Swann Galleries: Science, Medicine & Natural History featuring ASTRONOMY & RELATED SUBJECTS CHEMISTRY, GEOLOGY & MINERALOGY NEUROLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY including Duplicates from the University of Chicago Library and The Adler Planetarium Books from the Collections of Michael R. Bryce, M.D. and the late Morton Nathanson, M.D., 1873,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 19, 2000 - October 19, 2000

Page Size: 539 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	BOHR, NIELS	The Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution. Three Essays	Cambridge	1922	USD 80.00 - 120.00	258.00
102	BOSCOVICH, ROGER JOSEPH	A Theory of Natural Philosophy	Chicago & London	1922	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
103	BOYLE, ROBERT	Observations and Tryals about the Resemblances and Differences between a Burning Coal and Shining Wood	London	1667-68	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
104	BOYLE, ROBERT	Opera Omnia	Venice	1696-97	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
105	(BOYLE, ROBERT.) Burnet, Gilbert	A Sermon preached at the Funeral of the Honourable Robert Boyle; at St. Martins in the Fields, January 7, 1691/2	London	1692	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
106	BRAGG, SIR WILLIAM HENRY	Studies in Radioactivity	London, Cambridge	1912, 1913	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
107	CANTOR, MORITZ	Die römischen Agrimensoren und ihre Stellung in der Geschichte der Feldmesskunst. Eine historisch-mathematische Untersuchung	Leipzig	1875	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
108	CARNOT, LAZARE-NICOLAS-MARGUERITE	Réflexions sur la Méta physique du Calcul Infinitésmal	Paris	1797	USD 400.00 - 600.00	345.00
109	CHAMBERS, EPHRAIM	Cyclopaedia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences	London	1781-86	USD 500.00 - 750.00	2,300.00
110	CHAPUIS, ALFRED; and JACQUET, EUGÈNE	The History of the Self winding Watch, 1770-1931 * Technique and History of the Swiss Watch from its Beginnings to the Present Day	Neuchatel, Olten	1956, 1953	USD 100.00 - 200.00	138.00
111	BASILIUS VALENTINUS	The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony	London	1893; 1896; [1920?]	USD 80.00 - 120.00	287.00
112	BERTHOLLET, CLAUDE-LOUIS Comte	An Essay on Chemical Statics	London	1804	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
113	BOERHAAVE, HERMANN	Elementa chemiae	Leiden	1732	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,495.00
114	DALTON, JOHN	A New System of Chemical Philosophy	Manchester	1808	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,990.00
115	FERGUSON, JOHN	Bibliotheca Chemica	London	1954	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
116	[LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT.]	L'Art de Fabriquer le Salin et la Potasse	Paris	1794	USD 300.00 - 500.00	172.00
117	[MARCET, JANE.]	Conversations on Chemistry	New Haven	1809	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
118	PARACELSUS falsely attributed to	The First [Second] Part of the Key of Philosophic	London	1596	USD 300.00 - 500.00	316.00
119	PARTINGTON, JAMES RIDDICK	A History of Chemistry	London	1961-70	USD 200.00 - 300.00	316.00
120	PENINGTON, JOHN	Chemical and Economical Essays, designed to illustrate the Connection between the Theory and Practice of Chemistry, and the Application of that Science to some of the Arts and Manufactures of the United States of America	Philadelphia	1790	USD 80.00 - 120.00	431.00
121	REYNOLDSON, JOHN	Practical and Philosophical Principles of Making Malt, in which the Efficacy of the Sprinkling System is contrasted with the Hertfordshire Method	Newark & London	1808	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
122	WATSON, RICHARD	Chemical Essays	London	1793-96	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
123	CUDWORTH, RALPH	The Trae Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part	London	1678	USD 150.00 - 250.00	517.00
124	DESCARTES, RENÉ	Discours de la Méthode . . . plus la Dioptrique et les Météores, qui sont des Essais de cette Méthode. Reveuë, & corrigée en cette dernière Edition	Paris	1668	USD 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
125	DESCARTES, RENÉ	Principia philosophiae [with Specimina philosophiae seu dissertatio de methodo and Passiones animae]	Amsterdam	1677	USD 400.00 - 600.00	373.00
126	DESCARTES, RENÉ	Principia philosophiae	Amsterdam	1692	USD 100.00 - 200.00	201.00
127	EUCLID	Elementorum geometricorum. Lib. XV	Basel	August 1537	USD 250.00 - 350.00	862.00
128	EUCLID	Euclides Elements of Geometry: The first VI Books: In a Compendious Form Contracted and Demonstrated. By Captain Thomas Rudd . . . Whereunto is added, The Mathematicall Preface of Mr. John Dee	London	1650	USD 300.00 - 500.00	1,035.00
129	EUCLID	Elements of Geometry . . . published by the Care and Industry of John Leeke and George Serle	London	1671	USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,450.00
130	EUCLID	Elementorum libri XV. demonstrati, opera Is. Barrow	London	1678	USD 250.00 - 350.00	287.00
131	EUCLID	The English Euclide being, The First Six Elements of Geometry, Translated out of the Greek, with Annotations and useful Supplements, by Edmund Scarburgh, M.A.	Oxford	1705	USD 400.00 - 600.00	690.00
132	EUCLID	Euclid's Elements of Geometry, from the Latin Translation of Commandine . . . Eleventh Edition	London	1772	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
133	FERMI, ENRICO	Nuclear Physics. A Course given by Enrico Fermi. . . Notes compiled by Jay Orear, A. H. Rosenfeld, and R. A. Schluter.	Np	1949	USD 80.00 - 120.00	258.00
134	FERMI, ENRICO and SZILARD, LEO	United States Patent Office. 2,708,656. Patented May 17, 1955 . . . Neutronic Reactor . . . Application December 19, 1944, Serial No. 568,904	Washington	1955	USD 150.00 - 250.00	1,150.00
135	FLUDD, ROBERT	Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia & scientia creationis & creaturarum sacra vereque Christiana . . . explicatur	Gouda	1638	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	2,300.00
136	FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN	Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces	London	1779	USD 300.00 - 500.00	460.00
137	FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN	Observations on the Causes and Cure of Smoky Chimneys . . . Second Edition	London	1787	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
138	FRISI, PAOLOFRISI, PAOLO	Operam tomus primus[-tertius]	Milan	1782-85	USD 300.00 - 500.00	431.00
139	BARBA, ÁLVARO ALONSO	A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals . . . Second Edition	London	1740	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	977.00
140	[BURNET, THOMAS.]	The Theory of the Earth . . . Third Edition review'd by the Author	London	1697	USD 200.00 - 300.00	316.00
141	CASTILHON, JEAN-LOUIS	Des Dernières Révolutions du Globe; ou, Conjectures Physiques sur les Causes de la Dégradation Actuelle des Tremblemens de Terre, & sur la Vraisemblance de Leur Cessation Prochaine	Bouillon	1771	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
142	DANA, JAMES DWIGHT	A System of Mineralogy: including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography . . . and a Mineralogical Bibliography	New Haven	1837	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	977.00
143	DANA, JAMES DWIGHT	Manual of Geology . . . Revised Edition	Philadelphia	1864	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
144	DUFRÉNOY, PIERRE-ARMAND	Traité de Minéralogie . . . Deuxième Édition, revue, corrigée, et considérablement augmentée	Paris	1856	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
145	EMANUEL, HARRY	Diamonds and Precious Stones: Their History, Value, and Distinguishing Characteristics . . . Second Edition	London	1867, 1875	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
146	FARRINGTON, OLIVER CUMMINGS	Gems and Gem Minerals	Chicago	1903	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
147	FEUCHTWANGER, LEWIS	A Treatise on Gems	New York	1838	USD 500.00 - 750.00	431.00
148	FEUCHTWANGER, LEWIS	A Popular Treatise on Gems, in Reference to their Scientific Value	New York	1859	USD 300.00 - 500.00	230.00
149	GRIFFITH, RICHARD	Geological and Mining Report of the Leinster Coal District	Dublin	1814	USD 100.00 - 200.00	287.00
150	HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON	A Geognostical Essay on the Superposition of Rocks in Both Hemispheres	London	1823, 1830-40s?	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
151	JACOB, WILLIAM	An Historical Inquiry into the Production and Consumption of Precious Metals	Philadelphia, London	1832, 1880	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
152	KING, CHARLES WILLIAM	The Natural History of Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals	London	1867	USD 100.00 - 200.00	92.00
153	KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS, S.J.	Mundus subterraneus . . . editio tertia	Amsterdam	1678	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,955.00
154	KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS, S.J.	Mundus subterraneus . . . editio tertia	Amsterdam	1678	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	1,955.00
155	KLOBIUS, JUSTUS FIDUS	Ambrae historiam	Wittenberg	1666	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,150.00
156	LAET, JOANNES DE	De gemmis et lapidibus libri duo. Quibus praemittitur Theophrasti liber de lapidibus Graece & Latine	Leiden	1647	USD 500.00 - 750.00	690.00
157	LYELL, SIR CHARLES	A Manual of Elementary Geology . . . Fourth and Entirely Revised Edition	London	1852	USD 100.00 - 200.00	138.00
158	RAY, JOHN	Three Physico-Theological Discourses. Concerning I. The Primitive Chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The General Deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The Dissolution of the World, and Future Conflagration	London	1693	USD 300.00 - 500.00	517.00
159	THEOPHRASTUS	Peri ton lithon biblion . . . History of Stones . . . Second Edition; enlarged by the Addition of a Greek Index	London	1774	USD 200.00 - 300.00	316.00
160	WALSH, FRANCIS	The Antediluvian World; or, A New Theory of the Earth: Containing a Clear Account of the Form and Constitution of the Globe before the Universal Deluge . . . And also of the Origin and Causes of the said Deluge, Subterraneous Cavities, Seas, Islands, Moun	Dublin	1743	USD 100.00 - 200.00	287.00
161	WOLLASTON, TULLIE CORNTHWAITE	Opal: The Gem of the Never Never	London	1924	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
162	(GERMAN TECHNICAL MANUSCRIPTS.)	Group of 3 manuscripts in German on applied mechanics and related subjects	Np	1900	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
163	GHEZZI, NICOLO, S.J.	Dell'Origine delie Fontane e dell'Addolcimento dell'Acqua Marina Lettere	Venice	1742	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
164	HALES, WILLIAM	Analysis fluxionum	London	1800	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
165	HALL, MANLY P	An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy; being, An Interpretation of the Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals, Allegories, and Mysteries of All Ages . . . Fifth Edition	San Francisco	1928	USD 100.00 - 200.00	287.00
166	HALL, MANLY P	Another edition	Los Angeles	1975	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
167	HARRIS, JOHN	Lexicon Technicum; or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences	London	1716-23	USD 250.00 - 350.00	402.00
168	HERMES TRISMEGISTUS	The Virgin of the World . . . now first ren dered into English. With Essay Introduction and Notes by Dr. Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland	Madras	1885	USD 100.00 - 200.00	57.00
169	HERMES TRISMEGISTUS	Hermetica	Oxford	1924	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
170	HOGG, JABEZ	The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Application . . . Sixth Edition	London	1867	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
171	HONEYMAN, ROBERT	The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books and Manuscripts	London	1978-80	USD 150.00 - 250.00	115.00
172	HONEYMAN, ROBERT	Another set	London	1978-80	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
173	HOOKE, ROBERT editor	Philosophical Collections	London	1681	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
174	INGEN-HOUSZ, JAN	Nouvelles Expériences et Observations sur Divers Objets de Physique	Paris	1785-89	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
175	LA CAILLE, NICOLAS-LOUIS DE	Lectiones elementares mechanicae; seu, Brevis tractatus de motu, de aequilibrio	Vienna	1759	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
176	LANDRIANI, MARSILIO	Dell'Utilità dei Conduttori Elettrici	Milan	1784	USD 400.00 - 600.00	805.00
177	LE BLANC, V.; and ARMENGAUD, JACQUES-EUGENE and CHARLES	The Engineer and Machinist's Drawing-Book: A Complete Course for the Practical Engineer	London	1868	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
178	LEUPOLD, JACOB	Theatrum Machinarum Generale. Schauplatz des Grandes mechanischer Wissenschaften	Leipzig	1724	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	1,265.00
179	MAFFEI, FRANCESCO SCIPIONE	Arte Magica Annichilata	Verona	1754	USD 250.00 - 350.00	632.00
180	MAGALOTTI, LORENZO	Lettere Scientifiche, ed Erudite	Venice	1740	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
181	MARTIN, BENJAMIN	Biographia Philosophica; being, An Account of the Lives, Writings, and Inventions of the Most Eminent Philosophers and Mathematicians who have flourished from the Earliest Ages of the World to the Present Time	London	1764	USD 250.00 - 350.00	287.00
182	MEAD, G. R. S.	Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Short Sketches among the Gnostics mainly of the First Two Centuries	London	1900, 1929	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
183	(METEOROLOGY.) Alencé, Joachim d'	Trattato Curioso di Matematica, nel quale col Mezzo di Tre Instrumenti, cioé del Barometro, Termometro, ed Igrometro, si può conoscere, e misurare il Peso, la Leggerezza, il Caldo, il Freddo, la Secchezza e l'Umidità dell'Aria	Venice	1753	USD 300.00 - 500.00	517.00
184	(METEOROLOGY.) Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm	Darstellung der Wärme-Erscheinungen durch fünftagige Mittel von 1782 bis 1855, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung strenger Winter	Berlin	1856	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
185	(METEOROLOGY.) Luc, Jean-André de	Recherches sur les Modifications de l'Atmosphère . . . Nouvelle Édition	Paris	1784	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
186	(METEOROLOGY.) Middleton, W. E. Knowles	The History of the Barometer	Baltimore, New York	(1964), (1968)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
187	(METEOROLOGY.) Middleton, W. E. Knowles	A History of the Thermometer and Its Use in Meteorology * The History of the Barometer	Baltimore	(1966); (1968)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	149.00
188	MORGAN, THOMAS	Physico-Theology; or, A Philosophico-Moral Disquisition concerning Human Nature, Free Agency, Moral Government, and Divine Providence	London	1741	USD 80.00 - 120.00	172.00
189	NAPIER, MARK	Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms	Edinburgh & London	1834	USD 150.00 - 250.00	517.00
190	NEWTON, SIR ISAAC	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica . . . editio tertia aucta & emendata	London	1726	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	7,475.00
191	NEWTON, SIR ISAAC	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	Glasgow	1822	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
192	(NEWTON, SIR ISAAC.) Domcke, George Peter	Philosophiae Mathematicae Newtonianae illustratae	London	1730	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
193	(NEWTON, SIR ISAAC.) Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von; and Clarke, Samuel	A Collection of Papers, which passed between the late Learned Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke, in the Years 1715 and 1716. Relating to the Principles of Natural Philosophy and Religion	London	1717	USD 300.00 - 500.00	460.00
194	(NEWTON, SIR ISAAC.) Maclaurin, Colin	An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries . . . Second Edition	London	1750	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
195	(NEWTON, SIR ISAAC.) Musgrave, Samuel	Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian Mythology. II. An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Objections to the Chronology of the Olympiads	London	1782	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
196	NOLLET, JEAN-ANTOINE	Saggio intorno all'Elettricità de' Corpi	Venice	1747	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
197	PEIRCE, BENJAMIN	Physical and Celestial Mechanics	Boston	1855	USD 100.00 - 200.00	115.00
198	PITISCUS, BARTHOLOMEW	Trigonometrie; or, The Doctrine of Triangles . . . Whereunto is added (for the Mariners use) certaine Nauticall Questions, together with the finding of the Variation of the Compasse [with A Canon of Triangles]	(London)	(1630)	USD 400.00 - 600.00	488.00
199	(PRIZE BINDINGS.)	Group of 5 volumes	London		USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
200	REES, ABRAHAM	The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature . . . First American Edition	Philadelphia	1800s	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	632.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
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.