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
501 ROWLANDSON, THOMAS Wonderfully mended. Should't [sic] have known you again!! [London]

1808

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 287.00
502 RUSH, BENJAMIN Six Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures, upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, delivered in the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia

1801

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 138.00
503 SALMON, WILLIAM Doron Medicum; or, A Supplement to the New London Dispensatory London

1683

 USD 250.00 - 350.00 345.00
504 SCARPA, ANTONIO Chirurgische Abhandlung über die angebornen krümmen Füsse der Kinder, und über die Art diese Ungestaltheit zu verbessern Vienna

1804

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 287.00
505 SCHMIDT, JACOB EDWARD l Discoveries: Who and When. A Dictionary listing Thousands of Medical and Related Scientific Discoveries in Alphabetical Order Springfield

(1959)

 USD 80.00 - 120.00 69.00
506 [SCHMUCK, MARTIN.] De occulta magico-magnetica morborum quorundam curatione naturali, tractatus; das ist, Wie man auff verborgene natürliche Weise . . . vielerley Kranckheiten heilen soll Schleusingen

[1636?]

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
507 SCHURIG, MARTIN Chylologia historico-medico; h. e., Chyli humani, sive succi hominis nutritii, consideratio physico-medico-forensis Dresden

1725

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 138.00
508 SENNERT, DANIEL Paralipomena. Quibus pramittitur methodus discendi medicinam tractatus posthumus Lyons

1643

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 69.00
509 SEVERINO, MARCO ANTONIO Therapeuta Neapolitanus; seu, Veni mecum consultor curandarum febrium & internorum omnium morborum. Inclusa paedanchone affectu pestilente, ac pueros praefocante Naples

1653

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 287.00
510 SÈZE, VICTOR DE Recherches Phisiologiques et Philosophiques sur la Sensibilité ou la Vie Animale Paris

1786

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 80.00
511 SPALLANZANI, LAZZARO Prodromo di un Opera da imprimersi sopra le Riproduzione Animali Modena

1768

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 977.00
512 SPALLANZANI, LAZZARO Opuscules de Physique, Animale et Végétale . . . Augmentés de ses Expériences sur la Digestion de l'Homme & des Animaux, traduits de l'Italien par Jean Senebier Padua & Paris

1787

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 138.00
513 SPALLANZANI, LAZZARO Opuscules de Physique, Animale et Végétale . . . Augmentés de ses Expériences sur la Digestion de l'Homme & des Animaux, traduits de l'Italien par Jean Senebier Padua & Paris

1787

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 172.00
514 SPALLANZANI, LAZZARO Dissertations relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables ... New Edition corrected and enlarged London

1789

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 126.00
515 SPALLANZANI, LAZZARO Mémoires sur la Respiration Geneva

1803

 USD 50.00 - 75.00 80.00
516 SPIGELIUS, ADRIANUS Opera omnia quae extant Amsterdam

1645

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 5,980.00
517 SPRENGEL, KURT Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneykunde . . . Zweyte, umgearbeitete Auflage Halle

1800-03

 USD 80.00 - 120.00 69.00
518 SPRENGEL, KURT Geschichte der Chirurgie Halle

1805

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 172.00
519 STAHL, GEORG ERNST Sileni Alcibiadis; i. e., Ars sanandi, cum expectatione, opposita arti curandi nuda expectatione; satyra Harveana Paris & Offenbach

1730

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 149.00
520 STAHL, GEORG ERNST De motus haemorrhoidalis, et fluxus haemorrhoidum, diversitate, bene distinguenda Paris & Offenbach

1730

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 172.00
521 STAHL, GEORG ERNST Theoria medica vera . . . editio altera correctior Halle

1737

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 126.00
522 SUDHOFF, KARL Graphische und typographische Erstlinge der Syphilisliteratur aus den Jahren 1495 und 1496. 24 plates Munich

1912

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 126.00
523 TARDIEU, AMBROISE Étude Médico-Légale sur Infanticide . . . Deuxième Édition Augmentée Paris

1880

 USD 80.00 - 120.00 345.00
524 THORER, ALBAN editor De re medica huic volumini insunt, Sorani Ephesii ... in artem medendi isagoge ... D. Oribasii Sardiani fragmentum, de victus ratione . . . C. Plinius Secundi de re medica libri V . . . L. Apuleii Madaurensis ... de herbarum virtutibus . . . Accessit his Basel

August 1528

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 690.00
525 TIEDEMANN, FRIEDRICH; and GMELIN, LEOPOLD Die Verdauung nach Versuchen Heidelberg & Leipzig

1826-27

 USD 250.00 - 350.00 172.00
526 TISSOT, SAMUEL-AUGUSTE-ANDRÉ-DAVID Essai sur les Maladies des Gens du Monde Lausanne

1770

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 138.00
527 TISSOT, SAMUEL-AUGUSTE-ANDRÉ-DAVID Second Édition augmentée Lausanne

1770

 USD 80.00 - 120.00 126.00
528 TREW, CHRISTOPH JACOB Abhandlung von einigen Verschiedenheiten welche an dem Menschen vor und nach seiner Geburt wahrgenommen werden Nuremberg

1770

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 258.00
529 VALSALVA, ANTONIO MARIA Opera Venice

1740

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 977.00
530 VESALIUS, ANDREAS De humani corporis fabrica libri septem Basel

1555

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 2,990.00
531 VESALIUS, ANDREAS Icones Anatomicae (Munich)

1934, 1935

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 2,300.00
532 (VESALIUS, ANDREAS.) Leveling, Heinrich Palmaz Anatomische Erklärung der Original-Figuren von Andreas Vesal, samt einer Anwendung der Winslowischen Zergliederungslehre in sieben Büchern Ingolstadt

1783

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 2,760.00
533 VESLING, JOHANN Syntagma anatomicum Padua

1651

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,495.00
534 VIOTTO, BARTOLOMEO De balneorum naturalium viribus libri quatuor Lyons

1552

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
535 VIRCHOW, RUDOLPH Die krankhaften Geschwülste. Dreissig Vorlesungen Berlin

1863-67

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
536 WALLER, ERIK Bibliotheca Walleriana: The Books illustrating the History of Medicine and Science collected by Dr. Erik Waller ... A Catalogue compiled by Hans Sallander Stockholm, reprint

1955, 1993

 USD 80.00 - 120.00 69.00
537 YOUNG, GEORGE A Treatise on Opium, founded upon Practical Observations London

1753

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 230.00
538 ZAHALON, YA'AKOV Otsar ha-Hayyim Venice

1683

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 3,910.00
539 ZWINGER, THEODOR, the Younger Paedojatreja Practica Basel

1722

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 287.00
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    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.
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    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.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
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    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.
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    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.
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