Swann Galleries: Medicine Sale, 1478,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 20, 1988 - October 20, 1988

Page Size: 297 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
002	AIKIN, C. R.	A Concise View of All the Most Important Facts which have hitherto appeared concerning the Cow-Pox.	London	1801	USD 60.00 - 90.00	77.00
003	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachi . . . accedit tabularum editio nova.	Leiden	1744	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,320.00
004	ALEXANDER of Tralles	De singularum corporis partium . . . vitiis, aegritudinibus, & iniuriis, libri ad unguem facti V, per Albanum Torinum Vitodurensem recens Latinitate donati.	Basel	(1533)	USD 300.00 - 400.00	303.00
005	(AMERICAN IMPRINTS)	Group of over 75 volumes.	United States	late 18th--mid 19th century	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,045.00
006	ANDRAL, GABRIEL	The Clinique Medicale; or Reports of Medical Cases.	London	1836	USD 100.00 - 150.00	154.00
007	(ANESTHESIA)	Group of 3 pamphlets relating to W. T. G. Morton. U.S. 37th Congress, 1st Session. House. [Report of] The Select Committee to which was referred the memorial of Dr. . . . Morton, asking remuneration from Congress for the discovery of the anesthetic . . .	[Washington]	1852; 1863	USD 100.00 - 200.00	385.00
008	(ANESTHESIA)	Group of 3 volumes. U.S. 37th Congress, 1st Session. House. [Report of] The Select Committee to which was referred the memorial of Dr. . . . asking remuneration from Congress for the discovery of the anaesthetic . . . properties of sulphuric ether. 2 plat	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	440.00
009	ARETAEUS	Ta Sozomena . . . The Extant Works. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.	London	1856	USD 80.00 - 120.00	165.00
010	ARGENTERIUS, JOANNES	De urinis liber.	Leipzig	1682	USD 80.00 - 120.00	121.00
011	ARMSTRONG, JOHN	The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem . . . Fourth Edition.	Boston	1757	USD 80.00 - 120.00	193.00
013	AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD	Nouvelle Methode pour reconnaitre les Maladies Internes de la Poitrines par la Percussion de Cette Cavite. Latin text with French translation and commentary by J. M. Corvisart.	Paris	1808	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	880.00
014	AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD	Inventum Novum.	Vienna	1922	USD 80.00 - 120.00	121.00
015	(AUSCULTATION, etc.)	Group of 3 volumes.	Vp	vd	USD 100.00 - 200.00	193.00
016	AVERILL, CHARLES	A Short Treatise on Operative Surgery, describing the Principal Operations as they are practised in England and France.	Philadelphia	1823	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
017	BANAU, JEAN-BAPTISTE	Histoire Naturelle de la Peau, et de ses Rapports avec la Sante et la Beaute du Corps.	Paris	An X---1802	USD 100.00 - 200.00	248.00
018	BARTLETT, ELISHA	The History, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Typhoid and Typhus Fever; with an Essay on the Diagnosis of Bilious Remittent and of Yellow Fever.	Philadelphia	1842	USD 80.00 - 120.00	88.00
019	BARTLETT, ELISHA	An Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science.	Philadelphia	1844	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
020	BATEMAN, THOMAS	A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases.	Philadelphia	1824	USD 80.00 - 120.00	77.00
021	BAZIN, E.	Lecons Theoriques et Cliniques sur la Syphilis et les Syphilides . . . Deuxieme Edition, considerablement augmentee.	Paris	1866	USD 60.00 - 90.00	44.00
022	BEAUMONT, SAMUEL	On Dyspepsia. An Address delivered before the Clinton County Medical Society, at their Annual Meeting, June 28, 1831.	Plattsburgh	1831	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
023	BEAUMONT, WILLIAM	Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.	Plattsburgh	1833	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	935.00
024	(BEAUMONT, WILLIAM)	Second Edition, corrected by Samuel Beaumont, M.D.	Burlington	1847	USD 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
025	(BEAUTY)	Group of 4 volumes. The Book of Health & Beauty; or, The Toilette of Rank and Fashion . . . Second Edition, Corrected. 1837 * Cooley. The Toilet in Ancient and Modern Times; with a Review of the Different Theories of Beauty, and Copious Allied Information	Vp	vd	USD 100.00 - 200.00	66.00
026	BELL, BENJAMIN	A Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers.	Boston	1797	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
027	BELL, BENJAMIN	A System of Surgery . . . Second American, from the Seventh Edinburgh Edition.	Troy	1804	USD 80.00 - 120.00	523.00
028	BELL, SIR CHARLES	A System of Operative Surgery, founded on the Basis of Anatomy.	Hartford	1812	USD 80.00 - 120.00	193.00
029	BELL, SIR CHARLES	A Series of Engravings explaining the Course of the Nerves.	Philadelphia	1818	USD 150.00 - 250.00	165.00
030	BELL, SIR CHARLES	Illustrations of the Great Operations in Surgery, Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism, and Lithotomy.	London	1821	USD 500.00 - 750.00	2,200.00
031	BELL, JOHN	The Anatomy of the Human Body.	New York	1809	USD 150.00 - 250.00	193.00
032	BICHAT, XAVIER	Physiological Researches upon Life and Death.	Philadelphia	1809	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
033	BICHAT, XAVIER	A Treatise on Membranes in General, and on Different Membranes in Particular.	Boston	1813	USD 100.00 - 150.00	248.00
034	BICHAT, XAVIER	General Anatomy, applied to Physiology and Medicine.	Boston	1822--1823	USD 150.00 - 250.00	440.00
035	BIDLOO, GOVERT	Anatomia humani corporis.	Amsterdam	1685	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	6,600.00
036	BIGELOW, JACOB	American Medical Botany.	Boston	1817--1820	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	2,420.00
037	(BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES)	Group of over 45 catalogues of medical and scientific books issued by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Dawson (including no. 91), Howell, Offenbacher, Interlibrum, and others.	Vp	1950s--1980s	USD 60.00 - 90.00	165.00
038	BORDEU, THEOPHILE DE	Recherches sur le Pouls, par rapport aux Crises.	Paris	1779--1786	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
040	BOYER, ALEXIS, Baron	Traite des Maladies Chirurgicales et des Operations qui leur conviennent . . . Quatrieme Edition.	Paris	1831	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
041	BRACKEN, HENRY	The Midwife's Companion; or, A Treatise of Midwifery.	London	1737	USD 100.00 - 150.00	330.00
042	BREASTED, JAMES HENRY, translator and editor	The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus. Published in Facsimile and Hieroglyphic Transliteration with Translation and Commentary.	Chicago	1930	USD 250.00 - 350.00	385.00
043	BREWSTER, SIR DAVID	A Treatise on Optics . . . with an Appendix, containing an Elementary View of the Application of Analysis to Reflexion and Refraction.	Philadelphia	1833	USD 50.00 - 75.00	88.00
044	BROUSSAIS, F. J. V.	Principles of Physiological Medicine.	Philadelphia	1832	USD 60.00 - 90.00	44.00
045	[BROWN, JOHN]	The Elements of Medicine; or, A Translation of the Elementa Medicinae Brunonis.	Philadelphia	1791	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
046	BROWNE, SIR THOMAS	Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents And commonly Presumed Truths . . . Fourth Edition . . . whereunto are now added two Discourses The one of Urn-Burial . . . The other of the Garden of Cyrus.	London	1658	USD 100.00 - 200.00	143.00
047	BRUEHL, GUSTAV	Das menschliche Gehoerorgan in 8 topographischen Bildern mit erlaeuterndem Texte.	Munich	[1897]	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
048	BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS	The Book of Cirurgia.	Milan	1923	USD 80.00 - 120.00	66.00
049	BUCHAN, WILLIAM	Advice to Mothers, on the Subject of their Own Health; and on the Means of promoting the Health, Strength, and Beauty of their Offspring.	Philadelphia	1804	USD 80.00 - 120.00	193.00
050	[BURTON, ROBERT]	The Anatomy of Melancholy.	London	1676	USD 100.00 - 150.00	275.00
051	BYRNE, BERNARD M.	An Essay to prove the Contagious Character of Malignant Cholera; with Brief Instructions for its Prevention and Cure.	Baltimore	1833	USD 80.00 - 120.00	143.00
052	CABANES, AUGUSTE	Group of 14 volumes. Les Morts Mysterieuses de l'Histoire. 2 volumes. 1923 * Le Cabinet Secret de l'Histoire . . . Nouvelle Edition. 4 volumes. Volume 1 spine cracked. Nd * Moeurs Intimes du Passe . . . Sixieme Edition. 8 volumes. Volume 2 front wrapper l	Paris	1920s	USD 60.00 - 90.00	44.00
053	CABANIS, P. J. G.	Coup d'Oeil sur les Revolutions et sur la Reforme de la Medecine.	Paris	An XII---1804	USD 100.00 - 150.00	99.00
054	[CABANIS, P. J. G.]	Del Grado de Certeza en Medecina.	Barcelona	1832	USD 60.00 - 90.00	44.00
055	CADOGAN, WILLIAM	A Dissertation on the Gout . . . Eighth Edition.	London	1771	USD 80.00 - 120.00	165.00
056	CAREY, MATHEW	A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia; with a Statement of the Proceedings that took place on the Subject in Different Parts of the United States.	Philadelphia	November 14, 1793	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
057	CATLIN, GEORGE	Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life . . . Seventh Edition.	London	1878	USD 50.00 - 75.00	77.00
058	CAZEAUX, PIERRE	Tratado Teorico y Practico del Arte Obstetrica.	Madrid	1852	USD 80.00 - 120.00	121.00
059	CHAPMAN, EDMUND	An Essay on the Improvement of Midwifery; chiefly with Regard to the Operation. To which are added Fifty Cases, selected from upwards of Twenty-Five Years Practice.	London	1733	USD 350.00 - 500.00	550.00
060	CHARAKA CLUB	Proceedings.	New York	1901--1947	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	605.00
061	CHESELDEN, WILLIAM	The Anatomy of the Human Body . . . VIIth Edition.	London	1750	USD 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
062	CHESELDEN, WILLIAM	Anatomical Tables.	Boston	1796	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
064	CHISOLM, COLIN	An Essay on the Malignant Pestilential Fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the Coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 . . . to which is annexed, a Description of the American Yellow Fever, which prevailed at Charleston	Philadelphia	1799	USD 100.00 - 150.00	193.00
065	(CHOLERA)	Group of 3 volumes. FIRST EDITIONS.	Vp	vd	USD 100.00 - 200.00	132.00
066	CHOULANT, LUDWIG	Bibliotheca Medico-Historica; sive, Catalogus librorum historicorum de re medica et scientia naturali systematicus. With the 2 volumes of Additamenta by Julius Rosenbaum.	Halle	1842--1847	USD 100.00 - 200.00	220.00
067	COOK, JOHN ESTEN	Essays on the Autumnal and Winter Epidemics. 140 pages * Remarks on Some of the Diseases incident to a State of Pregnancy. Pages [189]-204 * An Introductory Lecture, delivered to the Medical Class of Transylvania University, in 1835.	Lexington	1829--1833--1835	USD 80.00 - 120.00	220.00
068	COOPER, SIR ASTLEY	A Treatise on Dislocations and on Fractures of the Joints . . . Fourth Edition.	London	1824	USD 150.00 - 250.00	303.00
069	CORVISART DES MAREST, JEAN-NICOLAS, Baron	An Essay on the Organic Lesions of the Heart and Great Vessels.	Boston	1812	USD 80.00 - 120.00	275.00
070	COSTER, JACQUES	Manual of Surgical Operations; containing the New Methods of Operating devised by Lisfranc . . . Translation and Notes by John D. Godman, M.D.	Philadelphia	1825	USD 80.00 - 120.00	99.00
072	CROWTHER, BRYAN	Practical Remarks on Insanity; to which is added, A Commentary on the Dissection of the Brains of Maniacs; with Some Account of Diseases incident to the Insane.	London	1811	USD 250.00 - 350.00	523.00
073	[CRUZ, MARTIN DE LA]	The Badianus Manuscript (Codex Barberini, Latin 241), Vatican Library: An Aztec Herbal of 1552. Introduction, Translation, and Annotations by Emily Walcott Emmart. With a Foreword by Henry E. Sigerist.	Baltimore	1940	USD 150.00 - 250.00	88.00
074	CULLEN, WILLIAM	A Treatise of the Materia Medica.	Dublin	1789	USD 80.00 - 120.00	66.00
075	CULPEPPER, NICHOLAS	The English Physician Enlarged . . . being, An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation.	London	1799	USD 80.00 - 120.00	121.00
076	CURRIE, JAMES	Medical Reports, on the Effects of Water, Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fever and Febrile Diseases.	Liverpool	1797	USD 150.00 - 200.00	132.00
077	CURRIE, WILLIAM	Group of 4 volumes.	Philadelphia	vd	USD 300.00 - 400.00	303.00
078	CURTIS, JOHN HARRISON	A Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye.	London	1833	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
079	DALTON, JOHN	Topographical Anatomy of the Brain.	Philadelphia	1885	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,650.00
080	DANIELL, W. C.	Observations upon the Autumnal Fevers of Savannah.	Savannah	1826	USD 150.00 - 250.00	303.00
081	DAUMIER, HONORE	Tu vas porter cette note aux journaux.	[Paris]	[5 November 1837]	USD 150.00 - 250.00	121.00
082	DAVIDGE, JOHN BEALE	Physical Sketches, or Outlines of Correctives, applied to Certain Modern Errours in Physick.	Baltimore	1814--1816	USD 80.00 - 120.00	99.00
083	DELAFOND, O.; and BOURGUIGNON, H.	Traite Pratique d'Entomologie et de Pathologie de la Psore ou Gale de l'Homme et des Animaux Domestiques [extracted from Academie des Sciences, Paris, Memoires, Volume 16].	[Paris]	[1862]	USD 80.00 - 120.00	77.00
084	DELEUZE, J. P. F.	Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism . . . Translated from the Paris Edition by Thomas C. Hartshorn. Second Edition.	Providence	1838	USD 50.00 - 75.00	121.00
085	DESAULT, PIERRE-JOSEPH	Journal de Chirurgie.	Paris	1791--1792	USD 150.00 - 250.00	220.00
086	DESAULT, PIERRE-JOSEPH	A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations, and other Affections of the Bones.	Philadelphia	1805	USD 100.00 - 150.00	275.00
087		DEVOTIONAL SOMNIUM; or, A Collection of Prayers and Exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker, in the City of New York, in the Winter of 1815, during her Abstracted and Unconscious State. To which Pious and Unprecedented Exercises are prefixed, an Accoun	New York	1815	USD 80.00 - 120.00	248.00
088	DEWEES, WILLIAM	Group of 6 volumes.	Philadelphia	vd	USD 200.00 - 300.00	303.00
090	DICTIONNAIRE DE CHIRURGIE	/book_records/220251	Paris	An VII [1799]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	358.00
091		DISPENSATORIUM PHARMACEUTICUM AUSTRIACO-VIENNENSE.	Vienna	1729	USD 250.00 - 350.00	330.00
092	DORSEY, JOHN SYNG	Elements of Surgery: for the Use of Students.	Philadelphia	1813	USD 100.00 - 200.00	825.00
093	DOVER, THOMAS	The Ancient Physician's Legacy to his Country . . . Sixth Edition.	London	1742	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
094	DRAKE, DANIEL	Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami Country.	Cincinnati	1815	USD 100.00 - 150.00	55.00
095	DRAKE, DANIEL	Practical Essays on Medical Education, and the Medical Profession in the United States.	Cincinnati	1832	USD 200.00 - 300.00	1,045.00
096	DRAKE, DANIEL	A Practical Treatise on the History, Prevention, and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera, designed both for the Profession and the People.	Cincinnati	1832	USD 250.00 - 350.00	275.00
097	(DRAKE, DANIEL)	Western Literary Institute, and College of Professional Teachers. Transactions of the Fourth Annual Meeting . . . held in Cincinnati, October, 1834.	Cincinnati	1835	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
099	DRAKE, DANIEL	A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux Varieties of its Population.	Cincinnati	1850--1854	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,100.00
100	DRAKE, DANIEL	Discourses delivered by Appointment, before the Cincinnati Medical Library Association, January 9th and 10th, 1852.	Cincinnati	1852	USD 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
101	DRAKE, DANIEL	Pioneer Life in Kentucky.	Cincinnati	1870	USD 80.00 - 120.00	154.00
102	DUCACHET, HENRY WILLIAM	An Inaugural Essay on the Action of Poisons.	New York	1817	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
103	DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, G. B. A.	Physiology of Motion Demonstrated by Means of Electrical Stimulation and Clinical Observation and Applied to the Study of Paralysis and Deformities.	Philadelphia	1949	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
104	DUPUYTREN, GUILLAUME	Clinical Lectures on Surgery, delivered at Hotel Dieu, in 1832.	Philadelphia	1832	USD 100.00 - 150.00	605.00
105	EAKINS, THOMAS	The Differential Action of Certain Muscles passing more than One Joint.	[Philadelphia]	[1894]	USD 50.00 - 75.00	303.00
107	FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, HIERONYMUS	Opera Chirurgica.	Padua	1666	USD 250.00 - 350.00	550.00
108	FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, HIERONYMUS	L'Opere Cirurgiche.	Padua	1671	USD 250.00 - 350.00	468.00

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