Swann Galleries: MEDICINE including Psychology, SCIENCE NATURAL HISTORY., 1111,

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 07, 1978 - September 07, 1978

Page Size: 365 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Newton Bosworth	ACCIDENTS OF HUMAN LIFE; with Hints for their Prevention, or the Removal of their Consequences.	London	1813	USD 60.00 - 90.00	130.00
2	ADLER, ALFRED	The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology.	New York	1924	USD 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
3	ADLER, ALFRED	Social Interest: a Challenge to Mankind.	London	1938	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
4	ADLER, ALFRED	Study of Organ Inferiority and its Psychical Compensation, The Neurotic Constitution, The Case of Miss R., Problems of Neurosis.	New York, London	1917-26-29, 1929	USD 30.00 - 40.00	19.00
5	ADLER, ALFRED	The Neurotic Constitution, The Case of Miss R., Problems of Neurosis.	New York, London	1926-29, 1929	USD 60.00 - 90.00	70.00
6	ADLER, ALFRED	Understanding Human Nature, The Science of Living, What Life Should Mean to You.	New York	1928-29-31	USD 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
7	ADLER, ALFRED	The Science of Living, Guiding the Child, The Education of Children, The Pattern of Life.	New York	1929-30-30-30	USD 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
8	ADLER, ALFRED	The Science of Living, The Education of Children, Guiding the Child, The Individual Psychology of Adler	New York	1929-30-30-56	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
9	ADLER, ALFRED, Editor	International Journal of Individual Psychology.	Chicago	1935-36	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
10	ADLER, ALFRED; Bottome; Bottome; Adler; Crookshank	Adler, a Biography, Adler Memorial Issue of Individual Psychology Bulletin, Adler, Apostle of Freedom, The Case of Mrs. A., Adler, et al. Individual Psychology and Sexual Difficulties, Way. Adler's Place in Psychology, Adler & Deutsch, eds., Essays in Ind	Vp		USD 35.00 - 50.00	16.00
11	Berget, Alphonse	AERONAUTICS. La Route de l'Air: Aeronautique, Aviation.	Paris	1911	USD 60.00 - 90.00	65.00
12	Par Comte de la Vaulx; Paul Tissandier & Charles Dollfus	AERONAUTICS. L'Aeronautique, des Origines a 1922.	Paris	1922	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
13	AGASSIZ, LOUIS	Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America.	Boston	1857-62	USD 100.00 - 150.00	210.00
14		AGRICULTURE. Gleanings from the Most Celebrated Books on Husbandry, Gardening and Rural Affairs ... with Remarks and Observations by a Gentleman of Philadelphia.	Philadelphia	1803	USD 50.00 - 75.00	22.50
15	Elliott, Henry W.	ALASKA. A Monograph of the Seal-Islands of Alaska.	Washington	1882	USD 35.00 - 50.00	65.00
16	Elliott, Henry W.	ALASKA. Report on the Seal Islands of Alaska.	Washington	1881	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
17	Ray, Lt. P. H.	ALASKA. Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska.	Washington	1885	USD 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
18	Turner, Lucien M.	ALASKA. Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska.	Washington	1886	USD 40.00 - 60.00	85.00
19	Turner, L. M.; Nelson, E. W.	ALASKA. Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska, Report upon Natural History Collections made in Alaska in 1877-81.	Washington	1886, 87	USD 60.00 - 90.00	130.00
20	ALBERS, JOHANN ABRAHAM	Americanische Annalen der Arzneykunde, Natur geschichte, Chemie und Physik.	Bremen	1802-03-03	USD 125.00 - 175.00	375.00
21	Givry; Kranzberg and Pursell; and others	ALCHEMY AND SCIENCE.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
22	J. Seboth	ALPINE PLANTS PAINTED FROM NATURE	London	1879-	USD 60.00 - 90.00	220.00
23		AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE. Memoirs.	Boston	1785	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
24		AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.	Boston	1793	USD 60.00 - 90.00	130.00
25	Elder, Walter	AMERICAN GARDENING. The Cottage Garden of America: Practical Directions for the Culture of Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables ...	Philadelphia	1849	USD 60.00 - 90.00	50.00
26		AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.	Philadelphia	1786	USD 80.00 - 120.00	100.00
27	Henry Gathmann	AMERICAN SOAPS: a Complete Treatise on the Manufacture of Soap.	Chicago	1893	USD 30.00 - 40.00	22.50
28	AMMANN, JOHANN, M.D.	Stirpium Rariorum in Imperio Ruthena, Sponte Provenientium Icones et Descriptiones.	Petropoli	1739	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
29		ANATOMY. Recueil des Planches du Systeme Anatomique, faisant partie de l'Encyclo pedie Methodique par Ordre de Matieres.	Paris	1825	USD 40.00 - 60.00	120.00
30	Warren, Edward	ANESTHETICS. Some Account of the Letheon: or, Who Is the Discoverer?	Boston	1847	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
31	J. G. Wood	ANIMATE CREATION: Popular Edition of "Our Living World,"	New York	1885	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
32		ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology.	London	1838-61, 1878-1925	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,700.00
33	Lubbock; Dawson; Gall; Duckworth	ANTHROPOLOGY, etc. The Origin of Civilisation., Fos sil Men and their Modern Representatives., Primitive Man Unveiled, or Anthropology of the Bible., Studies from the Anthropological Laboratory.	London, Cambridge	1875, 1880, 1880, 1904, 1875-80, 1904	USD 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
34	Davis, Admiral C. H.	ARCTIC. Narrative of the North Polar Expedition, U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding.	Washington	1876	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
35		ARETAEUS THE CAPPADOCIAN.	Wien	1790	USD 60.00 - 90.00	70.00
36	Francis Adams	ARETAEUS THE CAPPADOCIAN. Extant Works.	London	1856	USD 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
37		ARISTOTLE'S MASTER-PIECE, completed in Two Parts, the First containing the Secrets of Generation; the second being a Private Looking Glass for the Female Sex.	New-York	1811	USD 60.00 - 90.00	150.00
38	ARNEMAN, J., Editor	Magazin fuer die Wundarzneiwissenschaft. Zweyten Bandes Erstes Stueck, ditto, Drittes Stueck.	Goettingen	1798-99	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
39	ASHTON, JOHN	Curious Creatures in Zoology.	London	1890	USD 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
40	Garcia Franco, Salvador	ASTROLABES. Catalogo Critico de Astrolabios Existentes en Espana.	Madrid	1945	USD 70.00 - 100.00	170.00
41	Wells, Edward	ASTRONOMY. The Young Gentleman's Astronomy, Chronology, and Dialling.	London	1736	USD 35.00 - 50.00	45.00
42	Hagen, John George, S.J.	ASTRONOMY. Atlas Stellarum Variabilium.	Berolini	1899-1908	USD 60.00 - 90.00	75.00
43	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	A Synopsis of the Birds of North America.	Edinburgh	1839	USD 125.00 - 175.00	140.00
44	Homans, James E.	AUTOMOBILES. Self-Propelled Vehicles: a Practical Treatise on ... all forms of Automobiles.	New York	1909	USD 35.00 - 50.00	25.00
45	Johnson, Claude	AUTOMOBILES. The Early History of Motoring.	London	circa 1927	USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
46	AYRE, JOSEPH	Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Marasmus, and those Disorders allied to it.	Northampton, Mass.	1822	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
47	BAIRD, S. F.; BREWER; and RIDGWAY	The Water Birds of North America.	Boston	1884	USD 100.00 - 150.00	240.00
48	BALCH, HERBERT E.	Wookey Hole: its Caves and Cave Dwellers.	London	1914	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
49		BALNEOLOGY. Group of 2 books on this subject, plus 11 monographs on specific German and other springs and baths, as below.	Chiefly	1830's-60's	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
50	BARKOW, H. C. L.	Anatomische Untersuchungen ueber die Harnblase des Menschen.	Breslau	1858	USD 50.00 - 75.00	75.00
51	BARNARD, E. E.	Photographs of the Milky Way and of Comets made with the Six-Inch Willard Lens and Crocker Telescope, 1892-1895.	Sacramento	1913	USD 35.00 - 50.00	80.00
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	London	1663	USD 200.00 - 300.00	550.00
53	BARTOLI, COSIMO	Del Modo di Misurare le Distantie, le Superficie, i Corpi, le Piante, le Provincie, le Prospettive, & tutte le Altre Cose Terrene ...	Venetia	1589	USD 200.00 - 300.00	130.00
54	BAUM, FRANK G.	Atlas of U.S.A. Electric Power Industry, outlining suggested Regional Electric Power Districts ...	San Francisco	1923	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
55	BECKER, JOHANN HERRMANN	Einige Bemerkungen ueber den Einfluss der Witterung auf den Menschlichen Organismus ueberhaupt ...	Parchim	1835	USD 35.00 - 50.00	65.00
56	BENNDORF, OTTO; and others	Reisen im Suedwestlichen Kleinasien.	Wien	1884, 1889	USD 35.00 - 50.00	55.00
57	H. E. Robbins	BERKSHIRE WILD FLOWERS. 200 mounted photographs (the vast majority hand-colored) by H. E. Robbins of Pittsfield, Mass.	Np	circa 1920's	USD 150.00 - 250.00	240.00
58	BERNSTEIN, JOHANN GOTTLOB	Neues Chirurgisches Lexicon, oder Woerterbuch der Wundarzneykunst neuerer Zeiten.	Gotha	1787-88	USD 40.00 - 60.00	65.00
59	BEWICK, THOMAS	History of British Birds.	Newcastle	1797, 1804	USD 150.00 - 200.00	130.00
60	BEWICK, THOMAS	History of British Birds., I--Land Birds; II--Water Birds., A General History of Quadrupeds.	Newcastle	1804, 1824, 1804, 1824	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
61	BEWICK, THOMAS	A History of British Birds, I--Land Birds; II--Water Birds.	Newcastle	1832	USD 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
62	BEWICK, THOMAS	A General History of Quadrupeds.	Newcastle	1807	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
63	BICHAT, XAVIER	Pathologische Anatomie: Letztes Werk.	Leipzig	1827	USD 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
64	Murphy & Amadon; Peterson; Peterson; Hales	BIRDS.	Vp	1941	USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
65	Roberts; Gross; Job	BIRDS.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
66	Sprunt & Dick; Collins & Boyajian; Terres;	BIRDS.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
67	Headley; Lambeer; Peattie;	BIRDS.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
68	Edward Howe Forbush	BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS, and Other New England States.	Boston	1929-27-29	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
69	Elon Howard Eaton	BIRDS OF NEW YORK	Albany	1910, 1914	USD 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
70	Spencer F. Baird	BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA	Salem	1870	USD 250.00 - 350.00	800.00
71	May; Austing; Gordon; Hausman	BIRDS OF PREY., The Hawks of North America, The World of the Red-Tailed Hawk, Days with the Golden Eagle, Birds of Prey of Northeastern North America.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
72	Henry Seebohm	BIRDS OF SIBERIA: Record of a Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei.	London	1901	USD 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
73	BLUMENBACH, J. F.	Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Fuenfte Auflage.	Goettingen	1797	USD 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
74	BLUMENBACH, J. F.	Institutiones Physiologicae.	Gottingae	1821	USD 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
75	BLUMENBACH, J. F.	Handbuch der Vergleichenden Anatomic Engraved title; 8 copperplates.	Goettingen	1824	USD 35.00 - 50.00	65.00
76	BONANNI, FILIPPO	Rerum Naturalium Historia, nempe Quadrupedum, Insectorum, Piscium, Variorumque Marinorum Corporum Fossilium, Plantarum Exoticarum, existentium in Museo Kircheriano ...	Romae	1773	USD 400.00 - 600.00	270.00
77	BONARDI, GIOVANNI MARIA	La Grandezza, Larghezza, e Distanza di Tutte le Sfere, ridotte a nostre miglia ... con alcune chiare annotationi di LUIGI GROTTO, CIECO.	Venetia	1589	USD 80.00 - 120.00	30.00
78	BONNATERRE, ABBE; and VIEILLOT, L. P.	Ornithologie.	Paris	1823	USD 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
79	BOSCOWITZ, ARNOLD	Les Volcans et les Tremblements de Terre.	Paris	circa 1860	USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
80	BOWDITCH, HENRY I.	A Brief Plea for an Ambulance System for the Army of the United States.	Boston	1863	USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
81	BRANDT, J. F.; and RATZEBURG, J. T. C.	Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der Thiere die in der Arzneimittellehre in Betracht kommen. Erster Band.	Berlin	1829	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
82	BRAUN, JOHANN ADAM	Ueber den Werth und die Wichtigkeit der Weiblichen Brueste.	Erfurt	1805	USD 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
83	BRAUNE, C. G. C.	Versuch ueber den Pemphigus und das Blasenfieber.	Leipzig	1795	USD 35.00 - 50.00	90.00
84	BRECK, JOSEPH	The Young Florist; or Conversations on the Culture of Flowers, and of Natural History.	Boston	1833	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
85	BREUIL, HENRI	The White Lady of the Brandberg.	London	1955	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
86	Child, Samuel	BREWING. Every Man his own Brewer: a Practical Treatise, explaining the Art and Mystery of Brewing Porter, Ale, Twopenny, and Table Beer ...	London	1802	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
87	Michel, Karl	BREWING. Beitraege zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bierbrauerei.	Muenchen	1906-07	USD 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
88	BROWN, ALFRED	Old Masterpieces in Surgery.	Omaha	1928	USD 60.00 - 90.00	65.00
89	BROWN, JOHN	System der Heilkunde. Dritte von neuem durchgesehene Ausgabe... von C. H. Pfaff.	Kopenhagen	1804	USD 40.00 - 60.00	100.00
90	BROWNE, DANIEL JAY	The Sylva of North America: a Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the United States, Practically and Botanically Considered.	Boston	1832	USD 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
91	BROWNE, D. J.	The Trees of America, Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Illustrated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described.	New York	1846	USD 40.00 - 60.00	17.00
92	BRUGSCH, T.; and LEWY, F. H., Editors	Die Biologie der Person: ein Handbuch der Allgemeinen und Speziellen Konstitutionslehre.	Berlin & Wien	1926-31	USD 50.00 - 75.00	40.00
93	BUCHAN, WILLIAM	Domestic Medicine, or the Family Physician. Second American Edition, with considerable Additions, by the Author.	Philadelphia	1774	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
94	BUFFON, COUNT DE	Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects, and Reptiles.	London	1808	USD 80.00 - 120.00	150.00
95	BUFFON, COUNT DE	Natural History.	London	1812	USD 200.00 - 300.00	150.00
96		BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. Group of three Annual Reports, the 4th, 5th and 6th; each with numerous articles on American ethnology.	Washington	1886, 87, 88	USD 60.00 - 90.00	70.00
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.	Bruxelles	1784	USD 200.00 - 300.00	300.00
98	George H. Holden	CANARIES AND CAGE-BIRDS	New York	1883	USD 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
99	CARUS, CARL GUSTAV	Traite Elementaire d'Anatomie Comparee.	Bruxelles	1838	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
100	CARUS, CARL GUSTAV	Neuer Atlas der Cranioskopie, enthaltend Dreissig Tafeln Abbildungen Merkwuerdiger Todtenmasken und Schaedel.	Leipzig	1864	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

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