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
307	Sir William Congreve	A concise account of the origin and progress of the rocket system with a view of the apparent advantages		1807	GBP -	180.00
308	John Conolly	An inquiry concerning the indications of insanity with suggestions for the better protection and care of the insane		1830	GBP -	65.00
309	W. D. Conybeare and William Phillips	Outlines of the geology of England and Wales		1822	GBP -	26.00
310	Sir Astley Cooper	A treatise on dislocations and on fractures of the joints (with appendix)		1822[-23]	GBP -	45.00
311	Sir Astley Cooper	Illustrations of the diseases of the breast		1829	GBP -	70.00
312	Jonathan Couch	A history of the fishes of the British islands		1877-78	GBP -	60.00
313	George Crabb	Universal technological dictionary		1823	GBP -	10.00
314	William Curtis	Fundamenta entomologiae or an introduction to the knowledge of insects being a translation of the Fundamenta entomologicae of Linnaeus		1772	GBP -	16.00
315	Baron G. C. L. Cuvier	Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles	Paris	1834-36	GBP -	95.00
316	Baron Georges Cuvier	Le regne animal distribue d'apres son organisation	Paris		GBP -	320.00
317	Thomas Dancer	The medical assistant or Jamaica practice of physic	Kingston, Jamaica	1801	GBP -	60.00
318	J. B. D'Anville	Proposition d'une mesure de le terre	Paris	1735	GBP -	14.00
319	Charles Darwin	Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle		1840	GBP -	9.00
320	Charles Darwin	The variation of animals and plants under domestication		1868	GBP -	30.00
321	Charles Darwin	The expression of the emotions in man and animals		1872	GBP -	35.00
322	Charles Darwin	The power of movement in plants		1878	GBP -	100.00
323	Louis Jean Marie Daubenton	Observations on indigestion in which is satisfactorily shewn the efficacy of Ipecacuanha		1809	GBP -	30.00
324	David D. Davis	Elements of operative midwifery		1825	GBP -	10.00
325	Sir Humphry Davy	Six discourses delivered before the Royal Society at their anniversary meeting on the award of the Royal and Copley medals		1827	GBP -	40.00
326	Sir Humphry Davy	On the safety lamp for preventing explosions in mines		1825	GBP -	40.00
327	Sir Humphry Davy	The collected works		1839-40	GBP -	85.00
328	Francis Day	The fishes of Great Britain and Ireland		1880-84	USD -	Not Sold
329	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre	Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne	Paris	1817-1827	GBP -	18.00
330	Rene Descartes	Principia matheseos universalis seu introductio ad geometriae methodum	Amsterdam	1661-1656	GBP -	60.00
331	H. W. Dewhurst	The natural history of the order Cetacea		1834	GBP -	22.00
332	Rembertus Dodoens	Stirpium historiae pemptaedes sex	Antwerp	1616	GBP -	75.00
333	George Don	A general system of gardening and botany		1831-1837	GBP -	16.00
334	Edward Donovan	The natural history of British insects		1792-1813	GBP -	260.00
335	Edward Donovan	The natural history of British quadrupeds		1820	GBP -	65.00
337	A. Drapiez	Coup-d'oeil mineralogique et geologique sur la province du Hainaut	Brussels	1823	GBP -	24.00
338	R. J. H. Dutrochet	Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur la structure intime des animaux et des vegetaux	Paris	1824	GBP -	30.00
339		Euclid	Oxford	1703	GBP -	16.00
340	Leonhard Euler	Theoria motuum planetarum et cometarum	Berlin	1744	GBP -	100.00
341	Leonhard Euler	Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes sive solutio problematis isoperimetrici	Lausanne, & Geneva	1744	GBP -	85.00
342	Leonhard Euler	Theoria motuum lunae nova methodo petractata una cum tabulis astronomicis	St. Petersburg	1772	GBP -	85.00
343	William Falconer and Wm. Burney	A new universal dictionary of the marine		1815	GBP -	45.00
344	Michael Faraday	Chemical manipulation being instructions to students in chemistry		1827	GBP -	42.00
345	John Farey	A treatise on the steam engine		1827	GBP -	55.00
346	Robert Fludd	Mosaicall philosophy grounded upon the essential truth or eternal sapience		1659	GBP -	110.00
347	Thomas Forster	Researches about atmospheric phaenomena		1823	GBP -	10.00
348	Baron de Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	The analytical theory of heat	Cambridge	1878	GBP -	24.00
349	Joseph Fox	The natural history of the human teeth		1803	GBP -	95.00
350	Paul Frisi	A treatise on rivers and torrents with the method of regulating their course and channels		1818	GBP -	48.00
351	Jacob Gaffarel	Curiositez inouyes hoc est curiostates inauditae de figuris Persarum talismanicis horoscopo patriarcharum et characteribus coelestibus	Hamburg	1676	GBP -	35.00
352	John Gadbury	Ephemerides of the celestial motions and aspects		1680	GBP -	10.00
353	Galileo Galilei	Opere	Milan	1808-1811	GBP -	20.00
354	Galileo Galilei	Dialogues concerning two new sciences	New York	1914	GBP -	14.00
355	Conrad Gesner	A new booke of destillatyon of waters		1565	GBP -	250.00
356	Alexander Gordon	A treatise upon elemental locomotion and interior communication wherein are explained		1834	GBP -	65.00
357	George Graves	Hortus medicus or figures and descriptions of the most important plants used in medicine	Edinburgh	1834	GBP -	26.00
358	Thomas Green	The universal herbal	Liverpool	1820	GBP -	95.00
359	P. Gregorius a Sancto Vincentio	Opus geometricum quadraturae circuli et sectionum coni	Antwerp	1647	GBP -	60.00
360	Edward Griffith	General and particular descriptions of the vertebrated animals		1821	GBP -	45.00
361	Robert Harrington	A letter addressed to Dr. Priestley			GBP -	95.00
362	John Haslam	Sound mind or contributions to the natural" history and physiology of the human intellect		1819	GBP -	60.00
364	Thomas Hawkins	Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri		1834	GBP -	14.00
365	Sir Thomas L. Heath	The thirteen books of Euclid's elements translated from the text of Heiberg	Cambridge	1908	GBP -	14.00
366	Sir Thomas. L. Heath	Aristarchus of Samos	Oxford	1913	GBP -	7.00
367		Hermes Trismegistus	Bordeaux	1574	GBP -	50.00
368	Sir William Herschel	The scientific papers		1912	GBP -	45.00
369	William Smith Hesleden	A sketch of the properties and advantages of Sutton's patent gravitated sails for windmills		1807	GBP -	45.00
370	William Hillary	Observations on the changes of air and the concomitant epidemical diseases in the island of Barbados to which is added a treatise on		1759	GBP -	14.00
371		Hippocrates	Basle	1537	GBP -	120.00
372	Nathaniel Hodges	Loimologia or an historical account of the plague in London in 1665		1721	GBP -	45.00
373	Sir Everard Home	Lectures on comparative anatomy		1814-1828	GBP -	40.00
374	Sir William Jackson Hooker	Botanical miscellany		1830-1833	GBP -	95.00
375	James Hope	Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy		1834	GBP -	90.00
376	Thomas Horsfield	Zoological researches in Java and the neighbouring islands		1824	GBP -	260.00
377		Horticultural Society		1812-35	GBP -	100.00
378	Rev. W. Houghton	British fresh-water fishes			GBP -	65.00
379	Luke Howard	The climate of London deduced from meteorological observations		1833	GBP -	25.00
380	Alexander von Humboldt	A geognostical essay on the superposition of rocks in both hemispheres		1823	GBP -	28.00
381	Alexander Humboldt	Asie centrale	Paris	1843	GBP -	55.00
382	John Hunt	Historical surgery or the progress of the science of medicine	Loughborough	1801	GBP -	48.00
383	Charles Hutton	A philosophical and mathematical dictionary		1815	GBP -	35.00
384	Charles Hutton	Tracts on mathematical and philosophical subjects	Edinburgh	1812	GBP -	20.00
385	Thomas Henry Huxley	The scientific memoirs		1898-1902	GBP -	60.00
386	FRS William Jacob	A view of the agriculture		1820	GBP -	35.00
387	Sir William Jardine	The naturalist's library	Edinburgh		GBP -	190.00
388	William Gorsart Johnstone and Alexander Croall	The nature-printed British sea-weeds		1859-60	GBP -	42.00
389	D. Jourdanet	Influence de la pression de l'air sur la vie de l'homme	Paris	1875	GBP -	10.00
390	medicus Hadrianus Junius	Nomenclator omnium rerum propria nomina	Ober-Ursel	1602	GBP -	22.00
391	Engelbert Kaempfer	Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-phycico-medicarum fasciculi V . . . descriptiones rerum Persicarum & ulterioris Asiae		1712	GBP -	100.00
392	Johannes Keill	Introductiones ad veram physicam et veram astronomiam	Leiden	1725	GBP -	30.00
393	William Kemp	A briefe treatise of the nature		1665	GBP -	60.00
394	W. Saville Kent	A manual of infusoria		1880-82	GBP -	65.00
395	Johannes Kepler	Astronomia nova aetiologetos seu physica coelestis	Heidelberg	1609	GBP -	1,400.00
396	S. J. Athanasius Kircher	Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum	Rome	1654	GBP -	140.00
397	Comte de B. G. E. Delaville Lacepede	Oeuvres	Paris	1826-33	GBP -	22.00
398	R. T. H. Laennec	Traite de l'auscultation mediate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur	Paris	1826	GBP -	60.00
399	R. T. H. Laennec	A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation		1834	GBP -	26.00
400	Comte Joseph Louis Lagrange	Traite de la resolution des equations numeriques de tous les degres	Paris	1826	GBP -	45.00
401	Pierre Simon Marquis de La Place	Traite de Mecanique celeste	Paris	1798	GBP -	170.00
402	John Caspar Lavater	Essays on physiognomy designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind		1789-98	GBP -	65.00
403	John Lawrence	The history and delineation of the horse . . . with a particular investigation of the character of the race-horse and the business of the turf		1809	GBP -	18.00
404	A. Leotaud	Oiseaux de l'ile de la Trinidad (Antilles)	Port d'Espagne	1866	GBP -	35.00
405	A. M. Legendre	Essai sur la theorie des nombres	Paris	1816	GBP -	20.00
406	G. G. Leibnitz and Johannes Bernoulli	Commercium philosophicum et mathematicum ab anno 1694 ad annum 1716	Lausanne & Geneva	1745	GBP -	120.00
407	Justus von Liebig	Organic chemistry in its application to agriculture and physiology		1840	GBP -	30.00
408	Otto Lilienthal	Birdflight as the basis of aviation		1911	GBP -	18.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.