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Swann Galleries: THE RARE BOOK COLLECTION of the BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE PART I (A-E), 1159,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 01, 1979 - November 01, 1979

Page Size: 719 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ABERNETHY, JOHN	Surgical and Physiological Essays.	London	1793	USD 50.00 - 75.00	75.00
2	ABERNETHY, JOHN	Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases, and on Aneurisms; On Diseases resembling Syphilis, and on Diseases of the Urethra.	Philadelphia	1811	USD 50.00 - 75.00	65.00
3	ACKERMANN, JOHANN C. G.	Institutiones Historiae Medicinae.	Norimbergae	1792	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
4	ACREL, OLOF	Chirurgische Vorfaelle, in dem Koenigl.	Goettingen	1777	USD 50.00 - 75.00	120.00
5	ACTUARIUS	Hoc in Volumine ... De Urinis Libri Septem de Graeco sermone in Latinum conversi	Parisüs	1522	USD 250.00 - 350.00	200.00
6	ACTUARIUS	De Urinis Libri VII.	Trajecti ad Rhenum	1670	USD 80.00 - 120.00	100.00
7	ADAIR, JAMES MAKITTRICK	Commentaries on the Principles and Practice of Physic ... an Attempt on a New Plan, to connect the several Branches of Medicine.	London	1772	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
8	ADAIR, JAMES MAKITTRICK	Medical Cautions, chiefly for the Consideration of Invalids.	Bath	1787	USD 50.00 - 75.00	70.00
9	ADAMS, GEORGE	An Essay on Vision, briefly explaining the Fabric of the Eye, and the Nature of Vision, intended for the Service of those whose Eyes are Weak or Impaired.	London	1789	USD 70.00 - 100.00	140.00
10	ADAMS, JOSEPH	Observations on Morbid Poisons, Phagedaena, and Cancer, containing a comparative View of the Theories of Swediaur, Hunter, Foot, Moore, and Bell.	London	1795	USD 70.00 - 100.00	35.00
11		AETIUS OF AMIDA.	Basileae	1535	USD 250.00 - 350.00	425.00
12	AGRICOLA, JOHANN	Medicinae Herbariae Libri Duo, quorum Primus habet Herbas huius seculi Medicis communes cum veteribus ...	Basileae	1539	USD 300.00 - 400.00	450.00
13	AGRIPPA, HEINRICH CORNELIUS	De Incertitudine et Vanitate Omnium Scientiarum & Artium Liber lectu plane jucundus & elegans ... accedunt De Nobilitate et Praecellentia Foeminei Sexus.	Np	1609	USD 50.00 - 75.00	35.00
14	AGRIPPA, HENRY CORNELIUS	The Vanity of Arts and Sciences.	London	1676	USD 80.00 - 120.00	100.00
15	AHLERS, CYRIACUS	Some Observations concerning the Woman of Godlyman in Surrey ... tending to prove her extraordinary Deliveries to be a Cheat and Imposture.	London	1726	USD 50.00 - 75.00	160.00
16	AIKIN, C. R.	A Concise View of all the Most Important Facts which have hitherto appeared concerning the Cow-Pox.	Charlestown	1801	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
17	AIKIN, JOHN	Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain, from the Revival of Literature to the Time of Harvey.	London	1780	USD 70.00 - 100.00	80.00
18	AIKIN, LUCY	Memoirs of John Aikin, M.D.; with a Selection of his Miscellaneous Pieces.	Philadelphia	1824	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
19	ALANSON, EDWARD	Practical Observations on Amputation, and the After-Treatment; with an Account of the Amputation above the Ancle with a Flap.	London	1782	USD 60.00 - 90.00	25.00
20	ALANSON, EDWARD	Manuel Pratique de l'Amputation des Membres.	Paris	1784	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
21	ALBERTI, MICHAEL	Tentamen Lexici Realis, Observationum Medicarum, ex Variis Authoribus Selectarum, in usum Litteraturae Medicae ad Suffragia Peritorum et Doctorum Virorum ...	Halae Magdeburgicae	1727, 1731	USD 50.00 - 75.00	45.00
22	ALBERTUS MAGNUS	Liber de Muliere Forti venerabilis domini Alberti magni ...	Cologne	1499	USD 300.00 - 400.00	700.00
23	ALBERTUS MAGNUS	De Secretis Mulierum Libellus, cum Scholiis; Eiusdem de Virtutibus Herbarum, Lapidum, & Animalium; item, De Mirabilibus Mundi.	Lugduni	1596	USD 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
24	ALBERTUS MAGNUS	De Secretis Mulierum; item De Virtutibus Herbarum, Lapidum, et Animalium.	Amstelodami	1669	USD 100.00 - 150.00	50.00
25	ALBERTUS MAGNUS	L'Albert Moderne, ou Nouveaux Secrets Eprouves et Licites, recueillis d'apres les Decouvertes les plus Recentes.	Paris	1772	USD 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
26	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Explicatio Tabularum Anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii, Anatomici Summi; accedit Tabularum Editio Nova.	Leidae Batavorum	1744	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,200.00
27	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Historia Musculorum Hominis.	Leidae Batavorum	1734	USD 200.00 - 300.00	200.00
28	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Historia Musculorum Hominis.	Francofurti et Lipsiae	1784	USD 125.00 - 175.00	25.00
29	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Icones Ossium Foetus Humani, accedit Osteogeniae Brevis Historia.	Leidae Batavorum	1737	USD 300.00 - 400.00	625.00
30	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Icones Ossium Foetus Humani, accedit Osteogeniae Brevis Historia.	Leidae Batavorum	1737	USD 300.00 - 400.00	200.00
31	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Explicatio Tabularum Anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii.	Leidae	1761	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,000.00
32	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	De Ossibus Corporis Humanu ad Auditores Suos.	Vindobona	1746	USD 50.00 - 75.00	100.00
33	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves, taken from Albinus's Edition of Eustachius.	London	1749-50	USD 500.00 - 750.00	2,600.00
34	ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED	Academicarum Annotationum, Liber Primus-[Octavus].	Leidae	1754-68	USD 100.00 - 150.00	225.00
35	ALBUCASIS	Liber Theoricae necnon Practicae Alsaharavii ...	Auguste Vindelicorum	1519	USD 350.00 - 500.00	400.00
36	ALBUCASIS	De Chirurgia, Arabice et Latine.	Oxonii	1778	USD 200.00 - 300.00	1,900.00
37	ALDROVANDI, ULISSE	Monstrorum Historia, cum Paralipomenis Historiae Omnium Animalium Bartholmaeus Ambrosinus.	Bononiae	1642	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,000.00
38	ALEXANDER BENEDICTUS	De Observatione in Pestilentia.	Venetiis	1493	USD 350.00 - 500.00	950.00
39		ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS. Problemata, Omnibus Studiosis non minus utilia quam jucunda	Parisiis	1541	USD 300.00 - 400.00	100.00
40	ALEXANDER OF TRALLES	Alexandri Tralliani Medici, Lib. XII; RHAZAE De Pestilentia Libellus ex Syrorum Lingua in Graecam translatus; Jacobi Goupyli in eosdem Castigationes.	Lutetiae	1548	USD 300.00 - 400.00	400.00
41	ALEXANDER OF TRALLES	Libri Duodecim; Razae de Pestilentia Libellus.	Venetiis	1555	USD 300.00 - 400.00	350.00
42	ALEXANDER OF TRALLES	Libri Duodecim, Graeci et Latini... Joanne Guinterio Andernaco interprete, & emendatore.	Basileae	1556	USD 150.00 - 200.00	60.00
43	ALEXANDRINUS, JULIUS	Salubrium, sive de Sanitate Tuenda, Libri Trigintatres, ad Maximilianum II.	Coloniae Agrippinae	1575	USD 200.00 - 300.00	100.00
44	ALGHISI, TOMMASO	Litotomia, overo del Cavar la Pietra.	Venezia	1707	USD 150.00 - 200.00	450.00
45	ALIBERT, JEAN LOUIS	A Treatise on Malignant Intermittents.	Philadelphia	1807	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
46	ALLEN, JOHN	Synopsis Medicinae, or a Summary View of the whole Practice of Physick, being the Sentiments of the Most Celebrated Authors of all Ages.	London	1740	USD 35.00 - 50.00	100.00
47	ALLEN, JONATHAN A.	A Synopsis of Pharmacology ... designed for the use of the Members of the Vermont Academy of Medicine, and also, as a Manual for the Practitioner of Medicine.	Middlebury	1823	USD 40.00 - 60.00	125.00
48	ALLSTON, WILLIAM	An Inaugural Essay on Dropsy, or the Hydropic State of Fever.	Philadelphia	1797	USD 70.00 - 100.00	90.00
49	ALPINO, PROSPERO	De Medicina Aegyptiorum, Libri Quatuor ...	Venetiis	1591	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
50	ALPINO, PROSPERO	Medicina Aegyptiorum; accedunt ejusdem Auctoris Libri de Balsamo & Rhapontico, ut et Jacobi Bontii Medicina Indorum.	Lugduni Batavorum	1719	USD 60.00 - 90.00	180.00
51	ALPINO, PROSPERO	De Praesagienda Vita, et Morte Aegrotantium, Libri Septem.	Venetiis	1601	USD 250.00 - 350.00	275.00
52	ALPINO, PROSPERO	De Praesagienda Vita et Morte Aegrotantium, Libri Septem.	Francofurti & Lipsiae	1754	USD 50.00 - 75.00	16.00
53	ALPINO, PROSPERO	De Praesagienda Vita et Morte Aegrotantium, De Medicina Aegyptiorum.	Nordlingae	1828-29	USD 35.00 - 50.00	17.00
54	AMATUS LUSITANUS	Curationum Medicinalium Centuriae Quatuor ... quibus praemissa est Commentatio De Introitu Medici ad Aegrotantem.	Basileae	1556	USD 200.00 - 300.00	70.00
55		ANATOMICAL EXAMINATIONS: a Complete Series of Anatomical Questions, with Answers ... intended as preparation to Examinations at Surgeon's Hall.	Philadelphia	1811	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
56		ANATOMIE UNIVERSELLE DE TOUTES LES PARTIES DU CORPS HUMAIN, Representee en Figures, & exactement explique, par ***.	Paris	1731	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
57	ANDERSON, ANDREW	An Inaugural Dissertation on the Eupatorium Perfoliatum of Linnaeus.	New-York	1813	USD 60.00 - 90.00	27.00
58	ANDERSON, JOHN	Medical Remarks on Natural, Spontaneous and Artificial Evacuation.	London	1788	USD 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
59	ANDERSON, WILLIAM	System of Surgical Anatomy.	New-York	1822	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
60	ANDRY, NICHOLAS	An Account of the Breeding of Worms in Human Bodies, their Nature and several Sorts ... with the true Means to avoid them, and Med'cines to cure them.	London	1701	USD 70.00 - 100.00	160.00
61	ARAND, FRANZ JACOB	Abhandlung von drei Krankheiten unter dem Volke im Jahre 1771 und 1772 ... und der dabey angewendeten Heilungsart.	Goettingen	1773	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
62	ARANZI, GIULIO CESARE	De Humano Foetu Liber.	Venetiis	1587	USD 300.00 - 400.00	500.00
63	ARBUTHNOT, JOHN	An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of them, according to the different Constitutions of Human Bodies.	London	1756	USD 70.00 - 100.00	40.00
64	ARCEO, FRANCISCO	A most excellent and Compendious Method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body ...	London	1588	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,200.00
65	ARCEO, FRANCISCO	De Recta Curandorum Vulnerum Ratione, et aliis ejus artis praeceptis libri II; ejusdem De Febrium Curandarum Ratione.	Amstelodami	1658	USD 60.00 - 90.00	30.00
66		ARETAEUS THE CAPPADOCIAN.	Parisiis	1554	USD 300.00 - 400.00	200.00
67		ARETAEUS THE CAPPADOCIAN.	Lugduni Batavorum	1735	USD 70.00 - 100.00	170.00
68		ARETAEUS THE CAPPADOCIAN.	Lipsiae	1828	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
69	T. F. Reynolds	ARETAEUS THE CAPPADOCIAN.	London	1837	USD 40.00 - 60.00	140.00
70	ARGELLATA, PETRUS DE.	Cirurgia magistri Petri de largelata.	Venice	1497/8	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,600.00
71	ARGENTERIO, GIOVANNI	De Urinis Liber.	Lipsiae	1682	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
72	ARISTOTLE	De Historia Animalium, Lib. IX; De Partibus Animalius et earum Causis, Libri IUI; De Generatione Animalium, Libri V.	Venetiis	1545	USD 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
73	ARISTOTLE	Opera Omnia quae extant, Graece & Latine ... Authore Guillelmo Du Val.	Lutetiae Parisiorum	1629	USD 60.00 - 90.00	375.00
74	ARISTOTLE	Bound volume containing early editions of the four pseudo-Aristotle tracts, as below, with numerous crude woodcuts.	London		USD 80.00 - 120.00	90.00
75	ARMSTRONG, GEORGE	An Essay on the Diseases Most Fatal to Infants, with Rules to be observed in the Nursing of Children.	London	1767	USD 60.00 - 90.00	220.00
76	ARMSTRONG, GEORGE	An Account of the Diseases Most Incident to Children, from the Birth till the Age of Puberty ... with an Essay on Nursing; also a General Account of the Dispensary for the Infant Poor, from 1769 to the present Time.	London	1777	USD 80.00 - 120.00	450.00
77	ARMSTRONG, GEORGE	An Account of the Diseases Most Incident to Children ...	London	1808	USD 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
78	ARMSTRONG, JOHN	A Synopsis of the History and Cure of Venereal Diseases.	London	1737	USD 50.00 - 75.00	40.00
79	ARMSTRONG, JOHN	Facts, Observations, and Practical Illustrations, relative to Puerperal Fever, Scarlet Fever, Pulmonary Consumption, and Measles ...	Hartford	1823	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
80	ARMSTRONG, JOHN	Practical Illustrations of Typhus Fever, of the Common Continued Fevers, etc., Practical Illustrations of Typhus and other Fevers.	New-York, Boston	1824, 1829	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
81	ARNAUD, GEORGE	Memoires de Chirurgie, avec Quelques Remarques Historiques sur l'Etat de la Medecine & de la Chirurgie en France & en Angleterre.	Londres	1768	USD 70.00 - 100.00	50.00
82	ARNEMAN, JUSTUS	Uebersicht der Beruehmtesten und Gebraeuchlichsten Chirurgischen Instrumente aelterer und neuerer Zeiten.	Goettingen	1796	USD 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
83	ARNOLD, FRIEDRICH	Ueber den Ohrknoten: eine Anatomisch-Physiologische Abhandlung.	Heidelberg	1828	USD 35.00 - 50.00	100.00
84	ARNOLD, THOMAS	Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity, Lunacy, or Madness.	Leicester	1782, 1786	USD 150.00 - 200.00	275.00
85		ARNOLD OF VILLANOVA.	Basileae	1585	USD 200.00 - 300.00	950.00
86	ARPHE Y VILLAFANE, JUAN DE.	Varia Commensuracion para la Escultura y Arquitectura.	Madrid	1795	USD 125.00 - 175.00	110.00
87	ARS MORIENDI	Tabula dispositorii artis moriendi.	Augsburg	before 5 June 1473	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,800.00
88	ARTEMIDORUS DALDIANUS	De Somniorum Interpretatione, Libri Quinque, iam primum a Iano Cornario medico physico Francofordensi, Latina Lingua conscripti.	Basileae	1539	USD 400.00 - 600.00	225.00
89		ARTICELLA nuperrime impressa cum quamplurimis tractatibus pristine impressioni super additis ...	Lugduni	1519	USD 250.00 - 350.00	300.00
90		ASCLEPIADIS BITHYNI FRAGMENTA.	Vinariae	1794	USD 70.00 - 100.00	90.00
91	ASSALINI, PAOLO	Observations on the Disease called the Plague, on the Dysentery, the Ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the Means of Prevention ...	New-York	1806	USD 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
92	ASTRUC, JEAN	De Morbis Venereis, Libri Novem.	Lutetiae Parisiorum	1740	USD 70.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
93	ASTRUC, JEAN	De Morbis Venereis, Libri Novem.	Venetiis	1760	USD 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
94	ASTRUC, JEAN	A Treatise of Venereal Diseases, in Nine Books ...	London	1754	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
95	ASTRUC, JEAN	A Treatise on all the Diseases incident to Women.	London	1743	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
96	ASTRUC, JEAN	A Treatise on the Diseases of Women.	London	1762-62-67	USD 50.00 - 75.00	120.00
97	ASTRUC, JEAN	A General and Compleat Treatise on all the Diseases incident to Children, from their Birth to the Age of Fifteen ... made Familiar to every Capacity.	London	1746	USD 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
98	ASTRUC, JEAN	L'Art d'Accoucher reduit a ses Principes ...	Paris	1766	USD 100.00 - 150.00	35.00
99	ASTRUC, JEAN	Traite des Maladies des Femmes.	Paris	1770	USD 50.00 - 75.00	40.00
100	AUSTRIUS, SEBASTIANUS	De Infantium sive Puerorum Morborum & Symptomatum Dignotione, turn Curatione Liber ...	Basileae	1540	USD 150.00 - 200.00	130.00

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.
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