Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, BARTHOLOMEW,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
398 Bacon (Sir Francis) Baconiana or certain genuine remains of Sir Francis Bacon

USD - 39.20
399 Bacon (Roger) De arte chymiae Frankfurt

1603

 USD - 56.00
400 Bailly (Jean Sylvain) Historie de l'astronomie ancienne depuis son origine jusqu'a l'etablissement de l'ecole d'Alexandrie Paris

1775

 USD - 39.20
401 Barba (Albaro Alonso) Metallurgie ou l'art de tirer et de purifier les metaux Paris

1751

 USD - 56.00
402 Barchusen (Johannes Conrad) Elementa chemiae Leiden

1718

 USD - 112.00
403 Barthez (P. J.) Nouveaux elemens de la science de l'homme

USD - 19.60
404 Basilius Valentinus Hamburg

1677

 USD - 56.00
405 Basilius Valentinus Hamburg

1740

 USD - 50.40
406 Becher (Johann Joachim) Institutiones chimicae prodromae id est Amsterdam

1664

 USD - 98.00
407 Becher (Johann Joachim) Tripus Hermeticus Fatidicus Frankfurt

1689

 USD - 140.00
408 Becher (Johann Joachim) Opuscula chymica rariora Nuremberg & Altorf

1719

 USD - 5.60
409 Beguin (Johannes) Tyrocinium chymicum

USD - 16.80
410 Berthelot (Marcel Pierre Eugene) La chimie au moyen age Paris

1893

 USD - 112.00
411 Bircherodius (Janus) Tractatio curiosa de terra et aqua in qua terrae origo Frankfurt

1694

 USD - 28.00
412 Browne (Edward G.) Arabian medicine

USD - 11.20
413 Buffon (G. L. L., Comte de) Storia naturale il moderno Buffon Zoologia-Botanica-Mineralogica di Blancard e Chenu Naples Milan, Rome

[c. 1840]

 USD - 5.60
414 Caillet (Albert L.) Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes Paris

1913

 USD - 61.60
415 Castagnac (Gabriel de) L'or potable qui guarit de tous maux Paris

1611

 USD - 50.40
416 Coelum philosophorum die auf die Liebhaber der wahren Hermetischen Weissheit ihre Influenzen herabflossende

USD - 19.60
417 Crescentius (Petrus) De agricultura Basle

August 1538

 USD - 61.60
418 Crollius (Oswald) La Royalle Chymie Paris

1633

 USD - 16.80
419 Cudworth (Ralph) The true intellectual system of the universe

1678

 USD - 78.40
420 Dessade (J. F.) La bio-psychologie des mages primitifs de la Chaldee et de l'Egypte

USD - 22.40
421 Dickinson (Edmund) Physica vetus et vera sive tractatus de naturali veritate hexaemeri Mosaici

1702

 USD - 44.80
422 Digby (Sir Kenelm) Discours fait en une celeebre assemblee touchant la guerison des playes par la poudre de sympathie Paris

1681

 USD - 22.40
423 Dorn (Gerard) Chymisticum artificium naturae [Leiden]

1568-69

 USD - 78.40
424 Dorn (Gerard) Clavis totius philosophiae chymisticae Herborn

1594

 USD - 50.40
425 D'Espagnet (Jean) Enchiridion physicae restitutae in quo verus naturae concentus exponitur Paris

1638

 USD - 39.20
426 Fabre (Pierre Jean) Opera Frankfurt

1652

 USD - 50.40
427 Fabre (Pierre Jean) Die hell-scheinende Sonne am alchymistischen Firmament des hochteutschen Horizons Nuremberg

1705

 USD - 28.00
428 Ferguson (John) Bibliotheca chemica Glasgow

1906

 USD - 22.40
429 Fliscus (Mauritius, Count) Decas de fato annisque fatalibus tam hominis quam regnis mundi Frankfurt

1665

 USD - 28.00
430 Fludd (Robert) Katholikon medicorum Kaytoptron in quo quasi speculo politissimo morbi Frankfurt, Fitzer

1631

 USD - 100.80
431 Fludd (Robert) Summun bonum quod est verum Magiae Frankfurt

1633

 USD - 364.00
432 FLUDD (ROBERT) MOSAICALL PHILOSOPHY grounded upon the essential truth

1659

 USD - 308.00
433 Givry (Grillot de) Le Musee des sorciers mages et alchimistes Paris

1929

 USD - 19.60
434 Harvey (Gideon) The third edition of the vanities of philosophy and physick

1702

 USD - 19.60
435 Hayn (Johann) Trifolium medicum oder drey hochst-nutzliche tractatlein Frankfurt

1700

 USD - 19.60
436 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS Bordeaux

1579

 USD - 128.80
437 Jablonski (Paul Ernst) Pantheon Aegyptiorum sive de Diis eorum commentarius Frankfurt

1750-52

 USD - 14.00
438 Joachim (Abbot) Vaticinia sive Prophetiae Venice

1600

 USD - 98.00
439 Kerckringius (Theodor) Commentarius in currum triumphalem Antimonii Basilii Valentini Amsterdam

1671

 USD - 33.60
440 Khunrath (Heinrich) Zebelis regis et sapientis Arabum vetustissimi de interpretatione quorundam accidentium Prague

[c 1610]

 USD - 56.00
441 Kircher (Athanasius) Turris Babel sive Archontologia Amsterdam

1679

 USD - 11.20
442 Konig (Emanuel) Regnum minerale generale et speciale Basle

1703

 USD - 28.00
443 Lacinius (Janus) Pretiosa Margarita novella de thesauro ac pretiosis-sima philosophorum lapide

USD - 56.00
444 Lancilotti (Carlo) Der brennende Salamander oder Zerlegung Frankfurt

1681

 USD - 39.20
445 Lilly (William) History of his life and times written by himself

USD - 11.20
446 Linden (A. von der, ed.) Geheime Wissenschaften Berlin

1913-25

 USD - 5.60
447 Lullius (Raimundus) Apertorium item magica naturalis item de secretis naturae seu de Quinta essentia liber unus Nuremberg

1546

 USD - 84.00
448 Lullius (Raimundus) Mercuriorum liber Cologne

1567

 USD - 72.80
449 Lullius (Raimundus) Codicillus seu Vade Mecum Rouen

1651

 USD - 50.40
450 MAIER (MICHAEL) ARCANA ARCANISSIMA hoc est Hieroglyphica Aegyptio-Graeca vulgo necdum cognita Oppenheim

c. 1614

 USD - 168.00
451 Marengus (Joannes Baptista) Palladis Chymicae arcana detecta sive mineralogis naturalis et artificialis Genoa

1678

 USD - 50.40
452 Menasseh Ben

1709

 USD - 78.40
453 Monte- Snyder (Johannes de) Metamorphosis planetarum

USD - 25.20
454 Muller (Philip) Miracula & mysteria chymico-medica libris quinque Wittenberg

1623

 USD - 39.20
455 Musaeum Hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum Frankfurt

1678

 USD - 112.00
456 Musaeum Hermeticum

1953

 USD - 33.60
457 Newton (Sir Isaac) A treatise of the system of the world

1737

 USD - 56.00
458 Pagan (Comte de) L'astrologie naturelle Paris

1659

 USD - 2.80
459 Palmarius (Petrus) Lapis philosophicus dogmaticorum quo paracelsista Libavius restituitur Paris

1609

 USD - 61.60
460 Philaretes (Honorius) Jager-Lust oder philosophischer Nymphen- Fang das ist Hamburg

1679

 USD - 44.80
461 Planis Campy (David de) Les oeuvres contenant les plus beaux traitez de la medecine chymique Paris

1646

 USD - 61.60
462 Porta (Gio. Battista) Delia magia naturale Naples

1677

 USD - 8.40
463 Quercetanus ["Du Chesne"] (Joseph) Recueil des plus curieux et rares secrets touchant la medecine metallique et minerale Paris

1648

 USD - 22.40
464 Read (John) Prelude to chemistry

USD - 14.00
465 R[ichebourg] (J[ean] Mfaugin] d[e]) Bibliotheque des philosophes chimiques Paris

1754

 USD - 106.40
466 Salmon (William) Polygraphice or the arts of drawing

1701

 USD - 36.40
467 Tritheim (Joannes) Polygraphiae libri sex Cologne

1571

 USD - 56.00
468 Ulstadt (Philip) Coelum philosophorum seu uber de secretis naturae Strassburg

1630

 USD - 22.40
469 Ventura (Laurentius) De ratione conficiendi Lapidis philosophici liber unus Basle

1571

 USD - 84.00
470 Witestein (Karl) Disceptatio philosophica de quinta chymicorum essentia

USD - 5.60
471 Wolf (Christian) Cours de mathematique Paris

1747

 USD - 19.60
472 Wronski (Hoene) Nouveaux systemes de machines a vapeur fondes sur la decouverte des vraies lois des forces mecaniques

USD - 16.80
473 Wronski (Hoene) Messianisme ou reforme absolue du savoir humain, reforme des mathematiques

USD - 8.40
474 Brooke (E. Adveno) The Gardens of England

[1857]

 USD - 126.00
475 Hooker (Sir Joseph Dalton) The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya

1849

 USD - 67.20
476 Thirty plates illustrative of natural phenomena

1849

 USD - 8.40
477 Lindley (John) Collectanea botanica

1821

 USD - 112.00
478 Rochefort (Charles de) Histoire Naturelle des Iles Antilles de l'Amerique Rotterdam

1658

 USD - 117.60
479 MERIAN (M. S.) Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des Insectes de Surinam

USD - 896.00
480 Howitt (Samuel) A New Work of Animals

1811

 USD - 44.80
481 THORNTON (ROBERT JOHN) TEMPLE OF FLORA

1812

 USD - 364.00
482 SHELLEY (GEORGE ERNEST) THE BIRDS OF AFRICA

1896-1912

 USD - 364.00
483 Whitaker (J. I. S.) The Birds of Tunisia

1905

 USD - 61.60
484 BIRD DRAWINGS

[c. 1750]

 USD - 896.00
485 DRAWING BOOK

1829

 USD - 44.80
486 CHINESE WATER COLOUR DRAWINGS

USD - 448.00
487 GOULD (JOHN) THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA

[1840-]1848, [1851-]1869

 USD - 7,840.00
488 GOULD (JOHN) MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA

[1845-]1863

 USD - 1,176.00
489 GOULD (JOHN) A MONOGRAPH OF THE MACROPODIDAE

1841-42

 USD - 616.00
490 Waterhouse (F. H.) The dates of publication of some of the zoological works of John Gould

1885

 USD - 11.20
491 ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH) A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

1814

 USD - 420.00
492 Alken (Henry) Symptoms of being amused

1822

 USD - 28.00
493 Alken (Henry) Symptoms of being amused

1822

 USD - 44.80
494 Alken (Henry) Illustrations to popular songs

1822

 USD - 39.20
495 BOWYER (ROBERT) THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO

USD - 224.00
496 PYNE (WILLIAM HENRY) THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES of Windsor Castle

1819

 USD - 238.00
497 BOYDELL (JOHN AND JOSIAH) AND WILLIAM COMBE AN HISTORY OF THE RIVER THAMES

1794-96

 USD - 476.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
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