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
222 PARE, AMBROISE Les Oeuvres. Paris

1575

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 2,860.00
223 PARE, AMBROISE Oeuvres Completes. Paris

1841

USD 400.00 - 600.00 605.00
224 PARIS, J. A. A Treatise on Diet; with a View to establish, on Practical Ground, a System of Rules for the Prevention and Cure of the Diseases incident to a Disordered State of the Digestive Functions. New York

1828

USD 60.00 - 90.00 55.00
225 PARR, BARTHOLOMEW The London Medical Dictionary. Philadelphia

1820

USD 80.00 - 120.00 121.00
226 PARSONS, USHER Directions for making Anatomical Preparations, formed on the Basis of Pole, Marjolin and Breschet, and including the New Method of Mr. Swan. Philadelphia

1831

USD 80.00 - 120.00 165.00
228 PASTEUR, LOUIS Etudes sur la Biere . . . avec une Theorie Nouvelle de la Fermentation. Paris

1876 [circa 1920]

USD 60.00 - 90.00 44.00
229 (PATENT REMEDIES) Two advertising broadsides. Whittemore's Concentrated Veetable [sic] Syrup. A Most Sure and Effectual Remedy for the Diarrhea, Bowel Complaint, and Cholera Morbus * Dr. Brunet's Universal Remedy and Pulmonary Syrup. United States

circa 1842, circa 1850

USD 100.00 - 200.00 275.00
230 PEARSON, JOHN Observations on the Effects of Various Articles of the Materia Medica, in the Cure of Lues Venerea; illustrated with Cases. London

1800

USD 100.00 - 150.00 303.00
231 PECHEY, JOHN Promptuarium praxeos medicae; seu, Methodus medendi, praescriptis celeberrimorum medicorum Londinensium concinnata. Et in ordinem alphabeticum digesta. London

1693

USD 300.00 - 400.00 358.00
232 PECQUET, JEAN Experimenta nova anatomica . . . eiusdem dissertatio anatomica de circulatione sanguinis et chyli mortu. Paris

1651

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,045.00
233 PELLETAN, PHILIPPE JEAN Clinique Chirurgicale. Paris

1810

USD 100.00 - 150.00 121.00
234 PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL, Philadelphia State of the Accounts . . . adjusted by the Managers; being, A Summary of the Receipts and Payments for the Year ending the 25th Day of the 4th Month, 1800, and laid before the Contributors at their Annual Meeting. [Philadelphia]

[1800]

USD 100.00 - 150.00 358.00
235 PERRET, JEAN-JACQUES L'Art du Coutelier Expert en Instruments de Chirurgie. [Paris]

1772

USD 300.00 - 400.00 550.00
236 (PHARMACEUTICAL PRICE LISTS) Group of 4 chemists' or druggists' broadsides, priced or annotated in manuscript. United States

1820s--1830s

USD 100.00 - 200.00 165.00
237 PHARMACOPOEIA LONDINENSIS COLLEGARUM Engraved title. London

1650

USD 250.00 - 350.00 413.00
238 PHARMACOPOEIA EDINBURGENSIS; or, The Dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh . . . Fifth Edition with Additions. London

1746

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
239 THE PHARMACOPOEIA of the United States of America. Boston

1820

USD 150.00 - 250.00 303.00
240 [PICHON, T.-J.] La Physique de "Histoire; ou, Considerations Generales sur les Principes Elementaires du Temperament et du Caractere Naturel des Peuples. The Hague and Paris

1765

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
241 POTT, PERCIVALL Farther Remarks on the Useless State of the Lower Limbs, in Consequence of a Curvature of the Spine; London

1782

USD 100.00 - 150.00 1,210.00
242 POTT, PERCIVALL The Chirurgical Works . . . New Edition. London

1779

USD 80.00 - 120.00 303.00
243 POWERS, GRANT Essay upon the Influence of the Imagination on the Nervous System, contributing to a False Hope in Religion. Andover

1828

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
244 PRINGLE, SIR JOHN Observations on the Diseases of the Army . . . with Notes, by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Philadelphia

1812

USD 60.00 - 90.00 132.00
245 PUCCINOTTI, FRANCESCO Storia della Medicina. Livorno and Prato

1855--1866

USD 100.00 - 150.00 275.00
246 QUINCY, JOHN Lexicon Physico-Medicum; or, A New Physical Dictionary. London

1719

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
247 RACIBORSKI, ADAM Nouveau Manuel Complet d'Auscultation et de Percussion; ou, Application de l'Acoustique au Diagnostic des Maladies. Paris

1835

USD 80.00 - 120.00 193.00
248 RAMON Y CAJAL, SANTIAGO Histologie du Systeme Nerveux de l'Homme & des Vertebres . . . traduite de l'Espagnol par le Dr. L. Azoulay. Paris

1909

USD 250.00 - 350.00 660.00
249 RAYER, PIERRE FRANCOIS OLIVE Traite Theorique et Pratique des Maladies de la Peau. Paris

1826

USD 100.00 - 200.00 330.00
250 REDI, FRANCESCO Esperienze intorno alla Generazione degl'Insetti . . . Quinta Impressione. Florence

1688

USD 150.00 - 250.00 468.00
251 REES, JOHN T. Remarks on the Medical Theories of Brown, Cullen, Darwin, and Rush. Philadelphia

1805

USD 80.00 - 120.00 66.00
252 (REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNI) L'Ecole de Salerne; ou, L'Art de Conserver la Sante, en Vers Latins & Francois, avec des Remarques; recueillie, augmentee, & publiee par M. Levacher de la Feutrie. Paris

1782

USD 60.00 - 90.00 77.00
253 REMAK, ROBERT Ueber ein selbstaendiges Darmnervensystem. Berlin

1847

USD 60.00 - 90.00 143.00
254 REYHER, GIORGIO Dieta Patalogica; o sia, Metodo di Vivere per gli Ammalati . . . tradotto dal Tedesco. Florence

1795

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
255 RHAZES A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles . . . translated from the Original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill, M.D. London

1848

USD 150.00 - 250.00 99.00
256 RIVIERE, LAZARE Opera medica universa. Lyon

1679

USD 150.00 - 200.00 99.00
257 ROENTGEN, WILHELM KONRAD Eine neue Art von Strahlen. Wuerzburg

1896

USD 350.00 - 500.00 275.00
260 RUSH, BENJAMIN Observations on the Duties of a Physician, and the Methods of Improving Medicine. Philadelphia

1789

USD 100.00 - 150.00 468.00
261 RUSH, BENJAMIN Six Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures, upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, delivered in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia

1801

USD 100.00 - 150.00 275.00
262 RUSH, BENJAMIN Medical Inquiries and Observations . . . Second Edition, revised and enlarged by the Author. Philadelphia

1805

USD 80.00 - 120.00 303.00
263 RUSH, BENJAMIN Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind. Philadelphia

1812

USD 150.00 - 250.00 468.00
264 (RUSH, BENJAMIN.) Ramsay, David An Eulogium upon Benjamin Rush, M.D. Philadelphia

1813

USD 80.00 - 120.00 165.00
265 SAISSY, J.-A. An Essay on the Diseases of the Internal Ear . . . translated from the French, by Nathan R. Smith, M.D. . . . with a Supplement on Diseases of the External Ear, by the Translator. Baltimore

1829

USD 100.00 - 150.00 358.00
266 SANTORIO, SANTORIO De medicina statica aphorismi. Commentaria notasque addidit A. C. Lorry. Paris

1770

USD 100.00 - 150.00 88.00
267 SAUNDERS, JOHN CUNNINGHAM The Anatomy of the Human Ear, illustrated by a Series of Engravings . . . with a Treatise on the Diseases of that Organ, the Causes of Deafness, and their Proper Treatment. London

1806

USD 150.00 - 250.00 1,100.00
268 SAUNDERS, WILLIAM A Treatise on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of the Liver. Boston

1797

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
269 SCARPA, ANTONIO Anatomisch-chirurgische Abhandlungen ueber die Brueche. Aus dem Italienischen uebersetzt und mit Zusaetzen versehen von Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler. Halle

1813

USD 150.00 - 250.00 165.00
270 SCHROEDER VAN DER KOLK, J. L. C. On the Minute Structure and Functions of the Spinal Cord and Medulla Oblongata. And on the Proximate Cause and Rational Treatment of Epilepsy. London

1859

USD 100.00 - 150.00 66.00
271 SCOFIELD, SAMUEL A Practical Treatise on Vaccina or Cowpock. New York

1810

USD 80.00 - 120.00 193.00
272 SEMMELWEIS, IGNAC Gesammelte Werke. Jena

1905

USD 100.00 - 150.00 248.00
273 SENNERT, DANIEL Operum tomus primus [-sextus] . . . editio novissima. Lyons

1676

USD 200.00 - 300.00 121.00
274 SEVERINI, MARCO AURELIO Vipera pythia; id est, De viperae natura, veneno, medicina, demonstrationes, & experimenta nova. Padua

1650

USD 250.00 - 350.00 440.00
275 SHARP, SAMUEL A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, with a Description of the Instruments used in performing them . . . Second Edition. London

1739

USD 150.00 - 250.00 275.00
276 SHAW, JOHN A Manual for the Student of Anatomy. Troy

1825

USD 60.00 - 90.00 55.00
277 SHERRILL, HUNTING An Essay on Epidemics as they appeared in Dutchess County, from 1809 to 1825; also, a Paper on Diseases of the Jaw-Bones; with an Appendix, containing an Account of the Epidemic Cholera, as it appeared in Poughkeepsie in 1832. New York

1832

USD 80.00 - 120.00 193.00
278 (SIGNED BOOKS) Group of 9 volumes. Vp

vd

USD 80.00 - 120.00 193.00
279 SIMS, J. MARION Silver Sutures in Surgery. New York

1858

USD 100.00 - 150.00 660.00
280 SMELLIE, WILLIAM A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery . . . Second Edition, Corrected. London

1752

USD 150.00 - 200.00 220.00
281 SMELLIE, WILLIAM A Set of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgment of the Practice of Midwifery . . . Second Edition, Corrected. London, Vienna

1761 [1924]

USD 80.00 - 120.00 132.00
282 (SMELLIE, WILLIAM) Another edition. Worcester

1793

USD 150.00 - 250.00 358.00
283 SMITH, NATHAN A Practical Essay on Typhus Fever. New York

1824

USD 150.00 - 250.00 193.00
284 SMITH, SOUTHWOOD A Treatise on Fever. Philadelphia

1830

USD 60.00 - 90.00 44.00
285 SMYTH, JAMES CARMICHAEL The Effect of the Nitrous Vapour, in preventing and destroying Contagion; ascertained from a Variety of Trials, made chiefly by Surgeons of His Majesty's Navy, in Prisons, Hospitals, and on Board of Ships. Philadelphia

1799

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
286 SOEMMERRING, SAMUEL THOMAS Icones embryonum humanorum. Frankfurt am Main

1799

USD 250.00 - 350.00 303.00
287 SPALLANZANI, LAZZARO Opuscoli di Fisica Animale, e Vegetabile. Modena

1776

USD 250.00 - 350.00 605.00
288 SPRENGEL, KURT, editor Beitraege zur Geschichte der Medicin. Halle

1794--1796

USD 80.00 - 120.00 275.00
289 STAEL, MADAME DE Reflections on Suicide. Translated from the French . . . by an American Lady. Philadelphia

1816

USD 60.00 - 90.00 66.00
290 STERNBERG, GEORGE M. Malaria and Malarial Diseases. New York

1884

USD 60.00 - 90.00 44.00
291 STIRLING, WILLIAM Some Apostles of Physiology. London

1902

USD 80.00 - 120.00 110.00
292 SUDHOFF, KARL Graphische und typographische Erstlinge der Syphilisliteratur aus den Jahren 1495 und 1496. Munich

1912

USD 80.00 - 120.00 275.00
293 SUDHOFF, KARL Erstlinge der paediatrischen Literatur. Munich

1925

USD 80.00 - 120.00 121.00
294 (SURGERY) Group of 3 volumes. Vp

vd

USD 100.00 - 200.00 193.00
296 (SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS) Group of 3 volumes. Vp

vd

USD 100.00 - 200.00 275.00
297 (SYPHILIS) Group of 3 French translations of early classics on syphilis. Paris

vd

USD 80.00 - 120.00 193.00
298 TERRIER, F.; and PERAIRE, M. L'Operation du Trepan. Paris

1895

USD 50.00 - 75.00 88.00
299 THACHER, JAMES Observations on Hydrophobia, produced by the Bite of a Mad Dog, or Other Rabid Animal. Plymouth

1812

USD 200.00 - 300.00 121.00
300 THACHER, JAMES American Modern Practice; or, A Simple Method of Prevention and Cure of Diseases. Boston

1817

USD 100.00 - 150.00 66.00
301 THACHER, JAMES A Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783 . . . Second Edition, Revised and Corrected. Boston

1827

USD 80.00 - 120.00 88.00
302 THACHER, JAMES American Medical Biography. Boston

1828

USD 150.00 - 250.00 220.00
303 THOMSON, SAMUEL Learned Quackery Exposed; or, Theory according to Art; as exemplified in the Practice of the Fashionable Doctors of the Present Day. [Boston?]

[1824 or later?]

USD 150.00 - 250.00 413.00
304 THOMSON, SAMUEL Group of 4 volumes. Vp

vd

USD 150.00 - 250.00 220.00
305 TRINCAVELLA, VITTORE In Galeni libros de differentiis febrium, atque in priorem de arte curandi ad Glaconem explanationes, una cum . . . tractatu de febre pestilenti. [48], 209 [i. e., 207], [1] pages * De ratione curandi particulares humani corporis affectus praelectiones. [ Venice

1575

USD 300.00 - 400.00 385.00
306 TROUSSEAU, ARMAND; and BELLOC, HIPPOLYTE A Practical Treatise on Laryngeal Phthisis, Chronic Laryngitis, and Diseases of the Voice. BOUND WITH: Ryland, Frederick. A Treatise on the Diseases and Injuries of the Larynx and the Trachea. First American edition. Philadelphia, 1838. Garrison-Morton 32 Philadelphia

1839

USD 100.00 - 150.00 358.00
307 TYTLER, JAMES A Treatise on the Plague and Yellow Fever. Salem

1799

USD 100.00 - 150.00 66.00
308 (VACCINATION) Handwritten order to pay Charles Maitland, surgeon, $$1000 for smallpox inoculation of the King's grandchild Frederick, Prince of Wales. Np

27--28 August 1724

USD 100.00 - 200.00 330.00
309 VELPEAU, A. A. L. M. Die Embryologie und Ovologie des Menschen; oder, Beschreibende und Iconographische Geschichte der Anatomie und Physiologie des Menschlichen Eies. Ilmenau

1834

USD 100.00 - 150.00 193.00
310 (VENEREAL DISEASES) Group of 4 volumes. Hunter. A Treatise of the Venereal Disease. 6 engraved plates. 1791 * Bell. A Treatise on Gonorrhoea Virulenta, and Lues Venera. 2 volumes in one. 1795 * Swediaur. A Complete Treatise on . . . Syphilis. 1815 * Desruelles. Memoir on the Philadelphia

vd

USD 200.00 - 300.00 121.00
311 VESALIUS, ANDREAS Icones Anatomicae. (Munich)

1934 [1935]

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 3,740.00
312 (VICQ D'AZYR, FELIX) Instructions et Avis aux Habitans des Provinces Meridionales de la France, Sur la Maladie putride & pestilentielle qui detruit le Betail. Paris

1783

USD 200.00 - 300.00 303.00
313 WATERHOUSE, BENJAMIN A Synopsis of a Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine. In Four Parts. Boston

1786

USD 80.00 - 120.00 385.00
314 WEBSTER, NOAH A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases; with the Principal Phenomena of the Physical World, which precede and accompany them, and Observations deduced from the Facts stated. Hartford

1799

USD 150.00 - 250.00 495.00
315 WELCH, WILLIAM HENRY Papers and Addresses. Baltimore

1920

USD 200.00 - 300.00 303.00
316 (WELSH IMPRINT) Prif Feddyginiaeth, sef phisygwriaeth yr oesoedd gynt: yn cynnwys uwchlaw 750 o gynghorion . . . Wedi ei gyfietihu i'r Gymraeg gan J. E. allan o'r . . . Saes'neg. Y trydydd Argraffiad, [etc.]. Caernarvon

early 1800s?

USD 100.00 - 150.00 275.00
317 WHITE, J. WILLIAM; GOODSPEED, ARTHUR W.; and LEONARD, CHARLES L. /book_records/220458 Philadelphia

1896

USD 100.00 - 150.00 303.00
319 WISTAR, CASPAR A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students of Medicine. Philadelphia

1817

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
320 YATES, WILLIAM; and MACLEAN, CHARLES A View of ehe [sic] Science of Life; on the Principles established in The Elements of Medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. . . . to which is subjoined, a Treatise on the Action of Mercury upon Living Bodies . . . and a Dissertation on the Sou Philadelphia

1797

USD 80.00 - 120.00 66.00
321 (YATES, WILLIAM; and MACLEAN, CHARLES) A View of ehe [sic] Science of Life; on the Principles established in The Elements of Medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. . . . to which is subjoined, a Treatise on the Action of Mercury upon Living Bodies . . . and a Dissertation on the Sou Dover, N.H.

1801

USD 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
322 (YELLOW FEVER) Group of 6 volumes. Vp

vd

USD 150.00 - 250.00 220.00
323 YOUNG, GEORGE An Essay on Opium. London

1753

USD 80.00 - 120.00 143.00
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