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
101		CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.	London	1874-95	USD 40.00 - 60.00	120.00
102	CHAPTAL, J. A.	Elements of Chemistry.	Philadelphia	1801	USD 60.00 - 90.00	40.00
103	CHELIUS, MAXIMILIAN JOSEPH	Handbuch der Chirurgie.	Heidelberg und Leipzig	1828-29	USD 35.00 - 50.00	75.00
104		CHESELDEN'S PLATES OF THE HUMAN BONES, correctly reduced from the Original Copy ... with concise Explanations for the Use of Students.	Edinburgh	1816	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
105	Mueller, C.	CHOLERA. Einige Bemerkungen ueber die Asiatische Cholera fuer Aerzte.	Hannover	September 1848	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
106	CHURCH, JOHN	A Cabinet of Quadrupeds.	London	1805	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
107	CLEGG, SAMUEL, JR.	A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture and Distribution of Coal-Gas.	London	1841	USD 40.00 - 60.00	15.00
108	CLEMENS, THEODOR	Ueber die Heilwirkungen der Elektricitaet und deren Erfolgreiche Methodische Anwendung in verschiedenen Krankheiten.	Frankfurt a. M.	187.6-1879	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
109	Barotti, Lorenzo	COFFEE. Il Caffe: Canti Due.	Parma	1781	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
110	COMBALUSIER, FRANCISCO DE PAULA	Pneumato-Pathologia, seu Tractatus de Flatulentis Humani Corporis Affectibus.	Parisiis	1747	USD 80.00 - 120.00	50.00
111		COMMISSIONERS OF LONGITUDE. Tables Requisite to be used with the Astronomical and Nautical Ephemeris.	London	1766	USD 60.00 - 90.00	47.50
112		COMPLETE FARMER: or a General Dictionary of Husbandry, in all its Branches.	London	1766	USD 70.00 - 100.00	80.00
113	CONRADI, J. W. H.	Group of 7 volumes by him, as below.	Vp	1828-34	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
114	CORDELL, EUGENE F.	The Medical Annals of Maryland, 1799-1899.	Baltimore	1903	USD 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
115	CORVISART, J. N.	An Essay on the Organic Diseases and Lesions of the Heart and Great Vessels.	Philadelphia & Boston	1812	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
116	Riley, Charles V.	COTTON WORM. Final Report on the Cotton Worm, Together with a chapter on the Boll Worm.	Washington	1885	USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
117	COUCH, JONATHAN	A History of the Fishes of the British Islands.	London	1862-65	USD 150.00 - 200.00	375.00
118	CULPEPER, NICHOLAS	Culpeper's Complete Herbal, to which is now added up wards of One Hundred Additional Herbs.	London	1814	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
119	CUVIER, GEORGE L. C.	Illustrations of Zoology.	London	1851	USD 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
120	DARWIN, CHARLES	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.	New York	1860	USD 70.00 - 100.00	75.00
121	DARWIN, CHARLES	The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.	London	1868	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
122	DARWIN, CHARLES	The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.	London	1871	USD 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
123	DARWIN, CHARLES	The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.	New York	1971	USD 40.00 - 60.00	16.00
124	DARWIN, ERASMUS; Girtanner, Christoph	Ausfuehrliche Darstellung des Darwinschen Systemes der Praktischen Heilkunde, nebst einer Kritik desselben.	Goettingen	1799	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
125	DE KAY, JAMES E.	Zoology of New-York.	Albany	1843-44	USD 60.00 - 90.00	220.00
126	Conrad Engelhardt	DENMARK IN THE EARLY IRON AGE	Edinburgh	1866	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
127	Taft, J.	DENTISTRY. A Practical Treatise on Operative Dentistry.	Philadelphia	1868	USD 30.00 - 40.00	80.00
128	DESMAREST, A. G.	Mammalogie, ou Description des Especes de Mammifere. Premiere Partie, contenant les Ordres des Bimanes, des Quadrumanes et des Carnassiers.	Paris	1820	USD 100.00 - 150.00	260.00
129	DICKSON, SAMUEL	Fallacies of the Faculty, being the Spirit of the Chrono-Thermal System, in a Series of Lectures.	London	1839	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
130	DIERBACH, JOHANN HEINRICH	Die Neuesten Entdeckungen in der Materia Medica.	Heidelberg und Leipzig	1837-47	USD 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
131	Othniel Charles Marsh	DINOCERATA: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals.	Washington	1886	USD 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
132	DODOENS, REMBERT	Florum, et Coronariarum Odoratarumque Nonnullarum Herbarum Historia.	Antverpiae	1569	USD 250.00 - 350.00	550.00
133	DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU; HENRI LOUIS	The Elements of Agriculture ...	Dublin	1767	USD 40.00 - 60.00	100.00
134	DU PONCEAU, P. S.	An Historical Account of the Origin and Formation of the American Philosophical Society.	Philadelphia	1914	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
135	DUTTON, CLARENCE E.	Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District.	Washington	1882	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
136	William Churchill	EASTER ISLAND: the Rapanui Speech and Peopling of Southeast Polynesia.	Washington	1912	USD 30.00 - 40.00	90.00
137		EDINBURGH NEW DISPENSATORY ...	Edinburgh	1789	USD 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
138	Dr. Lewis	EDINBURGH NEW DISPENSATORY ... being an Improvement of the New Dispensatory	Philadelphia	1796	USD 60.00 - 90.00	50.00
139	EHRENBERG, CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED	Die Infusionsthierchen als Vollkommene Organismen: ein Blick in das Tiefere Organische Leben der Natur.	Leipzig	1838	USD 500.00 - 750.00	2,000.00
140	EINSTEIN, ALBERT	Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie.	Berlin	1929	USD 250.00 - 350.00	300.00
141	ENFIELD, WILLIAM	Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental.	London	1799	USD 60.00 - 90.00	50.00
142	Angelo Heilprin	ERUPTION OF PELEE: a Summary and Discussion of the Phenomena and their Sequels.	Philadelphia	1908	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
143	ESCHENMAYER, C. A.	Psychologie in Drei Theilen, als Empirische, Reine und Angewandte.	Stuttgardt und Tuebingen	1817	USD 30.00 - 40.00	110.00
144	EVELYN, JOHN	Silva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions.	York	1812	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
145	Berg; Herklots; Sturgis; Bond;	EXOTIC BIRDS. A group of 7 volumes as follows: McDonald & Loke. Birds in my Indian Garden, To Africa with the Migratory Birds, The Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, Field Book of the Birds of the Panama Canal Zone, Check-List of the Birds of the West Indies	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
146	FAUST, BERNHARD CHRISTOPH	Ueber Einige Versuche zur Weiteren Untersuchung der Wirkungen ... der Kuhpocken-Materie.	Hannover	1802	USD 60.00 - 90.00	120.00
147		FEESTBUNDEL, uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, bij Gelegenheid van zijn 150 Jarig Bestaan, 1778-1928.	Weltevreden	1929	USD 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
148	Johnson, Charles	The Fern Allies: a Supplement to the Ferns of Great Britain.	London	1856	USD 50.00 - 75.00	65.00
149		FESTSCHRIFT DER 56. VERSAMMLUNG Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte.	Freiburg und Tuebingen	1883	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
150	FICINO, MARSILIO	De Vita Libri Tres, recens iam a mendis situq; vindicati ... his accessit Epidemiarum Antidotus.	Basileae	1532	USD 70.00 - 100.00	120.00
151	FIELD, HENRY M.	The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph.	New York	1892	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
152	FIGUIER, LOUIS	Les Merveilles de la Science, ou Description Populaire des Inventions Modernes.	Paris	1870's	USD 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
153	FISCHER, P.; and CROSSE, H.	Etudes sur les Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles du Mexique et du Guatemala.	Paris	1878	USD 40.00 - 60.00	100.00
154	FITCH, ASA, M.D.	An Essay upon the Wheat-Fly, The Hessian Fly, The American Currant Moth.	Albany	1846-47-48	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
155	FLEISCH, CARL BERNHARD	Handbuch ueber die Krankheiten der Kinder und ueber die Medicinisch-Physische Erziehung derselben, bis zu den Jahren der Mannbarkeit.	Leipzig	1803-12	USD 40.00 - 60.00	130.00
156	FLEISCHMANN, A.	Embryologische Untersuchungen.	Wiesbaden	1889-93	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
157	Conway and Hiatt; Marcus; Goldson; Stoltz; Cyphers; Wilson;	FLOWER ARRANGEMENT.	Vp		USD 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
158	Mohlenbrock; Sitwell; Sanders; Foley	FLOWERING PLANTS.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
159	Nixon; Foley; Macself; Lisle; Taylor; Green & Blomquist	FLOWERING PLANTS.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
160	Mitchell; Eigeldinger & Murphy; Bowles; Kraus;	FLOWERING PLANTS.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
161	Mansfield; Gibson; Hume; Wilkie;	FLOWERING PLANTS.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
162	FLOYER, SIR JOHN	Psychrolousia, oder Versuch, zu beweisen, dass Kaltes Baden gesund und nuetzlich sey.	Breslau und Leipzig	1749	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
163	FORBES, EDWARD	A Monograph of the British Naked-Eye Medusae, with Figures of all the Species.	London	1848	USD 40.00 - 60.00	16.00
164	FORBUSH, EDWARD HOWE	Birds of Massachusetts and other New England States.	Boston	1925-27-29	USD 80.00 - 120.00	90.00
165		FORENSIC MEDICINE. Group of 3 German texts, as below.	Vp		USD 35.00 - 50.00	65.00
166	Cope, Edward D.	FOSSILS. The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West.	Washington	1883	USD 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
167	Hitchcock, Edward	FOSSILS. Ichnology of New England: a Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its Fossil Footmarks.	Boston	1858	USD 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
168	Whitfield, Robert P.	FOSSILS. Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey.	Washington	1885	USD 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
169	FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN	Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America.	London	1769	USD 200.00 - 300.00	400.00
170	FRERICHS, F. T.	Klinik der Leberkrankheiten.	Braunschweig	1858-61	USD 40.00 - 60.00	90.00
171	FREUD, ANNA	Einfuehrung in die Technik der Kinderanalyse.	Wien	1927	USD 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
172	FREUD, SIGMUND	Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.	New York	1910-14-22	USD 50.00 - 75.00	45.00
173	FREUD, SIGMUND	The Interpretation of Dreams, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, The Ego and the Id, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety.	London	1913-22-27-36	USD 60.00 - 90.00	60.00
174	FREUD, SIGMUND	Leonardo da Vinci, Reflections, An Outline of Psychoanalysis.	New York	1916-22-49	USD 35.00 - 50.00	17.00
175	FREUD, SIGMUND	Collected Papers. Authorized Translation under the Supervision of Joan Riviere.	London	1924-25	USD 60.00 - 90.00	70.00
176	FREUD, SIGMUND	Zur Technik der Psychoanalyse und zur Metapsychologie., Das Unbehagen in der Kultur., Der Mann Moses und die Monotheistische Religion.	Wien, Amsterdam	1924-30, 1939	USD 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
177	Card; Darrow; Simmons; and two others	FRUIT.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
178	FUCHS, LEONHART	De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes.	Lugduni	1555	USD 350.00 - 500.00	750.00
179	FUERTES, L. A.; AND BROOKS, ALLAN	Portraits of New England Birds.	Boston	1932	USD 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
180	GADBURY, JOHN	Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions for X. Years, beginning Anno 1672 ... and ending An. 1681.	London	1672	USD 70.00 - 100.00	60.00
181		GALEN. Librorum Quarta Classis, signa quibus turn Dignoscere Morbos & Locos Affectos, tum Praescire Futura Possimus, docet.	Venetiis	1609	USD 80.00 - 120.00	170.00
182	GALL, F. J.; and SPURZHEIM, G.	Anatomie et Physiologie du Systeme Nerveux en General, et du Cerveau en Particulier. ATLAS only.	Paris	1810	USD 60.00 - 90.00	425.00
183	Rockwell, Editor; Hellyer; Moore & Masters; Free; Hersey; and two others	GARDENING.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
184	Kains & McQuesten; O'Donnell; Haworth-Booth; Free; Free; Slosson;	GARDENING.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
185	Tipping, H. Avray	GARDENS. English Gardens.	London	1925	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
186	Sands; Nichols; Nichols; Rohde; Rohde; Johnson	GARDENS'.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
187	Boot, Anselmus Boetius de	GEMS. Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia ... postea Adrianus Tollius recensuit.	Lugduni Batavorum	1647	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
188		GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.	New York	1927-45	USD 150.00 - 200.00	45.00
189	GMELIN, JOHANN FRIEDRICH	Allgemeine Geschichte der Gifte.	Leipzig, Nuernberg	1776, 1777	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
190	GMELIN, JOHANN FRIEDRICH	Allgemeine Geschichte der Pflanzengifte.	Nuernberg	1803	USD 40.00 - 60.00	110.00
191	GODMAN, JOHN D., M.D.	American Natural History.	Philadelphia	1842	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
192	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	An History of the Earth and Animated Nature.	Philadelphia	1795	USD 100.00 - 150.00	60.00
193	GOODE, GEORGE BROWN	The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States.	Washington	1884	USD 35.00 - 50.00	80.00
194	GOODE, GEORGE BROWN	Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals.	Washington	1884	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
195	GUENTHER, G. B.	Lehre von den Blutigen Operationen am Menschlichen Koerper.	Leipzig & Heidelberg	1857-61	USD 80.00 - 120.00	100.00
196	GUTFELDT, A. H. F.	Abhandlung ueber den Typhus der Tropischen Regionen oder das Gelbe Fieber.	Goettingen	1801	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
197	HAHNEMANN, SAMUEL	Organon der Heilkunst.	Dresden	1819	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
198	HALLER, ALBRECHT VON, Editor	Disputationum Anatomicarum Selectarum.	Gottingae	1750-47-48	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
199		HANNOVER. Medicinisches Conversations- u. Correspondenzblatt fuer die Aerzte im Koenigreich Hannover.	Hannover	April 1850-March 1855	USD 80.00 - 120.00	120.00
200	HARRIS, THADDEUS W., M.D.	A Treatise on some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation.	Boston	1862	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00

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