Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, BARTHOLOMEW,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
101 Robinson (James) A treatise on the inhalation of the vapour of ether for the prevention of pain in surgical operations

USD - 182.00
102 Robinson (Victor) Victory over pain, a history of anaesthesia

USD - 33.60
103 Rungius (Johannes) De praecipuis visus symptomatis eorumque causis physica et medica contemplatio Basle

1578

USD - 67.20
104 Rush (Benjamin) Sixteen introductory lectures to courses of lectures on the institutes and practice of medicine Philadelphia

1811

USD - 182.00
105 Rutherford (Ernest, Lord) and Hans Geiger The charge and nature of the a particle

1908

USD - 89.60
106 RYFF (WALTER) NEW KOCHBUCH FUR DIE KRANKEN Frankfurt

1545

USD - 1,120.00
107 Sacco (Luigi) Osservazioni pratiche sull'uso del vajuolo vaccino Milan

1802

USD - 44.80
108 Sacco (Luigi) Piano per rendere generale l'uso ed i vantaggi della vaccina

USD - 22.40
109 Sanctorius (Sanctorius) De medicina statica aphorismi Paris

1770

USD - 22.40
110 Sarn (Peter von, M. D.) The various kinds of the heart or rather stomach-pain Northampton

[c. 1780?]

USD - 30.80
111 Sennert (Daniel) Practiae medicinae liber quartus qui est de morbis mulierum et infantium Paris

1633

USD - 61.60
112 Sherrington (Sir Charles S.) Note on some changes in the blood of the general circulation

USD - 70.00
113 SIMPSON (Sir JAMES Y.) LOCAL ANAESTHESIA: notes on its artificial production by chloroform etc. in the lower animals and in man

USD - 448.00
114 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Midwifery Edinburgh

1862-63

USD - 39.20
115 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Remarks on the alleged fatal case of chloroform inhalation

USD - 154.00
116 Simpson (Sir James Y.) Ovariotomy

USD - 72.80
117 Smellie (William) A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery

1752

USD - 84.00
118 Smith (Nathaniel) Practical essay on typhus fever New York

1824

USD - 84.00
119 Smith (Nathaniel, M.D.) Medical and surgical memoirs Baltimore

1831

USD - 22.40
120 Smith (Protheroe) On the employment of ether by inhalation in obstetric practice

USD - 33.60
121 Stoltz (J. A.) De l'etherisation appliquee a la pratique des accouchements

USD - 22.40
122 Sudhoff (Karl) Deutsche medizinische Inkunabeln Leipzig

1908

USD - 39.20
123 Swammerdam (Johannes) Miraculum naturae sive uteri muliebris fabrica Leiden

1729

USD - 70.00
124 Sylvius (Jacobus) Methodus sex librorum Galeni in differentiis et causis morborum et symptomatum Venice

1554

USD - 61.60
125 Tariffa de medicinali semplici e compositi per norma de Farmacisti della Provincia di Ferrara Ferrara

1817

USD - 16.80
126 Trotter (Thomas) Medicina nautica an essay on the diseases of seamen

USD - 8.40
127 Vaccination

1804

USD - 33.60
128 Vaccination

USD - 22.40
129 Vaccination

USD - 16.80
130 Virchow (Rudolf) Darstellung der Lehre von den Trichinen

USD - 84.00
131 WARREN (JOHN C.) EFFECTS OF CHLOROFORM AND OF STRONG CHLORIC ETHER AS NARCOTIC AGENTS Boston

1849

USD - 448.00
132 Welch (William H.) Morbid conditions caused by Bacillus Aerogenes Capsulatus

USD - 89.60
133 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 - 266.00
134 Willis (Dr. Thomas) Opera omnia (edited by Gerard Blasius) Venice

1708

USD - 5.60
135 Baume (Antoine) Chymie experimentale et raisonnee Paris

1783

USD - 39.20
136 Boyle (Robert) Certain physiological essays

1661

USD - 224.00
137 BOYLE (ROBERT) TRACTS OF A DISCOVERY OF THE ADMIRABLE RAREFACTION OF THE AIR

1671

USD - 266.00
138 DALTON (JOHN) A NEW SYSTEM OF CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY Manchester

1808-10

USD - 728.00
139 Frohawk (F. W.) Natural history of British butterflies

[1914]

USD - 14.00
140 Hooke (Robert) Philosophical experiments and observations

1726

USD - 140.00
141 Lavoisier (Antoine Laurent) Elements of chemistry

1802

USD - 89.60
142 MAYOW (JOHN) TRACTATUS QUINQUE MEDICO-PHYSICI QUORUM PRIMUS AGIT DE SAL-NITRO ET SPIRITU NITRO-AEREO Oxford

1674

USD - 2,660.00
143 Morris (Rev. F. O.) A history of British butterflies

1860

USD - 2.80
144 Priestley (Joseph) Experiments and observations on different kinds of air

1781-76-77

USD - 61.60
145 Royal Society Amsterdam

1672

USD - 25.20
146 Royal Society

1912

USD - 5.60
147 ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO Florence

1691

USD - 123.20
148 AEGIDIUS CORBELIENSIS [Gilles de Corbeil] DE URINIS ET PULSIBUS

USD - 210.00
149 AGRICOLA (GEORGIUS) DE ORTU ET CAUSIS SUBTERRANEORUM Basle

1558

USD - 252.00
150 Apollonius Pergaeus Florence

1661

USD - 112.00
151 Aristotle Paris

1599

USD - 134.40
152 Niphus (Augustinus) Aristotle Venice

1531

USD - 140.00
153 ASHMOLE (ELIAS) THEATRUM CHEMICUM BRITANNICUM containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers

1652

USD - 78.40
154 Babbage (Charles) Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes

1830

USD - 67.20
155 Babbage (Charles) Reflections on the decline of science in England

1830

USD - 84.00
156 Babbage (Charles) The exposition of 1851 or views of industry

1851

USD - 89.60
157 Babbage (Charles) Passages from the life of a philosopher

1864

USD - 224.00
158 Bartoli (Cosimo) Del modo di misurare le distantie Venice

1589

USD - 106.40
159 BAUHINUS (CASPAR) THEATRUM ANATOMICUM Frankfurt

1605

USD - 61.60
160 Beccaria (Giambatista) Dell' elettricismo artificiale e naturale libri due Turin

1753

USD - 95.20
161 BECQUEREL (HENRI) RECHERCHES SUR UNE PROPRIETE NOUVELLE DE LA MATIERE ACTIVITE RADIANTE SPONTANEE OU RADIOACTIVITE DE LA MATIERE Paris

1903

USD - 126.00
162 Behring (Emil Adolf von) Die Geschichte der Diptherie Leipzig

1893

USD - 33.60
163 Belli (Silvio) Libro del misurare con la vista Venice

1565

USD - 78.40
164 Benedetti (Giovanni Battista) De gnomonum umbrarumque Turin

1574

USD - 106.40
165 Benedictus (Alexander) De re medica opus insigne Basle

1549

USD - 56.00
166 Beneke (Dr. Friedrich Eduard) Lehrbuch der Psychologie Berlin

1833

USD - 154.00
167 BERRETTINI (PIETRO) TABULAE ANATOMICAE Rome

1741

USD - 266.00
168 BOSCOVICH (ROGER JOSEPH) DE INAEQUALITATIBUS QUAS SATURNUS ET JUPITER SIBI MUTUO VIDENTUR inducere praesertim circa tempus conjunctionis Rome

1756

USD - 238.00
169 BOYLE (ROBERT) THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST OR CHYMICO-PHYSICAL DOUBTS AND PARADOXES TOUCHING THE SPAGYRIST'S PRINCIPLES COMMONLY CALLED HYPOSTATICAL

1661

USD - 11,760.00
170 [Boyle (Robert)] Occasional Reflections upon several Subjects

1665

USD - 224.00
171 BOYLE (ROBERT) NEW EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS TOUCHING COLD

1665

USD - 210.00
172 Boyle (Robert) Tentamina quaedam physiologica diversis temporibus et occasionibus conscripta

USD - 25.20
173 Boyle (Robert) Of the Reconcileableness of Specifick Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy

1685

USD - 67.20
174 Bretonneau (Pierre Fidele) Des inflammations speciales du tissu muqueux et en particulier de la diphtherite Paris

1826

USD - 112.00
175 Briquet (Dr. P.) Traite clinique et therapeutique de l'hysterie Paris

1859

USD - 67.20
176 Brown (Richard) Principles of Practical Perspective

USD - 14.00
177 Cardanus (Hieronymus) Quaedam opuscula Basle

March 1559

USD - 106.40
178 Cardanus (Hieronymus) De utilitate ex adversis capienda libri IV Basle

1561

USD - 173.60
179 Casalius (Johannes Baptista) Sacrae prophanaeque religionis vetustoria monumenta hoc est symbolicus et hieroglyphicus Aegyptiorum cultus

USD - 5.60
180 CHARNOCK (JOHN) HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE

1801-1802

USD - 28.00
181 Clavius (Christophorus) Horologium nova descriptio Rome

1599

USD - 106.40
182 Cordier (F. S.) Les champignons de la France Paris

1870

USD - 39.20
183 DASYPODIUS (OR HASENFUSS) (CONRADUS) Strassburg

1580

USD - 252.00
184 DESCARTES (RENE) PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE Amsterdam

1644

USD - 168.00
185 Duval (Jacques) Des hermaphrodite Rouen

1612

USD - 252.00
186 EINSTEIN (ALBERT) DIE GRUNDLAGE DER ALLGEMEINEN RELATIVITATSTHEORIE Leipzig

1916

USD - 952.00
187 EINSTEIN (ALBERT) Barter (E. G.) Abstract of argument from the manuscript of "Space and Time, and the theory of relativity"

USD - 448.00
188 Everardus (Antonius) Cosmopolitae historia naturalis comprehendens humani corporis atomiam at anatomicam delineationem Leiden

USD - 106.40
189 FERNELIUS (JOANNES) THERAPEUTICES UNIVERSALIS seu medendi rationis libri septem

USD - 78.40
190 Ferrari (Giovanni Baptista) De riorum cultura libri IV Rome

1633

USD - 89.60
191 Fouquet (Henri) Essai sur le pouls

1767

USD - 19.60
192 FRACASTORIUS (HIERONYMUS) DE SYMPATHIA ET ANTIPATHIA RERUM LIBER UNUS Venice

1546

USD - 728.00
193 Fracastorius (Hieronymus) Syphilis sive morbus gallicus

USD - 154.00
194 Galilei (Galileo) Opere Bologna

1655-56

USD - 168.00
195 GALLUCCI (GIOVANNI PAOLO) THEATRUM MUNDI ET TEMPORIS in quo Venice

1588

USD - 238.00
196 Gallucci (Giovanni Paolo) De fabrica et usu cuiusdam instrumenti ad omnia horarum genera describenda Venice

USD - 72.80
197 GLEICHEN-RUSSWORM (G. FR. BARON DE) DECOUVERTES LES PLUS NOUVELLES DANS LE REGNE VEGETAL OU OBSERVATIONS MICROSCOPIQUES sur les parties de la generation des plantes Nuremberg

1770

USD - 266.00
198 GUERICKE (OTTO VON) EXPERIMENTA NOVA (UT VOCANT) Amsterdam

1672

USD - 672.00
199 Hevelius (Johannes) Dissertatio de nativa Saturni facie ejusque variis phasibus cert periodo redeuntibus cui addita est Danzig

1656

USD - 106.40
200 HIGHMORE (NATHANIEL) CORPORIS HUMANI DISQUISITIO ANATOMICA IN QUA SANGUINIS CIRCULATIONEM The Hague

1551

USD - 560.00
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