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Auction Info

Sale Name
MEDICINE including Psychology, SCIENCE NATURAL HISTORY.
Auction Date
09/07/1978 - 09/07/1978
Year of Sale
1978
Sale Number
#1111
Total Lots
365
Sold Lots
364
Lots Sold
99.7%
Unsold Lots
1
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
42,017.50
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
24,970.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
36,525.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
25,020.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
36,600.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
114.80%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
220,004.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
139 EHRENBERG, CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED Die Infusionsthierchen als Vollkommene Organismen: ein Blick in das Tiefere Organische Leben der Natur.

1838

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 2,000.00
32 ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology.

1838-61, 1878-1925

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,700.00
244 LONITZER, ADAM Kreuterbuch Kunstliche Conterfeytunge der Baeume, Stauden, Hecken, Kreuter, Getreyde, Gewuertze ... jetzo auffs fleissigst zum Letzenmal von neuwem ersehen, und durchauss an vielen Orten gebessert, auch weit ober vorige Edition gemehret.

1587

 USD 350.00 - 500.00 1,700.00
234 LAMARCK, CHEVALIER DE Botanique: Illustration des Genres.

1791, 1793, 1823

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 1,000.00
322 SCOPOLI, JOHANN ANTON Deliciae Florae et Faunae Insubricae, seu Novae, aut Minus Cognitae Species Plantarum et Animalium quas in Insubria Austrica.

1786-88

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 1,000.00
70 Spencer F. Baird BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA

1870

 USD 250.00 - 350.00 800.00
178 FUCHS, LEONHART De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes.

1555

 USD 350.00 - 500.00 750.00
260 F. Andre Michaux MICHAUX AND NUTTALL. The North American Sylva, or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia

1865

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 650.00
253 MEDICAE ARTIS PRINCIPES, post Hippocratem & Galenum ...

1567

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 600.00
52 BARTHOLIN, THOMAS Bartholinus Anatomy, made from the Precepts of his Father, and from the Observations of all Modern Anatomists, together with his own ... in Four Books and Four Manuals, with 153 Figures, cut in Brass, much larger and better than any have been heretofore p

1663

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 550.00
337 SURGEON-GENERAL'S CATALOGUE. Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army.

1880-1961

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 550.00
132 DODOENS, REMBERT Florum, et Coronariarum Odoratarumque Nonnullarum Herbarum Historia.

1569

 USD 250.00 - 350.00 550.00
205 HEMPRICH, F. W. and EHRENBERG, C. G. Symbolae Physicae, seu Icones et Descriptiones ...

1828-30

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 475.00
182 GALL, F. J.; and SPURZHEIM, G. Anatomie et Physiologie du Systeme Nerveux en General, et du Cerveau en Particulier. ATLAS only.

1810

 USD 60.00 - 90.00 425.00
169 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America.

1769

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 400.00
20 ALBERS, JOHANN ABRAHAM Americanische Annalen der Arzneykunde, Natur geschichte, Chemie und Physik.

1802-03-03

 USD 125.00 - 175.00 375.00
273 NATURA EXENTERATA, or Nature Unbowelled by the most Exquisite Anatomizers of Her, wherein are contained, her choicest Secrets digested into Receipts, fitted for the Cure of all sorts of Infirmities ... by several Persons of Quality and great Experience in

1655

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 375.00
222 Jardine, Sir William HUMMINGBIRDS. The Natural History of Humming-Birds.

1834-33

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 375.00
316 SAGRA, RAMON DE LA Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba.

1853

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 375.00
117 COUCH, JONATHAN A History of the Fishes of the British Islands.

1862-65

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 375.00
348 VANINI, GIULIO CESARE De Admirandis Naturae Reginae Deaeque Mortalium Arcanis, Libri Quatuor.

1616

 USD 100.00 - 150.00 320.00
327 SHAW, SIMEON Nature Displayed in the Heavens, and on the Earth, according to the latest Observations and Discoveries.

1823

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 300.00
97 BURTIN, F. X. Oryctographie de Bruxelles, ou Description des Fossiles tant Naturels qu'accidentels decouverts jusqu'a ce Jour dans les Environs de cette Ville.

1784

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 300.00
140 EINSTEIN, ALBERT Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie.

1929

 USD 250.00 - 350.00 300.00
281 PENNANT, THOMAS History of Quadrupeds.

1793

 USD 100.00 - 150.00 300.00
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    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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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.