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Auction Info

Sale Name
Science, Medicine, Natural History.
Auction Date
03/20/1997 - 03/20/1997
Year of Sale
1997
Sale Number
#1752
Total Lots
308
Sold Lots
304
Lots Sold
98.7%
Unsold Lots
4
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
127,433.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
90,330.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
139,970.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
90,960.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
141,040.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
90.35%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
198,597.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
242 NEWTON, SIR ISAAC The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

1729

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,060.00
278 PARACELSUS Chirurgische Bucher und Schrifften. Title in red and black, within woodcut historiated architectural border; woodcut portrait of Paracelsus (with small hole) on next leaf.

1592

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 4,140.00
106 CUNINGHAM, WILLIAM The Cosmographical Glasse, conteinyng the Pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Navigation.

1559

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 3,910.00
257 FLUDD, ROBERT Katholikon medicorum katoptron.

1631

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 3,450.00
274 WELLING, GEORG VON Opus mago-cabbalisticum et theosophicum. Darinnen der Ursprung, Natur, Eigenschaften und Gebrauch, des Saltzes, Schwefels und Mercurii. beschrieben. wird.

1735

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 3,220.00
324 TARTAGLIA, NICCOLO La Prima[-Sesta] Parte del General Trattato de Numeri, et Misure.

1556--1560

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 2,760.00
240 MYLIUS, JOHANN DANIEL Antidotarium medico-chymicum reformatum.

1620

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 2,185.00
169 GERARD, JOHN The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Around 1800 botanical text woodcuts.

1597

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 2,070.00
325 TAYLOR, BROOK Linear Perspective; or, A New Method of representing justly All Manner of Objects as they appear to the Eye in All Situations.

1715; 1719

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,840.00
221 LOBACHEVSKIJ, NIKOLAJ IVANOVICH Group of 3 numbers of the Scientific Memoirs of Kazan University containing 2 papers by Lobachevskij.

1834--1835--1836

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 1,840.00
209 LAMARCK, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE Systeme des Animaux sans Vertebres; ou, Tableau Generale des Classes, des Ordres, et des Genres de ces Animaux.

1801

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,725.00
348 ZABAGLIA, NICCOLA Castelli, e Ponti. con Alcune Ingegnose Pratiche, e con la Descrizione del Trasporto dell'Obelisco Vaticano, e di Altri Del Cavaliere Domenico Fontana. Italian and Latin titles and preliminaries.

1743

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 1,725.00
210 LAMARCK, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE Philosophie Zoologique. Half-titles.

1809

 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 1,725.00
168 GEMMA, REINERUS, Frisius L'Arithmetique . . . traduite en Francois par Pierre Forcadel de Beziers. . . & par luy illustrees de Commentaires.

nd [preface dated 1560]

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,610.00
293 RECORD, ROBERT The Grounde of Artes: teaching the work and practise of Arithmetike. with new and neccessarie Additions. [By] J[ohn] D[ee].

1579

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,495.00
179 HELMONT, JAN BAPTISTA VAN Opuscula medica inaudita. 4 parts in one volume.

1644

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 1,380.00
148 FERMI, ENRICO Group of 5 offprints of important papers on nuclear physics.

vd

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,150.00
184 HERTWIG, CHRISTOPH Neues and Vollkommenes Berg-Buch.

1734

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,150.00
169A GODDARD, ROBERT A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes.

1919

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 1,092.00
101 COLERUS, JOHANNES Calendarium perpetuum, et viginti libri oeconomici. German and Latin text.

1632

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 1,092.00
142 EUCLID Elementorum libri XV. Greek text with Latin translation. Numerous woodcut text diagrams. [2], 350 pages * GEMMA, REINERUS, Frisius. Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis. 93, [3] leaves, the last blank.

1573, 1578

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 1,035.00
235 MILLSPAUGH, CHARLES F. American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants used as Homoeopathic Remedies.

(1887)

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 1,035.00
134 DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS De materia medica [etc.]. Greek text with Latin translation and commentary by Marcello Vergilio. [28], 753 pages * BARBARO, ERMOLAO. In Dioscoridem corollarioru[m] libri quinque. [1], 78 [i. e., 79] leaves; lacks the 2 index leaves.

1529, 1530

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 977.00
275 WELPER, EBERHARD Anatomia conjunctionis magnae; oder, Beschreibung der grossen und wol mercklichen Zusammenkunfft bey der obersten Planeten Saturns und Jupiters, welche im nechstkunfftigen 1643 Jahr erscheinen. wird. BOUND WITH: Muller, Tobias. Prognosticon astrologicum.

1642

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 977.00
149 FICINO, MARSILIO De vita libri tres . . . his accessit, eiusdem epidemiarum antidotus.

1529

 USD 250.00 - 350.00 920.00
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