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
201	A REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE	Appointed to Enquire into the Original Standards of Weights and Measures in This Kingdom, and to Consider the Laws relating thereto	London	1758	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
202	RICCARDI, PIETRO	Biblioteca Matematica Italiana	Milan	(1952)	USD 100.00 - 200.00	138.00
203	SARTON, GEORGE	An Introduction to the History of Science	Baltimore	(1927-48)	USD 250.00 - 350.00	258.00
204	SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON, editor.	Zeitschrift für spekulative Physik	Jena & Leipzig	1800-01	USD 200.00 - 300.00	517.00
205	SCHOTT, CASPAR, S.J.	Physica curiosa	Würzburg	1697	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
206	SIMSON, ROBERT	Opera quaedam reliqua	Glasgow	1776	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
207	SMYTH, HENRY D	A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945	Washington	1945	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,150.00
208	SMYTH, HENRY D	Another edition	Washington	1945	USD 150.00 - 250.00	345.00
209	SPRAT, THOMAS	The History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge . . . Second Edition Corrected	London	1702	USD 200.00 - 300.00	161.00
210	[SQUARIO, EUSEBIO.]	Dell'Elettricismo; o sia, Delle Forze Elettriche de' Corpi svelate dalla Fisica Sperimentale	Venice	1746	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
211	TAYLOR, E. G. R.	The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor & Stuart [Hanoverian] England, 1485-1714 [1714-1840]	Cambridge	1968, 1966	USD 80.00 - 120.00	230.00
212	THOMIN, MARC MITOUFLET	Traité d'Optique Méchanique	Paris	1749	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
213	THOMPSON, R. CAMPBELL	Semitic Magic, Its Origins and Development	London	1908, 1912	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
214	THOMSON, SIR JOSEPH JOHN	Conduction of Electricity through Gases	Cambridge	1903	USD 100.00 - 200.00	287.00
215	THORNDIKE, LYNN	A History of Magic and Experimental Science	New York	(1959-66)	USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
216	[WHITTEMORE, NATHANIEL.]	A Mathematical Miscellany ... By a Lover of the Mathematicks. The Second Edition Corrected	Dublin	1735	USD 100.00 - 200.00	149.00
217	WILKINS, JOHN	Mathematicall Magick; or, The Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry	London	1648	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,380.00
218	ALEXANDER, Trallianus	Libri duodecim. Razae de pestilentia libellus	Venice	1552	USD 300.00 - 500.00	201.00
219	ALEXANDER, Trallianus	Libri duodecim	Basel	(August 1556)	USD 300.00 - 500.00	373.00
220	ANDRAL, GABRIEL	Clinique Médicale . . . Quatrième Édition	Paris	1839	USD 100.00 - 200.00	149.00
221	(ANESTHESIA.) Bernard, Claude	Leçons sur les Anaesthetiques et sur l'Asphyxie	Paris	1875	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
222	(ANESTHESIA.) Gay, Martin	A Statement of the Claims of Charles T. Jackson, M.D. to the Discovery of the Applicability of Sulphuric Ether to the Prevention of Pain in Surgical Operations	Boston	1847	USD 100.00 - 200.00	230.00
223	(ANESTHESIA.) Morton, William Thomas Green	Circular. Morton's Letheon	Boston	[1847]	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
224	(ANESTHESIA.) Simpson, Sir James Young	Account of a New Anaesthetic Agent, as a Substitute for Sulphuric Ether in Surgery and Midwifery	New York	1848	USD 300.00 - 500.00	920.00
225	(ANESTHESIA.) U.S. 30th Congress, Second Session	Report No. 114. House of Representatives. William T. G. Morton--Sulphuric Ether. February 23, 1849	Washington	1849	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
226	(ANESTHESIA.) Warren, Edward	Some Account of the Letheon; or, Who is the Discoverer? . . . Third Edition--Revised and Enlarged	Boston	1847	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
227	ASELLI, GASPARE	De lactibus sive lacteis venis quarto vasorum mesaraicorum genere . . . dissertatio	Basel	1628	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	632.00
228	ASTRUC, JEAN	De morbis venereis libri sex	Paris	1738	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
229	ASTRUC, JEAN	A Treatise of Venereal Diseases	London	1754	USD 150.00 - 250.00	115.00
230	AUGENIO, ORAZIO	Epistolarum et consultationum medicinalium prioris tomi libri XII [alterius tomi libri XII]. Editio tertia	Venice	1592	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
231	AVICENNA	Canon medicinae	Lyons	24 December 1498	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	5,520.00
232	BALLENGER, EDGAR GARRISON; et al.	History of Urology	Chicago	1933	USD 80.00 - 120.00	161.00
233	BARLES, LOUIS	Les Nouvelles Découvertes sur les Organes des Hommes, servans à la Génération	Lyons	1675	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
234	BARTHOLIN, THOMAS	Historiaram anatomicarum rariorum centuria I et II [III et IV]	The Hague	[1654?]-1657	USD 250.00 - 350.00	460.00
235	BELL, SIR CHARLES	Observations on Injuries of the Spine and of the Thigh Bone; in Two Lectures	London	1824	USD 200.00 - 300.00	345.00
236	BELL, JOHN	Engravings, explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints	Edinburgh	1794	USD 200.00 - 300.00	488.00
237	BELLINI, LORENZO	De urinis et pulsibus, de missione sanguinis, de febribus, de morbis capitis, et pectoris	Leiden	1730	USD 200.00 - 300.00	138.00
238	BERGER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED	Physiologia medica; sive, De natura humana	Wittenberg	1702	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
239	BIANCHI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	De naturali in humano corpore, vitiosa morbosaque generatione historia	Turin & Geneva	1741	USD 100.00 - 200.00	161.00
240	BICHAT, MARIE-FRANÇOIS-XAVIER	Anatomie Générale, appliquée à la Physiologie et à la Médecine	Paris	1801	USD 150.00 - 250.00	149.00
241	BLUMENBACH, JOHANN FRIEDRICH	Elements of Physiology	Philadelphia	1795	USD 100.00 - 200.00	230.00
242	BOERHAAVE, HERMANN	Opera omnia medica	Venice	1723	USD 100.00 - 200.00	149.00
243	BONET, THÉOPHILE	Sepulchretum; sive, Anatomia practica, ex cadaveribus morbo denatis . . . editio altera	Geneva	1700	USD 300.00 - 500.00	373.00
244	[BONNET, CHARLES.]	Essai de Psychologie; ou, Considerations sur les Opérations de l'Ame, sur l'Habitude et sur l'Éducation	London	1755	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
245	BOTALLO, LEONARDO	Opera omnia	Leiden	1660	USD 400.00 - 600.00	2,300.00
246	BROWNE, SIR THOMAS	Religio medici	Leiden	1644	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
247	BROWNE, SIR THOMAS	Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or, Enquiries into Very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths	London	1646	USD 300.00 - 500.00	230.00
248	BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS	The Book of Cirurgia	Milan	1923	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
249	BUERGER, LEO	The Circulatory Disturbances of the Extremities, including Gangrene, Vasomotor and Trophic Disorders	Philadelphia	1924, (1937), (1939)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
250	CAREY, MATHEW	A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia . . . Third Edition, Improved	Philadelphia	1793	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
251	CELSUS	De re medica libri octo	Lyons	1627	USD 200.00 - 300.00	149.00
252	CHESELDEN, WILLIAM	Anatomical Tables of the Human Body	Boston	1796	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
253	CHEYNE, GEORGE	An Essay of Health and Long Life . . . Second Edition	London	1725	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
254	CHEYNE, GEORGE	The English Malady; or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds	London	1733	USD 250.00 - 350.00	316.00
255	CHOULANT, JOHANN LUDWIG	Bibliotheca medico-historica; sive, Catalogus librorum historicorum de re medica et scientia naturali systematicus	Leipzig	1842	USD 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
256	CLEGHORN, GEORGE	Observations on the Epidemical Diseases in Minorca. From the Year 1744, to 1749 . . . Fourth Edition	London	1779	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
257	COL DE VILARS, ÉLIE	Dictionnaire François-Latin des Termes de Médecine et de Chirurgie, avec leur Définition, leur Division, & leur Etymologic	Paris	1741	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
258	(COLLECTION CATALOGUES.)	Group of 8 volumes	Vp		USD 250.00 - 350.00	316.00
259	COOPER, SIR ASTLEY	The Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Inguinal and Congenital Hernia	London	1804	USD 300.00 - 500.00	977.00
260	COOPER, SIR ASTLEY	The Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Hernia	Philadelphia	1844	USD 100.00 - 200.00	690.00
261	COOPER, SIR ASTLEY	The Anatomy and Diseases of the Breast... To which are added, His Various Surgical Papers, now first published in a Collected Form	Philadelphia	1845	USD 100.00 - 200.00	345.00
262	CORDASCO, FRANCESCO	American Medical Imprints, 1820-1910: A Checklist	Totowa	1985	USD 100.00 - 200.00	103.00
263	CORVISART DES MARETS, JEAN-NICOLAS Baron	Essai sur les Maladies et les Lésions Organiques du Coeur et des Gros Vaisseaux . . . Troisième Édition, corrigée et augmentée	Paris	1818	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
264	CULLEN, WILLIAM	A Treatise on the Materia Medica	Edinburgh	1789	USD 100.00 - 200.00	287.00
265	DARWIN, CHARLES	The Descent of Man	London	1871	USD 400.00 - 600.00	690.00
266	DARWIN, CHARLES	The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals	London	1872	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
267	DELAFIELD, FRANCIS	Studies in Pathological Anatomy	New York	1882	USD 80.00 - 120.00	126.00
268	(DENTISTRY.)	Baumès, Jean-Baptiste-Timothée	Paris	1806	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
269	(DENTISTRY.) Fox, Joseph	Natural History and Diseases of the Human Teeth . . . Remodeled, with an Introduction and Numerous Additions, by Chapin A. Harris, M.D., D.D.S.	Philadelphia	1846	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
270	(DIDEROT and D'ALEMBERT.)	Anatomic	Paris	1763?	USD 100.00 - 200.00	575.00
271	DIGBY, SIR KENELM	Of Bodies, and of Man's Soul. To Discover the Immortality of Reasonable Souls. With Two Discourses Of the Powder of Sympathy, and Of the Vegetation of Plants	London	1669	USD 250.00 - 350.00	546.00
272	(DIPLOMA.)	Manuscript Document in German from the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, conferring degree of Doctor of Medicine on Karl Lippert von Buditz of Bohemia	Vienna	1792	USD 150.00 - 250.00	172.00
273	DUHRING, LOUIS	Atlas of Skin Diseases	Philadelphia	1876	USD 250.00 - 350.00	488.00
274	DUVERNEY, JOSEPH GUICHARD	Traité de l'Organe de l'Ouïe	Paris	1683	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	862.00
275	EBERLE, JOHN	A Treatise on the Diseases and Physical Education of Children	Cincinnati	1833	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
276	EHRLICH, PAUL and HATA, SAHACHIRO	Die experimentelle Chemotherapie der Spirillosen	Berlin	1910	USD 250.00 - 350.00	488.00
277	EIMAS, RICHARD	Heirs of Hippocrates: The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, the University of Iowa . . . Third Edition	Iowa City	1990	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
278	(ELEPHANTIASIS.) Christiano de Freitas Henriques Junior, José	Casos notables de Elefantiasis tomadas del natural por Christiano Junior durante su permanencia en el Brasil	Np	1860s	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	4,600.00
279	FABRIZZI, GIROLAMO	Operationes chirurgicae	Venice	1619	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,610.00
280	FALRET, JEAN-PIERRE	De l'Hypochondrie et du Suicide	Paris	1822	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
281	FECHNER, GUSTAV THEODOR	Vorschule der Aesthetik	Leipzig	1876	USD 150.00 - 250.00	345.00
282	FERNEL, JEAN	Universa medicina	Cologne	1679	USD 150.00 - 250.00	373.00
283	FORSTER, THOMAS	Beobachtungen über den zufàlligen und peri-odichen Einfluss von besonderen Zuständen der Atmosphäre auf die Gesundheit und die Krankheiten der Menschen, insbesondere auf den Wahnsinn	Leipzig	1822	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
284	FRACASTORO, GIROLAMO	Opera omnia	Venice	1584	USD 300.00 - 500.00	747.00
285	FREIND, JOHN	De purgantibus, in secunda variolarum confluentium febre, adhibendis epistola	Rotterdam	1720	USD 100.00 - 200.00	149.00
286	FREIND, JOHN	Opera omnia medica. Editio altera, Londinensi multo correctior et auction	Paris	1735	USD 100.00 - 200.00	115.00
287	(FREUD, SIGMUND.) Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften	Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Classe	Vienna	1877, 1882	USD 600.00 - 900.00	690.00
288	FREUD, SIGMUND	The Interpretation of Dreams . . . Authorised Translation of Third Edition with Introduction by A. A. Brill, Ph.B., M.D.	New York	1913	USD 150.00 - 250.00	1,265.00
289	FREUD, SIGMUND	Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse	Leipzig	1916-17	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
290	FULLER, THOMAS	Exanthematologia; or, An Attempt to Give a Rational Account of Eruptive Fevers, especially of the Measles and Small Pox ... To which is added, An Appendix concerning Inoculation	London	1730	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
291	GALEN	Opera . . . omnia	Basel	1549	USD 300.00 - 500.00	575.00
292	GALTON, SIR FRANCIS	Natural Inheritance	London	1889	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
293	GALTON, SIR FRANCIS	Finger Prints	London	1892	USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
294	GANDINI, CARLO	Osservazioni, Riflessioni, Nuove Scoperte	Genoa	1772	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
295	GANNAL, JEAN-NICOLAS	Histoire des Embaumements . . . Deuxième Édition, revue et augmentée	Paris	1841	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
296	GARRISON, FIELDING; MORTON, LESLIE; et al	Morton's Medical Bibliography . . . Edited by Jeremy M. Norman. Fifth Edition	Brookfield	1991	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
297	GARRISON, FIELDING; MORTON, LESLIE; et al	Morton's Medical Bibliography . . . Edited by Jeremy M. Norman. Fifth Edition	Brookfield	1991	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
298	GAUB, HIERONYMUS DAVID	L'Art de Dresser les Formules de Médecine	Paris	1749	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
299	GRAAF, REGNERUS DE	De virorum organis generationi inservien-tibus, de clysteribus et de usu siphonis in anatomia	Leiden	1672	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	690.00
300	GRAAF, REGNERUS DE	De virorum organis generationi inservien-tibus, de clysteribus et de usu siphonis in anatomia	Leiden	1668	USD 500.00 - 750.00	977.00

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.