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
201	HAUSKA, FERDINAND	Compendium der Gesundheits-Polizei.	Wien	1859	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
202	HEDRICK, U. P.	The Cherries of New York.	Albany	1915	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
203	HEINLIN, JOHN JAMES	Synopsis Mathematica Universalis, or the Universal Mathematical Synopsis.	London	circa 1710	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
204		HELVETIUS. De L'Esprit.	Paris	1758	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
205	HEMPRICH, F. W. and EHRENBERG, C. G.	Symbolae Physicae, seu Icones et Descriptiones ...	Berolini	1828-30	USD 150.00 - 200.00	475.00
206	HENCKEL, JOACHIM FRIEDERICH	Anweisung zum Verbesserten Chirurgischen Verbande.	Berlin	1756	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
207	HENKE, ADOLPH	Handbuch zur Erkenntniss und Heilung der Kinderkrankheiten. Dritte neu druchgesehene und verbesserte Ausgabe.	Frankfurt am Main	1821	USD 30.00 - 40.00	70.00
208	HILL, SIR JOHN	A General Natural History, or New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals.	London	1748	USD 80.00 - 120.00	50.00
209	HILL, SIR JOHN	The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants, which are Remarkable for their Virtues.	Bungay	circa 1820	USD 60.00 - 90.00	120.00
210	HIMLY, KARL	Einleitung zur Augenheilkunde.	Goettingen	1830	USD 35.00 - 50.00	110.00
211	HODGSON, WILLIAM B.	Memoir on the Megatherium, and other Extinct Gigantic Quadrupeds of the Coast of Georgia; with Observations on its Geological Features.	New-York	1846	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
212	HOLLAENDER, EUGEN	Die Medizin in der Klassischen Malerei, Die Karikatur und Satire in der Medizin.	Stuttgart	1903, 1921	USD 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
213	HOLLENBERG, G. H.	Beytrag zur Practischen Baukunst, worin so wohl die Auffuehrung neuer Burgerlichen Wohnungen, also die Reparatur und Veraenderung alter Gebaeude beschrieben ...	Goettingen	1804	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
214	HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL	A Dissertation on Acute Pericarditis.	Boston	1937	USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
215	HOMAN, sic, JOHANN GEORGE	Die Land- und Haus-Apotheke, oder getreuer und gruendlicher Unterricht fuer den Bauer und Stadtmann ... nebst einem grossen Anhang von der Aechten Faerberey ... Erste Americanische Auflage.		1818	USD 35.00 - 50.00	160.00
216	HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON	Flora Boreali-Americana: or the Botany of the Northern Parts of British America, compiled principally from the Plants collected by Richardson & Drummond on the late Northern Expedition under Sir John Franklin ... Fascicules I-V.	London	1829-32	USD 150.00 - 250.00	180.00
217	HOSACK, DAVID	Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science.	New-York	1824-24-30	USD 150.00 - 200.00	270.00
218	HOUSE, HOMER D.	Wild Flowers: 364 Full-Color Illustrations, with complete Descriptive Text.	New York	1935, 1936 printing	USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
219	HULLS, JONATHAN	A Description and Draught of a New-Invented Machine for carrying Vessels or Ships Out of, or Into any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a Calm.		1855	USD 80.00 - 120.00	60.00
220	HULME, F. EDWARD	Familiar Wild Flowers.	London	nd	USD 50.00 - 75.00	40.00
221	HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDRE DE	Cosmos: Essai d'une Description Physique du Monde.	Milan	1854-61	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
222	Jardine, Sir William	HUMMINGBIRDS. The Natural History of Humming-Birds.	Edinburgh	1834-33	USD 200.00 - 300.00	375.00
223	HUTCHINSON, SIR JONATHAN	Illustrations of Clinical Surgery.	London	1878	USD 50.00 - 75.00	130.00
224	B. Daydon Jackson	INDEX KEWENSIS: an Enumeration of the Genera and Species of Flowering Plants from the Time of Linnaeus to the Year 1885.	Oxford	1893	USD 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
225	JAEGER, EDUARD VON JAXTTHAL	Ueber die Einstellungen des Dioptrischen Apparates im Menschlichen Auge.	Wien	1861	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
226	JOHNSON, ALEXANDER	Praktische Anweisung zu einem Erweiterten Gebrauch der Johnsonschen Rettungsmittel Scheinbarer Todesfaelle.	Np	circa 1790	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
227	JONES, ERNEST	Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis.	London	1951	USD 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
228	JULIAN, FRANZ	Ueber den Schlagfluss, vorzueglich der Nerven. In einer freien Uebersetzung von W. F. Domeier.	Hannover	1791	USD 35.00 - 50.00	55.00
229	KIRBY, WILLIAM; AND SPENCE, WILLIAM	An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural History of Insects.	London	1822-26	USD 80.00 - 120.00	65.00
230	KNAPP, F.	Lehrbuch der Chemischen Technologie, zum Unterricht und Selbststudium.	Braunschweig	1847	USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
231	KNIGHT, EDWARD H.	The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics.	London	circa 1875	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
232	KUEHN, C. G., Editor	Sammlung Koen. Saechsischer Medicinal-Gesetze.	Leipzig	1809	USD 35.00 - 50.00	70.00
233	KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK; AND STEVENSON, C. H.	The Book of the Pearl: the History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems.	New York	1908	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
234	LAMARCK, CHEVALIER DE	Botanique: Illustration des Genres.	Paris	1791, 1793, 1823	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,000.00
235	LANCKORONSKI, KARL, GRAFEN	Staedte Pamphyliens und Pisidiens, unter Mitwirkung von G. Niemann und E. Petersen.	Wien	1890-92	USD 50.00 - 75.00	16.00
236	LASKOWSKI, SIGISMOND	Atlas Iconographique: Anatomie Normale du Corps Humain.	Geneve	1894	USD 35.00 - 50.00	14.00
237	LATREILLE, P. A.	Insectes, Crustaces, Arachnides et Insectes.	Paris	1797, 1818	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
238	LAWRENCE, SIR WILLIAM	Abhandlung von den Bruechen ... Uebersetzt von Gerhard von dem Busch.	Bremen	1818	USD 35.00 - 50.00	45.00
239	LEREBOULLET, A.	Zoologie du Jeune Age, ou Histoire Naturelle des Animaux.	Strasbourg	1860	USD 35.00 - 50.00	65.00
240	LE SAGE, P. C, Editor	Recueil de Divers Memoires extraits de la Bibliotheque Imperiale des Ponts et Chaussees, a l'Usage de MM. les Ingenieurs.	Paris	1810	USD 80.00 - 120.00	120.00
241	LEWIS, HAIR CUTTER	A Treatise on the Hair: its Structure, Production and Growth, a Synopsis of the Diseases to which it is Liable ...	New York	1839	USD 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
242	Reynaud, Leonce	LIGHTHOUSES. Memoir upon the Illumination and Beaconage of the Coasts of France.	Washington	1876	USD 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
243	LOCKE, JOHN, M.D.	Documents Relative to the Electro-Chronograph, invented by Locke in 1848.	Newark, N.J.	1849	USD 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
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.	Franckfort	1587	USD 350.00 - 500.00	1,700.00
245	LOUDON, JOHN C.	Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, or the Trees and Shrubs of Britain.	London	1838	USD 100.00 - 150.00	50.00
246	LUCAE, CHRISTIAN GUSTAV	Zur Organischen Formenlehre.	Frankfurt	1844	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
247	LUND'BORG, H.	Medizinisch-Biologische Familienforschungen, innerhalb eines 2232koepfigen Bauerngeschlechtes in Schweden.	Jena	1913	USD 50.00 - 75.00	17.00
248	LYELL, SIR CHARLES	Lyell's Lectures on Geology: Eight Lectures ... at the Broadway Tabernacle, in the City of New-York.	New-York	1842	USD 35.00 - 50.00	80.00
249	MARSHALL, ANDREW	Untersuchungen des Gehirns im Wahnsinn und in der Wasserscheu, nebst einigen Abhandlungen ueber die Pathologie dieser Krankheiten.	Berlin	1820	USD 60.00 - 90.00	220.00
250	MASKELYNE, NEVIL	Astronomical Observations Made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.	London	1774	USD 60.00 - 90.00	55.00
251	MATHEWS, STEPHEN	Observations on Hepatic Diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies.	London	1783	USD 70.00 - 100.00	110.00
252	MAURY, MATTHEW F.	The Physical Geography of the Sea.	New York	1855	USD 200.00 - 300.00	130.00
253		MEDICAE ARTIS PRINCIPES, post Hippocratem & Galenum ...	Geneva	1567	USD 400.00 - 600.00	600.00
254		MEDICAL. Bound' volume containing two lengthy treatises in Latin, as below.		Late 16th century	USD 200.00 - 300.00	95.00
255		MEDICAL LECTURES.	Germany	early 19th century	USD 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
256	James Carson	MEDICO-LEGAL. A Vindication of the Opinions delivered in Evidence by the Medical Witnesses for the Crown, on a late Trial at Lancaster for Murder, Remarks on a later Publication, entitled "A Vindication of the Opinions ...,"	Liverpool	1808	USD 60.00 - 90.00	75.00
257	MEHEUT, MATHURIN	Etude de la Mer: Faune et Flore de la Manche et de l'Ocean.	Paris	1924	USD 40.00 - 60.00	110.00
258	MERLIERS, JEAN DE	L'Usage du Quarre Geometrique amplement descrit et demonstre.	Paris	1573	USD 80.00 - 120.00	120.00
259	METCHNIKOFF, ELIE	L'Immunite dans les Maladies Infectieuses.	Paris	1901	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
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	Philadelphia	1865	USD 500.00 - 750.00	650.00
261	MILLER, PHILIP	The Abridgement of the Gardeners Dictionary ...	London	1763	USD 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
262	MOHR, FRIEDRICH	Commentar zur Preussischen Pharmacopoe, nebst Ueberset-zung des Textes.	Braunschweig	1865	USD 30.00 - 40.00	70.00
263	MOORE, SIR JONAS	A Mathematical Compendium, or Useful Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, and Astronomy, Geography and Navigation, Embattelling and Quartering of Armies, Fortification and Gunnery, Gauging and Dyalling.	London	1705	USD 60.00 - 90.00	75.00
264	MORGAN, T.	The Mechanical Practice of Physick: in which the Specifick Method is Examin'd and Exploded, and the Bellinian Hypothesis ... consider'd and refuted.	London	1735	USD 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
265	MORRIS, F. O.	A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds.	London	1892	USD 60.00 - 90.00	35.00
266	MUELLER, JOHANN VALENTIN	Ueber Bleykrankheiten und wie dieselben am besten zu vermieten und zu heilen sind.	Frankfurt am Main	1796	USD 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
267	MUELLER, JOHANN VALENTIN	Orthodoxie und Heterodoxie, oder Bemerkungen ueber den Richtigen Gebrauch der Arzneymittel.	Frankfurt am Main	1798-99	USD 40.00 - 60.00	90.00
268	MURPHY, ROBERT CUSHMAN	Oceanic Birds of South America.	New York	1936	USD 70.00 - 100.00	90.00
269	MURSINNA, CHRISTIAN LUDWIG	Abhandlung von den Krankheiten der Schwangern, Gebaerenden und Woechnerinnen.	Berlin	1784-86	USD 35.00 - 50.00	220.00
270		MUSHROOMS. Regents of the University of the State of New York.	Albany	1873	USD 30.00 - 40.00	22.50
271	Heim, Roger; & Wasson, R. Gordon	MUSHROOMS. Les Champignons Hallucinogenes du Mexique.	Paris	1958	USD 100.00 - 150.00	130.00
272	Charles Gould	MYTHICAL MONSTERS	London	1886	USD 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
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	London	1655	USD 300.00 - 400.00	375.00
274		NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS for 1773, published by Order of the Commissioners of Longitude.	London	1771	USD 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
275	NEWTON, SIR ISAAC	Principia, reprinted for Sir William Thomson and Hugh Blackburn.	Glasgow	1871	USD 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
276	NICHOLSON, WILLIAM	The First Principles of Chemistry.	London	1790	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
277	OSBORN, WILLIAM	An Essay on Laborious Parturition, in which the Division of the Symphysis Pubis is particularly considered.	London	1783	USD 60.00 - 90.00	120.00
278	Robert Tomes	PANAMA IN 1855: an Account of the Panama Rail-Road, of the Cities of Panama and Aspinwall, etc.	New York	1855	USD 50.00 - 75.00	50.00
279	PARKINSON, JOHN	Paradisus in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris.	London	1904	USD 100.00 - 150.00	90.00
280		PATENT MEDICINE. Group of 15 yellow labels and 25 eight-page pamphlets for "Oxygenated Bitters.	Windsor	circa 1848	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
281	PENNANT, THOMAS	History of Quadrupeds.	London	1793	USD 100.00 - 150.00	300.00
282	PETTIGREW, T. J.	Medical Portrait Gallery: Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians, Surgeons, etc., etc.	London	nd and 1840	USD 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
283		PHARMACOPOEIA COLLEGII REGII MEDICORUM EDINBURGENSIS.	Edinburgi et Londini	1783	USD 40.00 - 60.00	100.00
284		PHARMACOPOEA CASTRENSIS BORUSSICA.	Regiomonti	1814	USD 30.00 - 40.00	110.00
285		PHARMACOPOEIA. Preussische Pharmacopoe.	Berlin	1813	USD 40.00 - 60.00	110.00
286	von W. Gruner	Hannoversche Pharmacopoe, uebersetzt	Hannover	1819, 1820	USD 50.00 - 75.00	160.00
287		PHARMACOPOEIA OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1820: by the Authority of the Medical Societies and Colleges.	Boston	Dec. 1820	USD 125.00 - 175.00	210.00
288	PIAGET, JEAN	Judgment and Reasoning in the Child, The Language and Thought of the Child.	New York	1928, 1932	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
289	PISIS, H. DE, M.D.	Opus Geomantiae Completum, in Libros Tres Divisum.	Lugduni	1638	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
290	PLENK, sic, JOSEPH JAKOB	Lehre von den Hautkrankheiten nach ihren Klassen, Geschlechtern, und Gattungen.	Wien	1807	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
291	PLUCHE, ABBE	The History of the Heavens, considered according to the Notions of the Poets and Philosophers, compared with the Doctrines of Moses.	London	1740	USD 40.00 - 60.00	90.00
292		PORTLAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.	Portland	April 1881	USD 30.00 - 40.00	22.50
293	PORZIO, SIMONE	De Humana Mente Disputatio.	Florentiae	1551	USD 60.00 - 90.00	160.00
294	PORZIO, SIMONE	De Rerum Naturalium Principiis, Libri Duo.	Neapoli	1561	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
295	PRINGLE, SIR JOHN	Observations on the Diseases of the Army.	London	1761	USD 50.00 - 75.00	85.00
296	Geraud, Mathieu	PUBLIC HEALTH. Essai sur la Suppression des Fosses d'Aisances, et de toute espece de Voiries, sur la maniere de convertir en Combustibles les Substances qu'on y renferme, &c.	Amsterdam	1786	USD 40.00 - 60.00	110.00
297	QUINCY, JOHN	Lexicon Physico-Medicum; or a New Medicinal Dictionary.	London	1730	USD 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
298	RADIMSKY, W; AND FIALA, FR	Die Neolithische Station von Butmir bei Sarajevo in Bosnien.	Wien	1895-98	USD 50.00 - 75.00	15.00
299		RAILROADS. The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines.	London	1850	USD 80.00 - 120.00	260.00
300		RAILROADS. Catalogue of the Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at the World's Columbian Exposition.	Chicago	1893	USD 30.00 - 40.00	100.00

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