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
301		RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES: their Progress, Mechanical Construction and Performance, with the Recent Practice in England and America.	Glasgow	1869	USD 70.00 - 100.00	260.00
302	RAYER, PIERRE	Traite des Maladies de la Peau.	Paris	1835	USD 60.00 - 90.00	170.00
303	RELHAN, RICHARD	Flora Cantabrigiensis, exhibens Plantas Agri Cantabrigiensis Indigenas.	Cantabrigiae	1820	USD 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
304	RETZIUS, GUSTAF	Zur Kenntnis der Entwicklung der Koerperformen des Menschen waehrend der Foetalen Lebensstufen.	Stockholm & Jena	1904	USD 50.00 - 75.00	16.00
305	RICHTER, AUGUST GOTTLIEB	Abhandlung von den Bruechen.	Linz	1788	USD 60.00 - 90.00	160.00
306	RICHTER, AUGUST GOTTLIEB	Anfangsgruende der Wundarzneykunst.	Wien	1790-1804	USD 100.00 - 150.00	260.00
307	RIECKE, C. F.	Der Tod durch den Sonnenstich oder Hitzschlag.	Quedlinburg	1855	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
308	RIEMANN, BERNHARD	Ueber die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen.	Goettingen	1867	USD 70.00 - 100.00	35.00
309	RIPA, LUDOVICUS A.	Miscellanea.	Venetiis	1725	USD 70.00 - 100.00	35.00
310	ROKITANSKY, CARL	A Manual of Pathological Anatomy.	Philadelphia	1855	USD 50.00 - 75.00	120.00
311	Bois & Trechslin; Stevens; Harris; Allen; Harvey; Westcott	ROSES.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
312	Hellyer; Park; McFarland; Edland; and two others	ROSES.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
313	John Lowthorp	ROYAL SOCIETY. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of 1700, abridg'd.	London	1722	USD 60.00 - 90.00	27.50
314	RUSH, BENJAMIN	Medical Inquiries and Observations.	Philadelphia	1809	USD 100.00 - 150.00	90.00
315	SACHS, LUDWIG WILHELM	Quecksilber: ein Pharmakologisch-Therapeutischer Versuch, ditto, Das Opium.	Koenigsberg	1834, 1836	USD 50.00 - 75.00	85.00
316	SAGRA, RAMON DE LA	Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba.	Paris	1853	USD 150.00 - 200.00	375.00
317	SCANZONI, FRIEDRICH VON	Lehrbuch der Geburtshilfe.	Wien	1867	USD 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
318	SCHNEIDER, PETER JOSEPH	Ueber die Gifte in Medicinisch-Gerichtlicher und Medicinisch-Polizeylicher Ruecksicht, nebst einer Anleitung zur Generellen und Speciellen Behandlung der Vergifteten.	Tuebingen	1821	USD 60.00 - 90.00	75.00
319	SCHOTT, CHARLES A.	The Transcontinental Triangulation and the American Arc of the Parallel.	Washington	1900	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
320	SCHUBARTH, ERNST LUDWIG	Lehrbuch der Theoretischen Chemie.	Berlin	1824	USD 35.00 - 50.00	25.00
321	SCHULZ VON SCHULZENHEIM, DAVID	Gekroente Preisschrift vom Friesel.	Luebeck und Leipzig	1772	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
322	SCOPOLI, JOHANN ANTON	Deliciae Florae et Faunae Insubricae, seu Novae, aut Minus Cognitae Species Plantarum et Animalium quas in Insubria Austrica.	Ticini	1786-88	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,000.00
323	SEBA, ALBERTUS	Pharmacopoeus Amstelaedamensis.		circa 1731	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
324	SENNERT, DANIEL	Operum, in Quinque Tomos Divisorum.	Lugduni	1666	USD 40.00 - 60.00	130.00
325	SETON THOMPSON, ERNEST	The Trail of the Sandhill Stag, Lives of the Hunted, Animal Heroes.	New York	1899, 1901, 1905	USD 40.00 - 60.00	25.00
326	SHARP, JAMES	Descriptions of some of the Utensils in Husbandry, Rolling Carriages, Cart Rollers, and Divided Rollers for Lands or Gardens, Mills, Weighing Engines, &c. &c, made and sold by James Sharp.	London	1779	USD 100.00 - 150.00	130.00
327	SHAW, SIMEON	Nature Displayed in the Heavens, and on the Earth, according to the latest Observations and Discoveries.	London	1823	USD 200.00 - 300.00	300.00
328	Chalmers & Austin; Tinbergen; Fisher; Cory	SHORE BIRDS., Birds Ashore and Aforeshore, The Herring Gull's World, The Fulmar, How to Know the Shore Birds.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
329	SIGERIST, HENRY E.	Hieronymus Brunschwig and his Work.	New York	1946	USD 50.00 - 75.00	85.00
330	SIMONIN, LOUIS	La Vie Souterraine, ou les Mines et les Mineurs.	Paris	1867	USD 50.00 - 75.00	30.00
331	SINCLAIR, GEORGE	Natural Philosophy improven by New Experiments, touching the Mercurial Weather-Glass, the Hygroscope, Eclipsis, Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter; by New Experiments, touching the Pressure of Fluids, the Diving-Bell, and all the curiosities thereof...	Edinburgh	1683	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
332	SMITH, GODFREY	The Laboratory, or School of Arts ... compiled from German, and other Foreign Authors.	London	1755	USD 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
333	SMITH, JAMES EDWARD	An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany.	London	1807	USD 40.00 - 60.00	15.00
334	STEIN, GEORGE WILHELM	Hebammen-Catechismus zum Gebrauch der Hebammen in der Grafschaft Lippe.	Lemgo	1776	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
335	STRUEMPELL, ADOLF; AND JAKOB, CHRISTFRIED	Neurologische Wandtafeln.	Muenchen	1897	USD 40.00 - 60.00	150.00
336	STUDER, JACOB H.	The Birds of North America.	New York	1888	USD 80.00 - 120.00	150.00
337		SURGEON-GENERAL'S CATALOGUE. Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army.	Washington	1880-1961	USD 400.00 - 600.00	550.00
338	SYLVIUS, FRANCISCO DELEBOE	Opera Medica ... Editio Altera Correctior & Emendatior.	Amstelodami	1680	USD 80.00 - 120.00	170.00
339		TELEGRAPH. Beardslee's Military Telegraph: its Invention, Introduction, and Adoption by the Government of the United States.	New-York	1863	USD 30.00 - 40.00	19.00
340		TELEPHONE INQUIRY. Testimony taken by The Committee ... To Investigate Charges against Certain Public Officers relating to the Pan-Electric Telephone Company.	Washington	1886	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
341	THAYER, EMMA HOMAN	Wild Flowers of the Rocky Mountains.	New York	1889	USD 35.00 - 50.00	65.00
342	THEILE, FRIEDRICH WILHELM	Die Physikalischen Untersuchungsmethoden ... nach Barth et Henri Roger, und H. M. Hughes.	Weimar	1855	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
343	THORNTON, R. J., M.D.	Elements of Botany.	London	1812	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
344	TIEDEMANN, FRIEDRICH	Tabulae Arteriarum Corporis Humani; Abbildungen der Pulsadern des Menschlichen Koerpers.	Carlsruhae	1822	USD 60.00 - 90.00	140.00
345	Dame & Brooks; Twining; Hottes; Emerson & Weed; Leavitt	TREES.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
346	TREW, CHRISTOPH JACOB	Abhandlung von einigen Verschiedenheiten welche an dem Menschen vor und nach seiner Geburt wahrgenommen werden ...	Nuernberg	1770	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
347	Greensill; Merrill; Goodspeed; Bardi	TROPICAL PLANTS., Tropical Gardening, Plant Life of the Pacific World, Plant Hunters in the Andes, The Tropical Gardens of Burle Max	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
348	VANINI, GIULIO CESARE	De Admirandis Naturae Reginae Deaeque Mortalium Arcanis, Libri Quatuor.	Lutetiae	1616	USD 100.00 - 150.00	320.00
349	VASSES, JEAN	De Judiciis Urinarum Tractatus, ex Probatis Collectus Autoribus ...	Venetiis	1549	USD 100.00 - 150.00	155.00
350	VEJDOVSKY, F.	Zum Problem der Vererbungstraeger.	Prag	1911-12	USD 40.00 - 60.00	15.00
351	VERLOT, B.	Les Plantes Alpines: Choix des Plus Belles Especes.	Paris	1873	USD 60.00 - 90.00	25.00
352	VESALIUS, ANDREAS	The Illustrations from the Works of ...	Cleveland	1950	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
353	VIRCHOW AND HIRSCH	Jahresbericht ueber die Leistungen und Fortschritte in der Gesammten Medicin.	Berlin	1872	USD 40.00 - 60.00	14.00
354	Williamson, George	WATT CLUB., Memorials of the Lineage, Early Life, Education, and Development of the Genius of James Watt.		1856	USD 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
355	WELLER, CARL HEINRICH	Die Krankheiten des Menschlichen Auges.	Berlin	1830	USD 40.00 - 60.00	65.00
356	WENDT, JOHANN	Der Huelfe bey Vergiftungen, und bey den verschiedenen Arten des Scheintodes.	Breslau	1825	USD 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
357	WHITE, GILBERT	The Natural History of Seiborne.	London	1851	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
358	Hochbaum; Ripley; Kortright and Shorn; Jaques; Sanford	WILD DUCKS AND GEESE., The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh, A Paddling of Ducks, Dept. of the Interior., Waterfowl Tomorrow, The Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America, The Geese Fly High, The Waterfowl Family.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
359	Homer D. House	WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK	Albany	1923	USD 40.00 - 60.00	22.50
360	Homer D. House	WILD FLOWERS	New York	1934	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
361	Wright; Hibberd; Farrington	WILD FLOWERS.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
362	WILKINS, BISHOP JOHN	An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language.	London	1668	USD 70.00 - 100.00	80.00
363	WITHERS, THOMAS	Bemerkungen ueber die Fehler, die bey dem Gebrauch der Arzneymittel begangen werden.	Leipzig	1776	USD 50.00 - 75.00	85.00
364	YOUMANS, EDWARD L.	Chemical Atlas, or the Chemistry of Familiar Objects.	New York	1855	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
365		ZANTE. Huge German account of the Ionian island, with hundreds of illustrations, maps, etc.	Prag	1904	USD 35.00 - 50.00	30.00

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