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
401	PISO, GULIELMUS; and MARCGRAVIUS, GEORGIUS	Historia naturalis Brasiliae	Leiden & Amsterdam	1648	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	5,290.00
402	PRITZEL, GEORG AUGUST	Thesaurus literaturae botanicae	Königstein	1972	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
403	RAY, JOHN	Philosophical Letters between the late Learned Mr. Ray and several of his Ingenious Correspondents, Natives and Foreigners. To which are added those of Francis Willughby Esq	London	1718	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
404	RÉAUMUR, RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE	Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insectes	Paris	1734-42	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,265.00
405	RÉAUMUR, RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE	Pratique de l'Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute Saison des Oiseaux Domestiques de toutes Espèces	Paris	1751	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
406	ROMANES, GEORGE JOHN	Animal Intelligence	London	1882	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
407	ROMANES, GEORGE JOHN	Mental Evolution in Animals . . . with a Posthumous Essay on Instinct. By Charles Darwin, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.	London	1883	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
408	ROMANES, GEORGE JOHN	Mental Evolution in Man. Origin of Human Faculty	London	1888	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
409	RUFFIN, EDMUND	An Essay on Calcareous Manures	Petersburg	1832	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
410	SIBBALD, SIR ROBERT	Scotia Illustrata; sive, Prodromus historiae nat-uralis	Edinburgh	1684	USD 300.00 - 500.00	431.00
411	WALLACE, SIR ALFRED RUSSEL	Studies Scientific and Social	London	1900	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
412	WEISMANN, AUGUST	Die Entstehung der Sexualzellen bei den Hydromedusen	Jena	1883	USD 100.00 - 200.00	92.00
413	WEISMANN, AUGUST	Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems	Oxford	1889	USD 80.00 - 120.00	115.00
414	WURFFBAIN, JOHANN PAUL	Salamandrologia; h. e., Descriptio Historico-Philologico-Philosophico-Medica Salamandrae	Nuremberg	1683	USD 400.00 - 600.00	747.00
415	YERKES, ROBERT M. and ADA W.	The Great Apes: A Study of Anthropoid Life	New Haven	1929	USD 50.00 - 75.00	57.00
416	NEUBURGER, MAX	Die Lehre von der Heilkraft der Natur im Wandel der Zeiten	Stuttgart	1926	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
417	BELL, SIR CHARLES	The Nervous System of the Human Body: embracing the Papers delivered to the Royal Society on the Subject of the Nerves	Washington	1833	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
418	BOERHAAVE, HERMANN	Praelectiones academicae de morbis nervo rum	Frankfurt & Leipzig	1762	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
419	CUSHING, HARVEY; and BAILEY, PERCIVAL	Tumors arising from the Blood-Vessels of the Brain	Springfield	1928	USD 200.00 - 300.00	460.00
420	GIBBS, FREDERIC A. and ERNA L.	Atlas of Electroencephalography	Cambridge	1945	USD 50.00 - 75.00	69.00
421	GOWERS, SIR WILLIAM	Diagnosis of Diseases of the Brain and of the Spinal Cord	New York	1885	USD 120.00 - 80.00	69.00
422	HEAD, HENRY	Studies in Neurology	London	1920	USD 80.00 - 120.00	172.00
423	(HISTORY.)	Group of 6 volumes	Vp		USD 80.00 - 120.00	345.00
424	JACKSON, JOHN HUGHLINGS	Selected Writings	London	1931-32	USD 100.00 - 200.00	402.00
425	LEONI, DOMENICO	Ars medendi humanos	Bologna	1576	USD 300.00 - 500.00	402.00
426	MATSUI, TAKAYOSHI and HIRANO, ASAO	An Atlas of the Human Brain for Computerized Tomography	Tokyo, Baltimore	1978, 1980, 1985	USD 100.00 - 200.00	126.00
427	(MISCELLANEOUS.)	Group of 5 volumes	Vp		USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
428	(MISCELLANEOUS.)	Group of 18 volumes	Vp		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
429	MÜLLER, JOHANNES PETER	Ueber die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen	Koblenz	1826	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	690.00
430	(OSLER, SIR WILLIAM.)	Contributions to Medical and Biological Research ... in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday, July 12, 1919	New York, London, Springfield, Park Ridge	1919, (1938), 1946, (1993)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	126.00
431	PAVLOV, IVAN PETROVICH	Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex	[London]	1927	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
432	SEERIG, ALBERT WILHELM HERRMANN	[Nerves of the face and neck.]	Breslau	1830	USD 80.00 - 120.00	258.00
433	SEERIG, ALBERT WILHELM HERRMANN	[Nerves of the face and neck.]	Breslau	1830	USD 80.00 - 120.00	373.00
434	SEERIG, ALBERT WILHELM HERRMANN	[Anatomy of the ear and eye.]	Breslau	1830	USD 80.00 - 120.00	115.00
435	SEERIG, ALBERT WILHELM HERRMANN	[Under surface of the brain.]	Breslau	1830	USD 80.00 - 120.00	258.00
436	WUNDT, WILHELM	Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie	Leipzig	1874	USD 500.00 - 750.00	402.00
437	NICANDER	Theriaca et Alexipharmaca [with Eutecnius, In Nicandri Theriaca et Alexipharmaca metaphrasis]	Florence	1764	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
438	NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE	Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not	London	[1860]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	373.00
439	BAUDELOCQUE, JEAN-LOUIS	An Abridgment of Mr. Heath's Translation of Baudelocque's Midwifery. With Notes, by William P. Dewees	Philadelphia	1811	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
440	BRAUNE, CHRISTIAN WILHELM	Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft. Nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern	Leipzig	1872	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
441	BRAUNE, CHRISTIAN WILHELM; and ZWEIFEL, PAUL	Gefrierdurchschnitte in systematischer Anordnung durch den Körper einer Hochschwangeren.	Leipzig	1890	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
442	FASBENDER, HEINRICH	Geschichte der Geburtshülfe	Jena	1906	USD 80.00 - 120.00	138.00
443	FRANKENHAEUSER, F.	Die Nerven der Gebaermutter und ihre Endigung in den glatten Muskelfasern	Jena	1867	USD 100.00 - 200.00	115.00
444	GRAAF, REGNERUS DE	De mulierum organis generationi inservien-tibus tractatus novus	Leiden	1672; 1673; 1671	USD 600.00 - 900.00	632.00
445	GRAAF, REGNERUS DE	De mulierum organis generationi inservien-tibus tractatus novus	Leiden	1672	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,610.00
446	HAUS, C. J.	Die Auscultation in Bezug auf Schwangerschaft	Würzburg	1823	USD 300.00 - 500.00	201.00
447	LEVRET, ANDRÉ	L'Art des Accouchemens . . . Troisième Édition	Paris	1766	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
448	LITZMANN, CARL CONRAD THEODOR	Das schräg-ovale Becken, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Entstehung im Gefolge einseitiger Coxalgie	Kiel	1853	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
449	MAURICEAU, FRANÇOIS	Observations sur la Grossesse et l'Accouchement des Femmes, et sur leurs Maladies & celles des Enfans Nouveau-Nez	Paris	1695	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	517.00
450	MAURICEAU, FRANÇOIS	Traité des Maladies des Femmes Grosses, et de celles qui sont accouchées . . . Septième Édition	Paris	1740-38	USD 300.00 - 500.00	431.00
451	MEIGS, CHARLES DELUCENA	Obstetrics: The Science and the Art * EMMET, THOMAS ADDIS. The Principles and Practice of Gynaecology	Philadelphia	1849; 1879	USD 100.00 - 200.00	126.00
452	MERCURIO, GERONIMO SCIPIONE	La Commare	Venice	1621	USD 300.00 - 500.00	517.00
453	MICHAELIS, GUSTAV ADOLF	Das enge Becken nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen . . . Zweite Auflage	Leipzig	1865	USD 100.00 - 200.00	126.00
454	M0LLER-CHRISTENSEN, VILHELM	The History of the Forceps: An Investigation on the Occurrence, Evolution, and Use of the Forceps from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day	Copenhagen	1938	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
455	MÜLLER, JOHANNES PETER	De respiratione foetus	Leipzig	1823	USD 300.00 - 500.00	862.00
456	NAEGELE, FRANZ KARL	Ueber den Mecanismus der Geburt	Heidelberg	1822	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
457	NAEGELE, HERMANN FRANZ JOSEPH	Die geburtshülfliche Auscultation	Mainz	1838	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,495.00
458	(OBSTETRICS.)	Group of 5 volumes	Vp		USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
459	PLAZZONI, FRANCESCO	De partibus generationi inservientibus	Leiden	1664	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
460	PORTAL, PAUL	La Pratique des Accouchemens soutenue d'un Grand Nombre d'Observations	Paris	1685	USD 400.00 - 600.00	373.00
461	RAMSBOTHAM, FRANCIS H.	The Principles and Practice of Obstetric Medicine and Surgery, in Reference to the Process of Parturition . . . Fourth American from the Enlarged and Revised London Edition	Philadelphia	1847	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
462	REINHARDT, L. F.	Der Kaiserschnitt an Todten. Eine gekrönte Preis-Abhandlung	Tübingen	1829	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
463	RIGBY, EDWARD; and STEWART, DUNCAN	Nouveau Traité sur les Hemorrhages de l'Utérus . . . précédé d'une Notice Historique sur le Traitement des Hemorrhagies Utérines; et suivi d'une Lettre de M. Chaussier sur la Structure de l'Utérus	Paris	1818	USD 200.00 - 300.00	149.00
464	SCANZONI, FRIEDRICH WILHELM	Die geburtshilflichen Operationen	Vienna	1852	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
465	SCHOTT, JOHANN ADAM CHRISTOPH	Die Controverse tiber die Nerven des Nabelstrangs und seiner Gefässe	Frankfurt am Main	1836	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
466	SCHREGER, CHRISTIAN HEINRICH THEODOR	Uibersicht der geburtshülflichen Werkzeuge und Apparate	Erlangen	1810	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
467	SCHURIG, MARTIN	Parthenologia historico-medica; hoc est, Virginitatis consideratio	Dresden & Leipzig	1729-30-31	USD 300.00 - 500.00	316.00
468	SCHURIG, MARTIN	Embryologia historico-medica; hoc est, Infantis humani consideratio physico-medico-forensis	Dresden & Leipzig	1732	USD 200.00 - 300.00	138.00
469	SEMMELWEIS, IGNAZ PHILIPP	Offener Brief an sämmtliche Professoren der Geburtshilfe	Ofen	1862	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
470	SEMMELWEIS, IGNAZ PHILIPP	Die offenen Briefe an Professoren der Geburtshilfe	Dresden	1899	USD 80.00 - 120.00	46.00
471	SEMMELWEIS, IGNAZ PHILIPP	Gesammelte Werke	Jena	1905	USD 250.00 - 350.00	287.00
472	SIEBOLD, EDUARD CASPAR JACOB VON	Abbildungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der theoretisch-praktischen Geburtshülfe, nebst beschreibender Erklärung derselben. Mit theilweiser Beibehaltung der Abbildungen des Maygrier . . . Zweite umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage	Berlin	1835	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
473	SIGWART, WALTER	Die Technik der Radikaloperationen des Uterus-Karzinoms	Wiesbaden	1911	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
474	STEIN, GEORG WILHELM	Kleine Werke zur practischen Geburtshülfe	Marburg	1798	USD 100.00 - 200.00	488.00
475	TANDLER, JULIUS; and HALBAN, JOSEF	Topographie des weiblichen Ureters mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der pathologischen Zustände und der gynäkologischen Operationen	Vienna & Leipzig	1901	USD 80.00 - 120.00	138.00
476	WENZEL, CARL	Allgemeine geburtshülfliche Betrachtungen und tiber die künstliche Frühgeburt	Mainz	1818	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
477	WITTKOWSKI, G.-J.	Group of 3 volumes	Paris		USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
478	WOYT, JOHANN JACOB	Physicalische und medicinische Abhandlung von sein Selbst-Erkänntnuss	Dresden	1723	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
479	OLIVIER, EUGENE; and VIALET, GONZAGUE	Essai de Répertoire des Ex-Libris et Fers de Reliure des Médecins et des Pharmaciens Français antérieurs à la Période Moderne	Paris	1927	USD 100.00 - 200.00	161.00
480	PARACELSUS	La Grande Chirurgie . . . traduite en François . . . Plus un Discours de la Goutte & Causes d'icelle, avec sa Guérison. Item III. Traictez de la Préparation des Médicamens [etc.]	Lyons	1603	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,035.00
481	PARÉ, AMBROISE	Oeuvres Complètes	Paris	1840-41	USD 300.00 - 500.00	316.00
482	PARÉ, AMBROISE	Another set	Paris	1840-41	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
483	PASTEUR, LOUIS	Études sur la Bière . . . avec une Théorie Nouvelle de la Fermentation	Paris	1876, 1920	USD 50.00 - 75.00	46.00
484	PASTEUR, LOUIS	Examen Critique d'un Écrit Posthume de Claude Bernard sur la Fermentation	Paris	1879	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
485	PAVLOV, IVAN PETROVICH	The Work of the Digestive Glands	London	1902, 1904	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
486	PEARSON, KARL	The Chances of Death, and Other Studies in Evolution	London	1897	USD 80.00 - 120.00	172.00
487	PETIT, PIERRE	De lacrymis libri tres	Paris	1661	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
488	PIRRI, FILIPPO	Ragionamento al Popolo . . . sulle Cagioni delle Morti Improwise frequentemente accadute nel MDCCLXXII tra gli Abitatori di Roma	Rome, Florence	1773, 1781	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
489	POMET, PIERRE	Der aufrichtige Materialist und Specerey-Händler	Leipzig	1717	USD 150.00 - 250.00	402.00
490	PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTES	or, Ana of Medical Literature	London	1825	USD 80.00 - 120.00	138.00
491	RÉCAMIER, JOSEPH-CLAUDE-ANTHELME	Recherches sur le Traitement du Cancer, par la Compression Méthodique Simple ou Combinée, et sur l'Histoire Générale de la Même Maladie	Paris	1829	USD 100.00 - 200.00	460.00
492	(REFERENCE WORKS.)	Group of 5 volumes	Vp		USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
493	(REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM.)	Medicina Salernitana; id est, Conservandae bonae valetudinis praecepta	Frankfurt	1612	USD 100.00 - 200.00	92.00
494	(REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM.)	Schola Salernitana; sive, De conservanda valetudine praecepta metrica	Rotterdam	1657	USD 100.00 - 200.00	201.00
495	REMMELIN, JOHANN	Kleiner Welt Spiegel; das ist, Abbildung göt-tlicher Schõpffung an dess menschlichen Leib, mit beygesetzter schrifftlicher Erklärung	Augsburg	1661	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,725.00
496	RH AZES	A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles . . . translated from the Original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill, M.D.	London	1848	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
497	RICHTER, AUGUST GOTTLIEB	Abhandlung von den Brtichen	Göttingen	1785	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
498	RICORD, PHILIPPE	Traité Complet des Maladies Vénériennes. Clinique Iconographique de l'Hôpital des Vénériens	Paris	1851	USD 300.00 - 500.00	460.00
499	RIGAUD, LOUIS-JEAN-BAPTISTE	Dissertation Anatomique-Physique-Métaphysique et Médicale, sur les Affections Naturelles de l'Organe de l'Ouïe	Aix	[1799/1800]	USD 50.00 - 75.00	57.00
500	ROLFINCK, WERNER	Dissertationes anatomicae methodo synthetica exaratae	Nuremberg	1656	USD 300.00 - 500.00	316.00

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.