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
301	GREEN, HORACE	On the Surgical Treatment of Polypi of the Larynx, and Oedema of the Glottis. 4 lithographed plates	New York	1852	USD 100.00 - 200.00	431.00
302	GRIFFITH, ROBERT EGLESFELD	Medical Botany; or, Descriptions of the More Important Plants used in Medicine, with their History, Properties, and Mode of Administration	Philadelphia	1847	USD 100.00 - 200.00	230.00
303	GUEDEVILLE, NICOLAS, editor	Amusement Philosophique ... en Deux Parties: Le Goutteux en Belle-Humeur et le Fébricitant Philosophe	The Hague	1743	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
304	GUIDI, GUIDO	De febribus libri VII	Padua	1591	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
305	GULL, SIR WILLIAM WITHEY	A Collection of the Published Writings	London	1894-96	USD 80.00 - 120.00	115.00
306	HALLER, ALBRECHT VON	Opuscula sua anatomica de respiratione, de monstris, aliaque minora	Göttingen	1751	USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
307	HARTMANN, ARTHUR	Atlas der Anatomie der Stirnhõhle, der vorderen Siebeinzellen und des Ductus Nasofrontalis	Wiesbaden	1900	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
308	HARVEY, GIDEON	Ars curandi morbos expectatione; item de vanitatibus, dolis, & mendaciis medicorum	Amsterdam	1695	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
309	HARVEY, WILLIAM; et al	Observationes et historiaömnes & singulae è Guilielmi Harvei libello de generatione animalium excerptae, & in accu-ratissimum ordinem redactae. Item Wilhelmi Langly de generatione animalium observationes quaedam. Accedunt Ovi faecundi singulis ab	Amsterdam	1674	USD 400.00 - 600.00	977.00
310	HARVEY, WILLIAM; et al	Another copy	Amsterdam	1674	USD 250.00 - 350.00	258.00
311	HARVEY, WILLIAM	Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis [etc.] . . . huiusque operum pars prima [Exercitationes de generatione animalium [etc.] . . . illiusque operum pars altera]	Leiden	1737	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
312	HARVEY, WILLIAM	An Anatomical Dissertation upon the Movement of the Heart	Canterbury	1894	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
313	HARVEY, WILLIAM	The Anatomical Exercises ... De motu cordis 1628: De circulatione sanguinis 1649: The first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes	London	1928	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
314	HAWKINS, BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE	A Comparative View of the Human and Animal Frame	London	1860	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
315	HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN	Handbuch der physiologischen Optik	Leipzig	1867	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
316	HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN VON	Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik	Braunschweig	1870	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
317	HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN VON	Dritte umgearbeitete Auflage	Braunschweig	1870	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
318	HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN	Die Thatsachen in der Wahrnehmung. Rede gehalten zur Stiftungsfeier der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitàt zu Berlin am 3. August 1878, überarbeitet und mit Zusätzen versehen	Berlin	1879	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
319	HENOCH, EDUARD	Lectures on Children's Diseases . . . Translated from the Fourth Edition (1889) by John Thomson	London	1889	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
320	HERRLINGER, ROBERT	History of Medical Illustration from Antiquity to 1600	New York	1970	USD 80.00 - 120.00	126.00
321	HERRLINGER, ROBERT	Another copy	New York	1970	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
322	HEWSON, WILLIAM	The Works	London	1846	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
323	HIBBERT, SAMUEL	Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; or, An Attempt to trace such Illusions to their Physical Causes	Edinburgh	1824	USD 200.00 - 300.00	149.00
324	HIPPOCRATES	De aëre, aquis & locis libellus. Eiusdem, de flatibus	Basel	1529	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
325	HIPPOCRATES	Opera . . . omnia	Paris	1546	USD 400.00 - 600.00	345.00
326	HIPPOCRATES	Opera omnia	Frankfurt am Main	1595	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,265.00
327	HODGES, NATHANIEL	Loimologia; or, An Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion	London	1721	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
328	HODGSON, JOSEPH	Engravings, intended to illustrate Some of the Diseases of Arteries	London	1815	USD 300.00 - 500.00	201.00
329	HOWARD, JOHN	An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with Various Papers relative to the Plague; together with Further Observations on Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and Additional Remarks on the Present State of those in Great Britain and Ireland . . .	London	1791	USD 250.00 - 350.00	258.00
330	HUNTER, JOHN	A Treatise on the Venereal Disease . . . Second Edition	London	1788	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
331	HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY	Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature	London	1863	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
332	HYRTL, JOSEPH	Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie * Die alten deutschen Kunstworte der Anatomie	Vienna	1879, 1884	USD 100.00 - 200.00	460.00
333	INGEGNERI, GIOVANNI	Fisionomia naturale	Padua	1626, 1626, 1627	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
334	[INSTITORIS, HENRICUS; and SPRENGER, JACOBUS.]	Malleus maleficarum, translated with an Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes by the Rev. Montague Summers	[London]	1928	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
335	JAMES, WILLIAM	The Varieties of Religious Experience	New York	1902	USD 80.00 - 120.00	149.00
336	KETHAM, JOHANNES DE	Der Fasciculus Medicinae . . . Facsimile des Venezianer Erstdruckes von 1491. Mit einer historischen Einführung von Karl Sudhoff	Milan	1925	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
337	KILLIAN, GUSTAV	Die Nebenhöhlen der Nase in ihren Lagebeziehungen zu den Nachbarorganen	Jena	1903	USD 80.00 - 120.00	258.00
338	KNIPS-MACOPPE, ALESSANDRO	De aortae polypo epistola medica	Brescia	1731	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
339	KRÄUTERMANN, VALENTIN	Aufrichtig getreuer, sorgfältiger und geschwinder Kinder-Artzt	Frankfurt & Leipzig	1740	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
340	LA BELLIÈRE, CLAUDE DE	La Physionomie Raisonnée	Paris	1664	USD 300.00 - 500.00	201.00
341	LAVERAN, CHARLES-LOUIS-ALPHONSE	Du Paludisme et de son Hématozoaire	Paris	1891	USD 80.00 - 120.00	138.00
342	LE BOË, FRANS DE	Opera medica, tarn hactenus inedita, quam variis locis & formis edita . . . editio altera correctior & emendatior	Amsterdam	1680	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
343	LE BOË, FRANS DE	Another edition	Geneva	1693	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
344	LE CAT, CLAUDE-NICOLAS	Oeuvres Physiologiques	Paris	1767	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
345	LE CLERC, DANIEL	Historia naturalis et medica latorum lumbricorum, intra hominem & alia animalia, nascentium	Geneva	1715	USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
346	LE CLERC, DANIEL	Histoire de la Médecine . . . Nouvelle Édition	Leiden	1729	USD 250.00 - 350.00	287.00
347	LEMNIUS, LEVINUS	De miraculis occultis naturae libri IIII	Jena	1588	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
348	LEVACHER DE LA FEUTRIE, THOMAS	Traité du Rakitis; ou, L'Art de redresser les Enfants Contrefaits	Paris	1772	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
349	LEWIS, SIR THOMAS	The Soldier's Heart and the Effort Syndrome	London	(1918)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	230.00
350	LEWIS, SIR THOMAS	The Blood Vessels of the Human Skin and their Responses	London	1927	USD 80.00 - 120.00	230.00
351	LICETI, FORTUNIO	De monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii. . . edi-tio novissima	Amsterdam	1665	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,495.00
352	LIEUTAUD, JOSEPH	Historia anatomico-medica, sistens numerosis-sima cadaverum humanorum extispicia	Paris	1767	USD 400.00 - 600.00	287.00
353	LIZARS, JOHN	A Series of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, accompanied with Descriptions and Physiological, Pathological, and Surgical Observations	Edinburgh	[1840?]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	2,300.00
354	[LORRY, ANNE-CHARLES DE.]	Tractatus de morbis cutaneis	Paris	1777	USD 400.00 - 600.00	920.00
355	MARTÍNEZ	MARTÍN. Anatomia Completa del Hombre	Madrid	1752	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
356	MASON, HENRY	Lectures, upon the Heart, Lungs, Pericardium, Pleura, Aspera Arteria, Membrana Intersepiens, or Mediastinum. Together with the Diaphragm. Interspersed with a Variety of Practical Remarks	Reading	[1763]	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
357	MAYER, EDUARD	Die Percussion des Unterleibes. Ein Beitrag zur Diagnose der Unterleibskrankheiten	Halle	1839	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
358	MECKEL, JOHANN FRIEDRICH, the Elder	Tractatus de morbo hernioso congenito singulari & complicato feliciter curato	Berlin	1772	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
359	MOEHSEN, JOHANN KARL WILHELM	Verzeichnis einer Sam[m]lung von Bildnissen, grösstentheils bertihmter Aerzte; so wohl in Kupferstichen, schwarzer Kunst und Holzschnitten, als auch in einigen Handzeichnungen	Berlin	1771	USD 300.00 - 500.00	575.00
360	MOORE, JOHN	Medical Sketches	London	1786	USD 80.00 - 120.00	115.00
361	MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis. . . editio secunda	Padua	1765	USD 400.00 - 600.00	977.00
362	MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	The Seats and Causes of Diseases investigated by Anatomy . . . translated from the Latin ... by Benjamin Alexander, M.D.	London	1769	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,955.00
363	NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE	Group of 3 collection catalogues	Bethesda		USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
364	NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE	Another set	Bethesda		USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
365	ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH	Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta	Edinburgh	1870	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
366	ADAMS, GEORGE the Younger	Essays on the Microscope	London	1787	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	2,530.00
367	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall History . . . whereunto is newly added the History Naturall and Experimental of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life [and New Atlantis] . . . The sixt[h] Edition	London	1651	USD 200.00 - 300.00	460.00
368	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	Eight[h] Edition, Whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry touching Metals and Minerals	London	1664	USD 100.00 - 200.00	747.00
369	BEAUGRAND, NICOLAS	Le Mareschal Expert traictant du Naturel des Chevaux, des Marques de leur Bonté, & Remède à toutes leurs Maladies	Paris	1632	USD 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
370	BIGELOW, JACOB	Florula Bostonensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and its Vicinity . . . Second Edition, greatly enlarged	Boston	1824	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
371	BRADLEY, RICHARD	A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature. Endeavouring to set forth the Several Gradations Remarkable in the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Parts of the Creation. Tending to the Composition of a Scale of Life	London	1721	USD 300.00 - 500.00	488.00
372	CATO; VARRO; COLUMELLA; and PALLADIUS	Libri de re rustica	Florence	28 September 1521	USD 600.00 - 900.00	488.00
373	CHARLETON, WALTER	Exercitationes de differentiis & nominibus animalium	Oxford	1677	USD 500.00 - 750.00	920.00
374	CLANCEY, PHILLIP ALEXANDER	A Handlist of the Birds of Southern Moçambique	Lourenço Marques	1971	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
375	COSTA, EMANUEL MENDES DA	A Natural History of Fossils . . . Vol. I. Part I	London	1757	USD 300.00 - 500.00	575.00
376	CURTIS, WILLIAM	Practical Observations on the British Grasses . . . Sixth Edition, with Considerable Additions	London	1824	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
377	CUVIER, GEORGES, Baron	Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles . . . Quatrième Édition	Paris	1836	USD 150.00 - 250.00	517.00
378	DANA, JAMES DWIGHT	Corals and Coral Islands	New York	1872	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
379	DARWIN, CHARLES	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection of. . . Fifth Thousand	London	1860	USD 500.00 - 750.00	805.00
380	DARWIN, ERASMUS	The Botanic Garden: A Poem	London	1791	USD 100.00 - 200.00	103.00
381	DIGBY, SIR KENELM	A Discourse concerning the Vegetation of Plants	London	1661	USD 400.00 - 600.00	431.00
382	DIONNE, CHARLES-EUSÈBE	Les Oiseaux du Canada	Québec	1883	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
383	DUTROCHET, RENÉ-JOACHIM-HENRI	Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire Anatomique et Physiologique des Végétaux et des Animaux	Paris	1837	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
384	EVELYN, JOHN	Silva; or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions . . . With Notes by A. Hunter M.D. F.R.S.	York	1776	USD 500.00 - 750.00	747.00
385	FABRI, HONORÉ	Tractatus duo: quorum prior est de plantis, et de generatione animalium; posterior, de homine	Nuremberg	1677	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
386	FRIES, ELIAS MAGNUS	Systema mycologicum	Lund & Greifswald	1821-32	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
387	GOÜYE, THOMAS, S.J., editor	Observations Physiques et Mathematiques pour servir à l'Histoire Naturelle, & à la Perfection de l'Astronomie & de la Géographie	Paris	1688	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,840.00
388	GREW, NEHEMIAH	Anatomie des Plantes	Paris	1675	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
389	HEINISCH, OTTOKAR	Samenatlas der wichtigsten Futterpflanzen und ihrer Unkrãuter	Berlin	(1955)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
390	HERVIEUX DE CHANTELOUP, J.-C.	Nouveau Traité des Serins de Canarie . . . Nouvelle Édition	Paris	1766	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
391	HILL, SIR JOHN	Essays in Natural History and Philosophy. Containing a Series of Discoveries, by the Assistance of Microscopes	London	1752	USD 100.00 - 200.00	287.00
392	HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY	Group of 4 volumes	London		USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
393	HUGHES, GRIFFITH	The Natural History of Barbados	London	1750	USD 500.00 - 750.00	2,300.00
394	LAMARCK, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE	Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres	Paris	1815-18	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
395	LEDERMÜLLER, MARTIN FROBENIUS	Mikroskopische Gemüthsund Augenergötzung . . . Erstes Ftinfzig	Np	1760, 1762	USD 400.00 - 600.00	632.00
396	LISTER, MARTIN	Exercitatio anatomica, in qua de cochleis, maxime terrestribus & limacibus, agitur	London	1694	USD 250.00 - 350.00	690.00
397	MUIR, JOHN	Our National Parks	Boston	1901	USD 100.00 - 200.00	201.00
398	MUIR, JOHN	My First Summer in the Sierra	Boston	1911	USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
399	MUIR, JOHN	The Yosemite	New York	1912	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
400	MURPHY, ROBERT CUSHMAN	Oceanic Birds of South America	New York	(1936)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold

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.