Sothebys: MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS, FLEMING,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 13, 1972 - November 13, 1972

Page Size: 567 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Paulus Aegineta	Opus de re medica	Venice	1542	GBP -	14.00
2	Prosperus Alpinus	De medicina methodica libri 13	Leiden	1719	GBP -	20.00
3	Caelius Aurelianus	De morbis acutis et chronicis libri VIII	Amsterdam	1722	GBP -	12.00
4	Guillaume de Baillou	Opera omnia	Geneva de Tournes	1762	GBP -	30.00
5	Paul Barbette	Opera omnia medica et chirurgica	Geneva	1688	GBP -	30.00
6	Stephanus Blancard	Anatomia reformata sive concinna corporis humani dissectio	Leiden	1688	GBP -	28.00
7	Friedrich Joh Blumenbach	Geschichte und Beschreibung der Knochen des menschlichen Korpers	Goettingen	1786	GBP -	16.00
8	J. Friedrich Blumenbach	Introductio in historiam medicinae litterariam	Goettingen	1786	GBP -	24.00
9	Jo. Friedrich Blumenbach	Institutiones physiologicae	Goettingen	1810	GBP -	5.00
10	Hermann Boerhaave	Methodus studii medici emaculata & accessionibus locupletata ab Augusto ab Haller	Amsterdam	1759	GBP -	30.00
11	Hermann Boerhaave	Institutiones medicae in usu annuae exercitationis domesticos	Goettingen	1747	GBP -	22.00
12	Hermann Boerhaave-Swieten (Gerard van)	Commentarii in Hermanni Boerhaave aphorismos de cognoscendis et curandis morbis	Leiden	1752-1772	GBP -	3.00
13	Johann Samuel Carl	Historia medica pathologico- therapeutica accedit exemplaris institutio de cognatione ac dependentia morborum ex Foresto revisa ab J. J. Schleirbach	Copenhagen	1738	GBP -	10.00
14	Elie Col de Vilars	Cours de Chirurgie	Paris	1738-41	GBP -	10.00
15	Henricus Josephus Collin	Nosocomii civici Pazmanniani annus medicus tertius sive observationes circa morbos acutos et chronicos	Vienna	1765-75	GBP -	14.00
16		Commentarii de rebus in scientia naturali et medicina gestis	Leipzig	1752-1779	GBP -	14.00
17	Fredericus Dekkers	Exercitationes practicae circa medendi methodum	Naples	1726	GBP -	18.00
18	Johannes Dolaeus	Encyclopaedia medicinae theoretico-practicae	Frankfurt	1684	GBP -	14.00
19	Johann Samuel Ersch	Literatur der Medicin seit der Mitte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts bis auf die neueste Zeit	Amsterdam & Leipzig	1812	GBP -	14.00
20	Jean Etienne Dominique Esquirol	Des maladies mentales considerees sous les rapports medical	Paris	1849	GBP -	20.00
21	Benjamin Fawcett	Über Melankolie. .. vornamlich uber die so genannte religiose Melankolie	Leipzig	1785	GBP -	30.00
22	H. D. Gaubius	Institutiones pathologiae medicinalis	Leipzig	1781	GBP -	16.00
23	Antonius de Haen	Ratio medendi ibn nosocomio practico	Vienna	1760-1774	GBP -	12.00
24	Stephen Hales	Statick des Gebluets bestehend in neuen Erfahrungen an lebendigen Thieren	Halle	1748	GBP -	24.00
25	Albrecht von Haller	Disputationum anatomicarum selectarum volumen	Goettingen	1746-52	GBP -	40.00
26	Albrecht von Haller	Primae lineae physiologiae	Goettingen	1751	GBP -	14.00
27	Albrecht von Haller	Bibliotheca botanica qua scripta ad rem herbariam facientia a rerum initiis recensuntur	Zurich	1771-72	GBP -	55.00
28	Albrecht von Haller	Bibliotheca anatomica qua scripta ad anatomen et physiologiam facientia a rerum initiis recensentur	Zurich	1774-77	GBP -	40.00
29	Albrecht von Haller	Bibliotheca medicinae practicae	Basle & Bern	1776-1779	GBP -	12.00
30	K. Himly	Lehrbuch der praktischen Heilkunde	Goettingen	1807	GBP -	12.00
31		Hippocrates	Tubingend	1591	GBP -	26.00
32	Friedrich Hoffmann	Opera omnia physico-medica denuo revisa	Geneva	1748	GBP -	10.00
33	Dr. Emil Kraepelin	Psychiatrie	Leipzig	1887	GBP -	22.00
34	Andre Levret	Observations sur les causes et les accidens de plusieurs accouchemens laborieux	Paris	1747-1751	GBP -	55.00
35	Andre Levret	Observations sur la cure radicale de plusieurs polypes de la matrice et de la gorge et du nez	Paris	1749	GBP -	40.00
36	Sir Charles Linne	Materia medica	Stockholm	1749	GBP -	75.00
37	Sir Charles Linne	Materia medica	Leipzig & Erlangen	1782	GBP -	28.00
38	Prosper Lucas	Traite philosophique et physiologique de l' heredite naturelle dans les etats de sante et de maladie du systeme nerveux	Paris	1847-50	GBP -	26.00
39	Chr. Gottlieb Ludwig	Institutiones physiologiae	Leipzig	1752	GBP -	8.00
40	Richard Mead	Opera medica	Goettingen	1748-49	GBP -	18.00
41	Johannes Zacharias Platner	Medical booksale catalogue	Leipzig	1750	GBP -	4.00
42		Medical Dissertations			GBP -	40.00
43		Medical Dissertations			GBP -	55.00
44		Medical dissertations			GBP -	180.00
45	Johannes Baptista Morgagni	Von dem Sitze und den Ursachen der Krankheiten	Altenburg	1771-1776	GBP -	45.00
46		Pharmacology	Hamburg	1768-72	GBP -	45.00
47		Pharmacopeia Wirtenbergica... accedunt syllabus medicamentorum compositorum	Stuttgart	1754	GBP -	22.00
48	Iohannes Zacharias Platner	Institutiones chirurgiae rationalis turn medicae turn manualis	Venice	1747	GBP -	35.00
49	Johannes Zacharias Platner	Institutiones chirurgiae rationalis	Berlin	1745	GBP -	24.00
50	Johann Heinrich Pott	Observationum et animadversionum chymicarum praecipue circa sal commune acidum salis vinonsum et Wismuthium	Berlin	1739-41	GBP -	42.00
51	August Gottlieb Richter	Chirurgische Bibliothek vol. 1 to 8 (of 15)	Gottingen	1771-1787	GBP -	22.00
52	August Gottlieb Richter	Abhandlung von den Bruchen	Goettingen	1785	GBP -	14.00
53	Vitus Riedlin	Lineae medicae singulos per menses quotidie ductae . . . anni 1696	Augsburg	1696-1700	GBP -	6.00
54	Lazarus Riverius	Medicina practica	Basle	1663	GBP -	12.00
55	Joannes Georg Roederer	Elementa artis obstetricae	Goettingen	1753	GBP -	48.00
56	Nils Rosen von Rosenstein	Anweisung zur Kenntniss und Cur der Kinderkrankheiten	Gotha & Goettingen	1766	GBP -	12.00
57	August Schaarschmidt	Osteologische (-Neurologische	Berlin	1749-52	GBP -	7.00
58	D. Samuel Schaarschmidt	Anweisung zu dem studio medico- chirurgico	Berlin	1752-54	GBP -	7.00
59	J. L. Schonlein	Allgemeine und specielle Pathologie und Therapie	St. Gallen	1841	GBP -	20.00
60	Johannes Scultetus	Armamentarium chirurgicum	Leiden	1693-92	GBP -	70.00
61	Daniel Sennert	Practia medicinae	Wittenberg	1636-49	GBP -	14.00
62	Eduard Caspar Jac. von Siebold	Abbildungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der theoretisch- praktischen Geburtshulfe	Reutlingen	1836	GBP -	20.00
63	William Smellie	Theoretische und praktische Abhandlung von der Hebammenkunst	Altenburg	1755-63	GBP -	38.00
64		Society of Physicians	Altenburg	1759-1776	GBP -	16.00
65	Kurt Sprengel	Handbuch der Pathologie	Leipzig	1802	GBP -	20.00
66	Dr. J. Steinbacher	Die Regenerationskur	Augsburg	1861-62	GBP -	4.00
67	Anton Storck	Abhandlung von dem sicheren Gebrauch und der Nutzbarkeit des Stechapfels	Zurich	1763	GBP -	16.00
68	Thomas Sydenham	Opuscula quotquot hactenus separatim prodiere omnia	Amsterdam	1683	GBP -	22.00
69	S. A. D. Tissot	A collection of his works	Lausanne	1758	GBP -	26.00
70	Balthasar Ludovicus Tralles	Usus opii salubris et noxius in morborum medela	Breslau	1759-62	GBP -	24.00
71	Michael Viszanik	Die Irrenheil-und Pflegeanstalten Deutschlands	Vienna	1845	GBP -	10.00
72	Robert Whytt	Beobachtungen uber die Natur	Leipzig	1766	GBP -	8.00
73	Jacques Benigne Winslow	Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain	Amsterdam	1732	GBP -	32.00
74	Johannes Woodward	Medicinae et morborum status una cum aetiologia incrementi	Zurich	1720	GBP -	22.00
75	Franz Zehetmayer	Die Herzkrankheiten	Vienna	1845	GBP -	14.00
76	Johann Georg Zimmermann	Von der Erfahrung im der Arzneykunst	Zurich	1763-64	GBP -	48.00
77	Theodoras Zwingerus	Fasciculus dissertationum medicarum selectiorum	Basle	1710	GBP -	3.00
78	Thomas Addison	on the constitutional and local effects of diseases of the supra-renal capsules		1855	GBP -	1,300.00
79	Matthew Baillie	A series of engravings accompanied with explanations which are intended to illustrate the morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body		1799	GBP -	130.00
80	Aurelius Cornelius Celsus	Medicinae libri VIII ... Quinti Sereni liber de medicina	Venice	1528	GBP -	45.00
81		Codex medicamentarius sive Pharmacopoeia Gallica jussu Regi optimi ... editus	Paris	1818	GBP -	3.00
82		Collection (A) of the yearly bills of mortality from 1657 to 1758 inclusive together with several other bills of earlier date		1759	GBP -	75.00
83	Jean Nicolas Corvisart	A treatise on the diseases and organic lesions of the heart and great vessels		1813	GBP -	80.00
84	William Cullen	A treatise of the materia medica	Edinburgh	1789	GBP -	40.00
85	Nicholas Culpeper	A physical directory or a translation of the dispensatory made by the College of Physitians of London		1651	GBP -	110.00
86	David D. Davis	Elements of operative midwifery comprising a description of certain new and improved powers for assisting difficult and dangerous labours		1825	GBP -	30.00
87	Rembertus Dodonaeus	Stirpium historiae pemptades sex	Antwerp	1616	GBP -	110.00
88	Gualtherus van Doeveren	Specimen observationum academicarum ad monstrorum historiam	Groningen & Leiden	1765	GBP -	32.00
89	Thomas Greenhill	NEKPOKHAEIA or the art of embalming wherein is shown the right of burial and funeral ceremonies especially that of preserving bodies after the Egyptian method		1705	GBP -	16.00
90	James Hart	Klinike (graece) or the diet of the diseases . . . wherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health		1633	GBP -	70.00
91	William Harvey	Exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis ad Joannem Riolanum filium	Rotterdam	1649	GBP -	380.00
92	William Harvey	Exercitationes anatomicae de motu cordis et sanguinis circulatione		1660	GBP -	65.00
93	William Harvey	Opera omnia a Collegio Medicorum Londinensi edita		1766	GBP -	48.00
94		Harveian Orations		1809	GBP -	22.00
95	Samuel Haworth	The true method of curing consumptions		1683	GBP -	22.00
96		Hippocrates	Paris	1621	GBP -	28.00
97	James Hope	Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy		1834	GBP -	65.00
98	Edward Jenner	An inquiry into the causes and effects of the Variolae Vaccinae		1800	GBP -	140.00
99	George Johnson	A defence of Harvey		1884	GBP -	18.00
100	S.J. Athanasius Kircher	Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis	Rome	1658	GBP -	260.00

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December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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