptic system

USD - 280.00
63 Lockyer (Lyonel) An advertisement concerning those most excellent pills called Pilulae radiis solis extractae being an universal medicine

USD - 33.60
64 London's dreadful visitation or a collection of all the bills of mortality for this present year

1665

USD - 28.00
65 Maimonides (Rabbi Moses) Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni Bologna

[29 May 1489]

USD - 89.60
66 MALPIGHI (MARCELLO) DE STRUCTURA GLANDULARUM CONGLOBATARUM CONSIMILUMQUE PARTIUM EPISTOLA

1689

USD - 560.00
67 MAXIMINUS (JACOBUS) THE VIRTUES OF FOUR MEDICINAL STONES

1622

USD - 154.00
68 Mead (Richard) A mechanical account of poisons

USD - 61.60
69 Medical Dissertations of the 17th century

USD - 33.60
70 Themmen (Phoebus H.) Medical Dissertations of the 18th century

USD - 61.60
71 Kranichfeld (F. G. G.) Medical Dissertations of the 19th century

USD - 70.00
72 Dawson (John J.) Medical Dissertation [Baltimore]

1870-71

USD - 14.00
73 Medical Lecture notes

USD - 11.20
74 Millingen (J. G.) Curiosities of medical experience

USD - 28.00
75 Mitchell (Silas Weir), George R. Morehouse and W. W. Keen Gunshot wounds and other injuries of nerves Philadelphia

1864

USD - 117.60
76 MOORE (JAMES) A METHOD OF PREVENTING OR DIMINISHING PAIN IN SEVERAL OPERATIONS OF SURGERY

1784

USD - 560.00
77 Moreau (J. L.) Traite historique et pratique de la vaccine Paris

1801

USD - 28.00
78 Morgagni (Joannes Baptista) Nova institutionum medicarum idea Padua

1712

USD - 61.60
79 Morton (T. G.) and Charles T. Jackson. Stanly (Edward) and Alex Evans

USD - 448.00
80 Morton (William J.) The invention of anaesthetic inhalation

USD - 308.00
81 Moss (William) An essay on the management and feeding of infants Philadelphia

1808

USD - 106.40
82 Mundinius (Mundinus) Ad disputationem de genitura additamentum apologeticum in quo Aemylii Parisani opinionem de seminis a toto proventu Venice

1625

USD - 33.60
83 Mussey (Reuben D.) Experiments and observations on cutaneous absorption

USD - 33.60
84 Naegele (Dr. Fr. Carl) Ueber den Mechanismus der Geburt Heidelberg

1822

USD - 61.60
85 [Needham (Dr. Caspar)] Bill for attending Mrs. Southwell

USD - 22.40
86 O-Scanlan (Timotheo) La inoculacion vindicada Santiago

1786

USD - 39.20
87 Osier (Sir William) Student's notes Montreal

1882

USD - 39.20
88 Osier (Sir William) The principles and practice of medicine New York

1897

USD - 5.60
89 Osier (Sir William) A concise history of medicine

USD - 117.60
90 Osier (Sir William) Notes on intestinal diverticula

USD - 182.00
91 Osler (Sir William) Cushing (Dr. Harvey) William Osler

USD - 33.60
92 P. (C.) The sheepherd's new kalendar or the citizen's and country man's daily companion

1700

USD - 16.80
93 Pasteur (Louis) Report of Committee of enquiry into M. Pasteur's treatment of hydrophobia

[1887]

USD - 67.20
94 Percival (Dr. Thomas) Extracts from the medical ethics Philadelphia

1823

USD - 5.60
95 Politzer (Dr. Adam) Geschichte der Ohrenheilkinde Stuttgart

1907-13

USD - 67.20
96 Quincy (Josiah) Remarks on the letter of the Hon. Rufus Choate to the "Whig State Committee of Maine"

USD - 8.40
97 Raspe (Rudolph Eric) Gulliver revived or the singular travels Oxford

1786

USD - 33.60
98 Rayleigh (Lord) On the manufacture and theory of diffraction-gratings

USD - 28.00
99 Reed (Walter) James Carroll and A. Agramonte

USD - 1,400.00
100 Richardson (Benjamin W.) On the anaesthetic properties of the Lycoperdon Proteus or common puff ball

1853

USD - 112.00
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