Swann Galleries: Medicine, Natural History, Science & Technology, featuring The Leonard Gottlieb Collection of Books on Navigation and Related Subjects with a selection of Navigating and Surveying Intruments., 1498,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 04, 1989 - May 04, 1989

Page Size: 444 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
001	ADAMANTIUS [i. e., Polemon]	Physiogonomicon [and other texts]. Greek text and Latin translation by Janus Cornarius.	Basel	1544	USD 200.00 - 300.00	358.00
002	ALPINI, PROSPERO	De praesagienda vita et morte aegrotantium libri septem . . . cum praefatione Hermanni Boerhaave . . . accedit Hieronimi Fracastorii de diebus criticis libello.	Venice	1735	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
003	(ATOMIC BOMB)	The United States Strategic Bombing Survey. The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Health and Medical Services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.	Washington, D.C.	1947	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
004	AUGENTIUS, HORATIUS	Quod homini certum non sit nascendi tempus libri duo.	Venice	1595	USD 100.00 - 150.00	523.00
005	BALMIS, FRANCISCO XAVIER	Demostracion de las Eficaces Virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las Raices de Dos Plantas de Nueva-Espana, Especies de Agave y Begonia.	Madrid	1794	USD 250.00 - 350.00	468.00
006	BAMPFIELD, ROBERT W.	A Practical Treatise on Tropical Dysentery . . . to which is added, A Practical Treatise on Scorbutic Dysentery, with Some Facts and Observations relative to Scurvy.	London	1819	USD 150.00 - 200.00	165.00
007	BENVENUTI, GIUSEPPE	Riflessioni sopra gli Effetti del Moto a Cavallo . . . Seconda Edizione.	Lucca	1772	USD 80.00 - 120.00	193.00
009	BORSARI, GEMINIANO	Una Guida all'Insegnamento della Lingua Italiana ai SordiMuti.	Modena	1855	USD 60.00 - 90.00	275.00
010	BOURGERY, J.-M.	Traite Complet de l'Anatomie de l'Homme . . . Tome Sixieme: Medicine Operatoire.	Paris	1837	USD 150.00 - 250.00	330.00
011	BROWNE, SIR THOMAS	La Religion du Medecin. Engraved additional title.	Np	1668	USD 150.00 - 250.00	193.00
012	BURNS, JOHN	The Anatomy of the Gravid Uterus.	Salem	1808	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
013	[BURTON, ROBERT]	The Anatomy of Melancholy. [Eighth edition.] Engraved title, preceding explanatory text leaf.	London	1676	USD 100.00 - 150.00	193.00
014	BUYALSKY, ILIYA VASIL EVICH	Tabulae anatomico-chirurgicae operationes lithotomiae et lithotripsiae exponentes, ad naturam depictae et aeri incisae, addita earum descriptione nec non brevi encheireseos operationum doctrina. Engraved additional title in Russian; printed title and text	St. Petersburg	1852	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
015	CALESTANI, GIROLAMO	Della Osservationi . . . Parte Prima [Seconda].	Venice	1575	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
016	CHARLETON, WALTER	Exercitationes de oeconomia animali * COLE, WILLIAM. De secretione animali.	The Hague	1681	USD 150.00 - 250.00	121.00
017	CLERC, NICOLAS-GABRIEL	Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme considere dans l'Etat de Maladie; ou, La Medecine rappelee a sa Premiere Simplicite.	Paris	1767	USD 100.00 - 150.00	99.00
018	CORNICIUS, JACOBUS	Adversus pestiferae luis contagia, in dialogi formam digestum prophylacticon . . . cum praefatione D. Philip. Melanth.	Wittemberg	1551	USD 250.00 - 350.00	154.00
019	CORVISART DES MAREST, JEAN-NICOLAS, Baron	An Essay on the Organic Lesions of the Heart and Great Vessels.	Boston	1812	USD 250.00 - 350.00	605.00
020	CRUMMER, LEROY	A List of Old Medical Books, Books on the History of Medicine and Medical Bibliography, and a List of Medical Portraits, in the Possession of LeRoy Crummer, Omaha, Nebraska.	Np	1925	USD 80.00 - 120.00	143.00
021	CRUZ, MARTIN DE LA	The De La Cruz-Badiano Aztec Herbal of 1552. Translation and Commentary by William Gates.	Baltimore	1939	USD 80.00 - 120.00	77.00
022	CURRIE, WILLIAM	An Historical Account of the Climates and Diseases of the United States of America.	Philadelphia	1792	USD 100.00 - 150.00	248.00
023	CUSHING, HARVEY	A Bio-Bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.	New York	1943	USD 100.00 - 150.00	275.00
024	DEMACHY, [-]	Manuel du Pharmacien.	Paris	1788	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
025	DENHAM, THOMAS	An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery.	London	1794--1795	USD 150.00 - 250.00	220.00
026	DEVENTER, HENDRIK VAN	Observations Importantes sur le Manuel des Accouchemens.	Paris	1734	USD 250.00 - 350.00	275.00
027	DIONIS, PIERRE	Anatomia corporis humani.	Amsterdam	1696	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
028	DORN, GERHARD	Lapis metaphysicus aut philosophicus, qui universalis medicina vera fuit patrum antiquorum, ad omnes indifferenter morbos.	Np	1570	USD 250.00 - 350.00	440.00
029	ELECTRO-MEDICAL APPARATUS	Faradic device, possibly also providing galvanic stimulation,	England (?)	late 19th century	USD 100.00 - 150.00	55.00
030	FALLOPIO, GABRIELE, spuriously attributed to.	Secreti Diversi, e Miracolosi.	Venice	late 16th century	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
031	FICINO, MARSILIO	De vita libri tres . . . accessit epidemiarum antidotus.	Basel	1532	USD 200.00 - 300.00	110.00
032	FICINO, MARSILIO	De[l]le Tre Vite.	(Venice)	(1548)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	248.00
033	FIGUEROA, JUAN DE	Opusculo de Astrologia en Medicina, y de los Terminos, y Partes de la Astronomia necessarias para el Uso della.	Lima	1660	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	2,090.00
034	FREIND, JOHN	Emmenologia: in qua fluxus muliebris menstrui phaenomena, periodi vitia, cum medendi methodo, ad rationes mechanicas exiguntur . . . editio tertia.	London	1720	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
035	GABUCCINI, GIROLAMO	Commentarius, de podagra.	Venice	1569	USD 200.00 - 300.00	248.00
036	GALEN	Extra ordinem classium libri * Galeno ascripti libri * Operum non extantium fragmenta.	Venice	1576	USD 100.00 - 200.00	99.00
037	GALEN	Librorum prima [quarta] classis.	Venice	1576	USD 100.00 - 200.00	66.00
038	GALLO, PIERO ANSELMO	Osservazioni sopra gli Errori Pratici della Medicina * Osservazioni sopra gli Errori Pratici nella Cura della Febbri. 2 volumes.	Turin	1800--1802	USD 80.00 - 120.00	77.00
039	GALTON, SIR FRANCIS	Finger Prints.	London	1892	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
040	GARDINER, JOHN	An Inquiry into the Nature, Cause, and Cure of the Gout.	Philadelphia	1793	USD 80.00 - 120.00	220.00
041	GATINARIA, MARCO; et al.	De curis egritudinum particularium noni Almansoris practica uberrima [and other texts].	(Bologna)	(1517)	USD 400.00 - 600.00	825.00
042	GHIRADELLI, CORNELIO	Cefalogia fisonomica.	Bologna	1630	USD 250.00 - 350.00	413.00
043	[GIANNELLI, GENNARO?]	Dissertatio physico-medica de vitae naturali termino, de ingeniorum varietate, de cocholata, caphe herba the, &c., de spiritu vini, seu aqua vitae, et rosoli.	Ferrara	1710	USD 80.00 - 120.00	248.00
044	GUERRA, FRANCISCO	Iconografia Medica Mexicana: Catalogo Grafico Descriptivo de los Impresos Medicos Mexicanos de 1552 a 1833 ordenados cronologicamente.	Mexico	1955	USD 80.00 - 120.00	132.00
045	GUILLAUMET, TANNEQUIN	Traicte de la Maladie nouvellement appelee Cristaline.	Lyons	1611	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
046	GUYON, LOUIS	Le Cours de Medecine en Francois, contenant le Miroir de Beaute et Sante Corporelle . . . Quatriesme Edition.	Lyons	1664	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
047	HAVERS, CLOPTON	Osteologia Nova; or, Some New Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them; with the Manner of their Accretion and Nutrition . . . Second Edition.	London	1729	USD 250.00 - 350.00	303.00
048	HEISTER, LORENZ	Institutiones chirurgicae.	Amsterdam	1750; 1747	USD 350.00 - 500.00	660.00
049	HEISTER, LORENZ	Compendium anatomicum.	Naples	1769	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
050	HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN VON	On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music . . . Second English Edition.	London	1885	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
051	HELMONT, JAN BAPTISTA VAN	Ortus Medicinae.	Amsterdam	1652	USD 250.00 - 350.00	303.00
052	HENRY, SIR EDWARD RICHARD	Classification and Uses of Finger Prints.	London	1900	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
053	HOWARD, JOHN	An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe.	Warrington	1789	USD 100.00 - 150.00	330.00
054	HUNTER, WILLIAM	Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata . . . The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus exhibited in Figures.	Birmingham	1774	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,300.00
055	HUNTER, WILLIAM	Another edition.	London	1851	USD 150.00 - 250.00	165.00
056	HYRTL, JOSZEF	Onomatologia anatomica. Geschichte und Kritik der anatomischen Sprache der Gegenwart.	Vienna	1880	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
057	(ITALIAN MEDICINE)	Group of 7 volumes.	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	660.00
059	LANCISI, GIOVANNI MARIA	De noxiis paludum effluviis, eorumque remediis.	Rome	1717	USD 250.00 - 350.00	990.00
060	LANCISI, GIOVANNI MARIA	Opera varia.	Venice	1739	USD 350.00 - 500.00	605.00
061	LANZANI, NICCOLO	Vero Metodo di servirsi dell' Acqua Fredda nelle Febbri, ed in Altri Mali si Interni, come Esterni . . . Seconda Edizione.	Naples	1723	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
062	LAVATER, J. C.	Essays on Physiognomy . . . translated into English by Thomas Holcroft.	London	1789	USD 100.00 - 200.00	110.00
063	LE CAT, CLAUDE NICOLAS	Traite de la Couleur de la Peau Humaine. FIRST EDITION of a work on human pigmentation, focusing on abnormal case histories.	Amsterdam	1765	USD 200.00 - 300.00	248.00
064	LEMNIUS, LEVINUS	Della Complessione del Corpo Humano Libri Due.	Venice	1564	USD 150.00 - 250.00	248.00
065	LEON Y GAMA, ANTONIO DE	Respuesta Satisfactoria a la Carta Apologetica que escribieron el Licenciado Don Manuel Antonio Moreno, y el Bachiller Don Alejo Ramon Sanchez.	Mexico	1783	USD 80.00 - 120.00	99.00
066	LUIGINI, LUIGI	De compescendis animi affectibus, per moralem philosophiam et medendi artem.	Basel	1562	USD 250.00 - 350.00	385.00
067	LUIGINI, LUIGI, editor	Aphrodisiacus; sive, De lue venerea.	Leiden	1728	USD 300.00 - 400.00	468.00
068	MAGNI, PAOLO	Discorsi . . . sopra il Modo di Sanguinare [etc.].	Rome	1586	USD 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
069	(MANUSCRIPT.) Clark, J. Henry	Inaugural Dissertation. The Remedial Influence of Climate. Submitted to the Public Examination of the Trustees & Professors of the College of Phys. & Surg. of the University of the State of New York . . . for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.	Np	1841	USD 150.00 - 250.00	330.00
070	MARCOLINI, F. M.	Sulle Mummie di Venzone.	Milan	1831	USD 150.00 - 250.00	275.00
071	MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA	Il Dioscoride [with text].	Venice	1548	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
072	MAYGRIER, JACQUES PIERRE	Nuevas Demostraciones de los Partos.	Paris and Mexico	1828	USD 250.00 - 350.00	358.00
073	MERCURIALE, GIROLAMO	De arte gymnastica libri sex.	[Venice]	1644?	USD 100.00 - 200.00	248.00
074	MERCURIO, GERONIMO SCIPIONE	La Commare o Raccoglitrice. Text woodcuts.	Verona	1662	USD 250.00 - 350.00	358.00
075	MERCURIO, GERONIMO SCIPIONE	Another edition.	Venice	1680	USD 150.00 - 250.00	303.00
076	MILLER, EDWARD	The Medical Works . . . collected, and accompanied with a Biographical Sketch of the Author; by Samuel Miller, D.D.	New York	1814	USD 80.00 - 120.00	121.00
077	(MISCELLANEOUS)	Group of 6 volumes.	Vp	vd	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
078	(MISCELLANEOUS)	Group of 8 volumes.	Vp	vd	USD 250.00 - 350.00	440.00
079	(MISCELLANEOUS)	Group of 9 volumes.	Italy	vd	USD 100.00 - 200.00	303.00
082	OBICIUS, HIPPOLYTUS	De nobilitate medici contra illius obtrectatores dialogus tripertitus.	Venice	1605	USD 100.00 - 150.00	550.00
083	ORTA, GARCIA DA; and MONARDES, NICOLAS DE	Dell'Historia dei Semplici Aromatici.	Venice	1616	USD 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
083A	OSLER, SIR WILLIAM	The Principles and Practice of Medicine.	New York	1892	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,320.00
084		OVERBECK REJUVENATOR	England (?)	1925	USD 100.00 - 150.00	55.00
086	PEREDA, PEDRO PABLO	In Michaelis Joannis Paschalii methodum curandi scholia.	Lyons	1587	USD 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
087	(PHARMACY)	Group of 5 volumes.	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	660.00
089	PILCHER, LEWIS STEPHEN	A List of Books by Some of the Old Masters of Medicine and Surgery together with Books on the History of Medicine and on Medical Biography.	Brooklyn	1918	USD 80.00 - 120.00	165.00
090	PLANE, G. M.	Fisiologia; ovvero, L'Arte di conoscere gli Uomini dalla loro Fisonomia . . . Seconda Edizione. 13 (of 14) engraved plates. 2 parts in one volume * LAVATER, J. C. Il Lavater Portatile. 61 hand-colored engraved plates. 2 volumes in one.	Milan	1808; 1819	USD 100.00 - 200.00	88.00
091	POLE, THOMAS	The Anatomical Instructor; or, An Illustration of the Modern and Most Approved Methods of Preparing and Preserving the Different Parts of the Human Body and of Quadrupeds, by Injection, Corrosion, Maceration, Distention, Articulation, Modelling, &c.	London	1790	USD 100.00 - 150.00	154.00
092	POMIS, DAVID DE	Enarratio brevis, de senum affectibus praecavendis atque currandis.	Venice	1588	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,320.00
093	PRIMROSE, JAMES	De vulgi erroribus in medicina libri IV.	Amsterdam	1644	USD 80.00 - 120.00	154.00
094	PUJATI, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO	Della Preservazione della Salute de' Letterati, e della Gente Applicata e Sedentaria.	Venice	1762	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
095	RAMAZZINI, BERNARDINO	De morbis artificium diatriba.	Venice	1743	USD 150.00 - 250.00	132.00
096	(RESURRECTIONISTS)	West Port Murders; or, An Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders committed by Burke and his Associates . . . also, a Report of the Trial of Burke and M'Dougal. With a Description of the Execution of Burke, his Confessions, and Memoirs of his Accomplic	Edinburgh	1829	USD 150.00 - 250.00	358.00
097	ROGANO, LEONE	In Galeni libellum de pulsibus ad tyrones commentarius [etc.].	Naples	1556	USD 150.00 - 250.00	99.00
098	ROSSELLI, TIMOTEO	Della Summa dei Secreti Universali in Ogni Materia.	Venice	1619	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
099	ROUX, PHILIBERT-JOSEPH	Nouveaux Elemens de Medicine Operatoire . . . Tome Premier [ALL PUBLISHED].	Paris	1813	USD 100.00 - 150.00	495.00
100	RUHRAEH, JOHN	Pediatrics of the Past: An Anthology.	New York	1925	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
101	[RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO]	De' Secreti del Reverendo Donno Alessio Piemontese . . . Parte Prima.	Venice	1564	USD 350.00 - 500.00	330.00
102	RUSH, BENJAMIN	An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever, as it appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the Year 1793.	Philadelphia	1794	USD 250.00 - 350.00	154.00
105	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 150.00 - 250.00	248.00
106	SANTORIO, SANTORIO	De medicina statica aphorismi. commentaria notasque addidit A. C. Lorry.	Paris	1770	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
107	SANTORIO, SANTORIO	Medicina Statica; being, The Aphorisms . . . translated into English . . . to which is added, Dr. Keill's Medicia Statica Britannica . . . as also, Medico-Physical Essays . . . Third Edition. By John Quincy, M.D.	London	1723	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00

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