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
510 Alexander Tilloch The mechanic's oracle and artisan's laboratory and workshop

1825

 GBP - 35.00
511 I. Todhunter A history of the mathematical theory of probability from the time of Pascal to that of Laplace Cambridge & London

1865

 GBP - 8.00
512 Thomas Tredgold The steam engine comprising an account of its invention and progressive improvement

1827

 GBP - 65.00
513 Dawson Turner Muscologiae Hibernicae spicilegium Yarmouth & London

1804

 USD - Not Sold
514 John Tyndall Researches on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action including the question of diamagnetic polarity

1870

 USD - Not Sold
515 John Tyndall Contributions to molecular physics in the domain of radiant heat

1872

 USD - Not Sold
516 John Tyndall Essays on the floating matter in the air

1881

 USD - Not Sold
517 John Tyndall Fragments of science

1871

 USD - Not Sold
518 Jacques Christophe Valmoht-Bomare Dictionnaire raisonne universel d'histoire naturelle Lyons

1791

 GBP - 6.00
519 Jacques Christophe Valmont-Bomare Dictionnaire raisonne universel d'histoire naturelle contenant l'histoire des animaux Lyons

1791

 GBP - 6.00
520 Andreas Vesalius De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome Paris

1560

 GBP - 300.00
521 Johann Gottschalk Waller Systema mineralogicum quo corpora mineralia . . . describuntur Stockholm

1772-75

 GBP - 6.00
522 Hardick Warren Magick & astrology vindicated from those false aspersions and calumnies which the ignorance of some hath cast upon them (A-E 4)

1651

 GBP - 22.00
523 Charles Richard Weld A history of the Royal Society with memoirs of the Presidents

1848

 USD - Not Sold
524 William Charles Wells An essay on dew and several appearances connected with it

1815

 GBP - 32.00
525 Abraham Gottlieb Werner Nouvelle theorie de la formation des filons Paris

1802

 GBP - 18.00
526 Charles White An account of the regular gradation in man and in different animals and vegetables

1799

 GBP - 42.00
527 James White A new century of inventions being designs and descriptions of one hundred machines relating to arts Manchester

1822

 GBP - 65.00
528 Alexander Wilson and Charles L. Bonaparte London & Edinburgh

1832

 GBP - 10.00
529 Vincent Wing An ephemerides of the coelestiall motions for VII years . . . 1652 . . . 1658

1652

 GBP - 8.00
530 Vincent Wing An ephemeris of the colestial motions for the year 1659 (-71)

1657

 GBP - 4.00
531 William Withering The miscellaneous tracts

1822

 GBP - 130.00
532 William Wood General conchology or a description of shells . . . according to the Linnaean system

1815

 GBP - 30.00
533 John Woodward An essay toward a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies especially minerals as also of sea

1695

 GBP - 80.00
534 Worcester The century of inventions from the original MS

1825

 GBP - 7.00
535 Thomas Young Elementary illustrations of the celestial mechanic of Laplace

1821

 GBP - 16.00
536 Samuel Copland Agriculture

1866

 GBP - 75.00
537 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre Astronomy Paris

1814

 GBP - 10.00
538 William Forsyth Botany

1802

 GBP - 10.00
539 George Sinclair Botany

1824

 GBP - 30.00
540 Sir James Edward Smith and Sir W. J. Hooker Botany

1824-36

 GBP - 38.00
542 Benjamin Haydon Jackson Botany

1881

 GBP - 35.00
543 Chemistry Paris

1829-33

 GBP - 55.00
544 Lewis Weston Dillwyn Conchology

1817

 GBP - 18.00
545 William Kirby and Wm. Spence Entomology

1815-26

 GBP - 14.00
546 Samuel Morewood Gastronomy

1838

 GBP - 22.00
547 Baron G. L. C. Cuvier Geology Edinburgh

1815

 GBP - 52.00
548 Hugh Miller Geology Edinburgh

1858

 GBP - 22.00
549 Sir James Lyell Geology

1865

 GBP - 70.00
550 J. F. L. Williams History of science

1820

 GBP - 20.00
551 Horse (The)

1825

 GBP - 45.00
552 Mathematics

1817

 GBP - 20.00
553 John Abernethy Medical

1825

 GBP - 25.00
554 Sir Charles Bell Medical

1814

 GBP - 24.00
555 Theophile de Bordeu Medical Paris

1818

 GBP - 16.00
556 B. B. Cooper Medical

1833

 GBP - 28.00
557 William Cullen Medical

1827

 GBP - 65.00
558 John Ferriar Medical

1810

 GBP - 30.00
559 James Gregory Medical Edinburgh

1823

 GBP - 10.00
560 Shirley Palmer Medical

[1829]

 GBP - 48.00
561 Forbes Winslow Medical

1860

 GBP - 95.00
562 John Roberton Medical Edinburgh

1806

 GBP - 24.00
563 Medical

1865

 GBP - 60.00
564 Fred. Mohs Mineralogy Edinburgh

1825

 GBP - 32.00
565 H. McMurtrie Natural history

1834

 GBP - 35.00
566 St. George Mivart Natural History

1881

 GBP - 22.00
567 Elisee Reclus Natural History

1886

 GBP - 4.00
568 T. C. Eyton Ornithology

1836

 GBP - 30.00
569 Periodicals

1816-21

 GBP - 12.00
570 Pre-history and anthropology

1865

 GBP - 65.00
571 P. L. M. de Maupertuis Science Lyons

1768

 GBP - 35.00
572 William Hooper Science

1774

 GBP - 22.00
573 Olinthus Gregory Science

1815

 GBP - 18.00
574 Science and technology

1871

 GBP - 95.00
575 William Matthews Technology London

1835

 GBP - 48.00
576 Chevalier William Hamilton Volcanoes Paris

1781

 GBP - 24.00
577 J. L. W. Thudichum and A. Dupre Wine

1872

 GBP - 20.00
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.