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Sale Name: THE RARE BOOK COLLECTION of the BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
Auction Date: 12/06/1979 - 12/06/1979
Year of Sale: 1979
Sale Number: #1163
Total Lots: 746
Sold Lots: 745
Lots Sold: 99.9%
Unsold Lots: 1
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (USD): 217,256.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 134,180.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 196,775.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 134,260.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 196,895.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 110.34%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 1,071,810.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
721	De Venarum Ostiolis	FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE.	1603	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	15,500.00
1104	HUNDT, MAGNUS	Antropologium de ho[min]is dignitate, natura, et proprietaribus, de Elementis, partis, et membris humani corporis. De juvamentis, nocumentis, accidentibus, vitiis, remediis, et physionomia ipsorum.	1501	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	8,600.00
1416	MONDINO DE' LUZZI	Anatomia Mundini Emendata per doctore melerstat.	about 1493	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	7,800.00
1449	MUNDINUS	Anatomia Mundini, ad Vetustissimorum, erundemque aliquot Manu Scriptorum, codicum fidem collata ... per Joannem Dryandrum.	1541	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	6,800.00
1185	KETHAM, JOHANNES DE.	Fasciculus Medicinae ... Necnon anothomia Mundini.	28 March 1500	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	6,000.00
1131	ICONES PLANT ARUM MEDICINALIUM	Abbildungen von Arzneygewaechsen. Portrait of Linnaeus; 500 magnificent hand-colored copperplates.	1779-84	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,000.00
804	GADDESDEN, JOHN OF.	Rosa anglica practica medicine a capite ad pedes.	1492	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	4,600.00
905	GUY DE CHAULIAC	Cyrurgia Guidonis de cauliaco, et Cyrurgia Bruni, Theodorici Rogerii, Rolandi, Bertapalie, Lanfranci.	1498	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	4,200.00
733	FALLOPPIO, GABRIELE	Lectiones de Partibus Similaribus Humani Corporis, ex diversis Exemplaribus a VOLCHERO COITER summa cum diligentia collectae.	1575	USD 400.00 - 600.00	3,800.00
720	Valegius	FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, HIERONYMUS. De Formato Foetu.	1600	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,600.00
1342	MASCAGNI, PAOLO	Vasorum Lymphaticorum Corporis Humani Historia et Ichnographia.	1787	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	3,600.00
1349	MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA	Commentarii in Sex Libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica Materia, iam denuo ab ipso Autore recogniti, et loci plus mille aucti...	1565	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,500.00
722	Venarum Ostiolis, Formatione Ovi, & Pulli; Locutione, & eius	FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE. Opera Anatomica: de Formato Foetu	1625	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,200.00
738	FAUCHARD, PIERRE	Le Chirurgien Dentiste, ou Traite des Dents ... Portrait; 42 fine copperplates (stamped on versos).	1746	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,000.00
1147	JENNER, EDWARD	An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Dis ease discovered in some of the Western Counties of England	1798	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	3,000.00
1348	MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA	Commentarii in Libros Sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de Medica Materia.	1554	USD 600.00 - 900.00	3,000.00
1305	LYCOSTHENES, CONRAD	Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon, quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in Superioribus & his Inferioribus Mundi Regionibus, ab exordio Mundi usque ad haec nostra Tempora, acciderunt.	1557	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	2,400.00
1130	IBN BUTLAN	Tacuini Sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar Medici de Baldath, de Sex Rebus non Naturalibus ... recens Exarati.	1531	USD 400.00 - 600.00	2,000.00
1430	MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	De Sedibus, et Causis Morborum per Anatomen Indagatis, Libri Quinque.	1761	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,700.00
1164	JONES, JOHN	Plain Concise Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures; with an Appendix on Camp and Military Hospitals, principally Designed, for the Use of young Military and Naval Surgeons, in North-America	1776	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,700.00
1242	LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONJ VAN	Opera Omnia, seu Arcana Naturae, ope Exactissimorum Microscopiorum Detecta, Experimentis Variis comprobata, Epistolis ad varios illustres Viros ...		USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,700.00
1175	KAEMPFFER, ENGELBERT	Amoenitatum Exoticarum Politico-Physico-Medicarum Fasci cules V: Variae Relationes, Observationes & Descriptiones Rerum Persicarum & Ulterioris Asiae.	1712	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,600.00
840	GESNER, CONRAD, Editor	Chirurgia: de Chirurgia Scriptores Optimi quique Veteres et Recentiores, plerique in Germania antehac non editi, nunc primum in unum conjuncti Volumen.	1555	USD 300.00 - 400.00	1,600.00
1105	HUNTER, JOHN	The Natural History of the Human Teeth, explaining their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth and Diseases.	1778	USD 350.00 - 500.00	1,400.00
1436	MORGAN, JOHN	A Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America, delivered at a Public Anniversary Commencement, held in the College of Philadelphia, May 30 and 31, 1765.	1765	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,400.00

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