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Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 296 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Reid (John)

Essays on Insanity, Hypochondriasis, and other Nervous Affections

1816 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
177 Keill (John)

Introductio ad veram Astronomiam

Oxford, 1718 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
178 Babbage (Charles)

An Examination of Some Questions connected with Games of Chance

1823 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
179 Robertson (John)

A General Treatise of Mensuration... composed for the Benefit of Artificiers, Builders, Measurers, Surveyors, Guagers, Farmers, Gentlemen, Young Students etc.

1748 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 254.00
180 Saunderson (Nicholas)

The Elements of Algebra

Cambridge, 1740 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 457.20
181 Taylor (John)

Thesaurarium Mathematicae, or the Treasury of the Mathematicks

1687 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
182 Mayow (John)

Tractatus quinque medico-physici

Oxford, 1674 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
183 Abernethy (John)

Surgical Observations on Diseases Resembling Syphilis; and on Diseases of the Urethra

1810 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
184 Foes (Anuce)

Oeconomia Hippocratis

Frankfurt am Main 1588. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
185 Higginbottom (John)

An Essay on the Application of Lunar Caustic, in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers

1826 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
186 Le Clerc (Daniel)

& Jean Jacques Manget. Bibliotheca Anatomica

Geneva, 1685. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
187 Lister (Baron Joseph)

Remarks on a Case of Compound Dislocation of an Ankle with other injuries; illustrating the Antiseptic System of Treatment

Edinburgh 1870 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
188 Macculloch (John)

Malaria: An Essay on the Production and Propagation of this Poison

1827 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
189 Rumsey (Henry Wyldbore)

Essays on State Medicine

1856 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
190 Sharp (Samuel)

A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, with a Description and Representation of the Instruments Used in Performing them...

1739. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 508.00
191 Mead (Richard)

De Variolis et Morbillis Liber

1747 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
192

Gerbrandus Schaghen

1663 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
193 Kidd (John)

Outlines of Mineralogy

Oxford 1809 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 584.20
194 Mercurio (Girolamo)

La commare o raccoglitrice...

Verona, 1652 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 558.80
195 Dewar (James)

and John Ambrose Fleming. Collection of 12 offprints

1892-1904. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
196 Meitner (Lise)

and Otto Robert Frisch. On the Products of the Fission of Uranium and Thorium under Neutron Bombardment

Copenhagen 1939 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
197 Fermi (Enrico)

Possible Production of Elements of Atomic Number Higher than 92

1933 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
198 Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh John William) and R.J. Strutt, fourth Baron Rayleigh.

Collection of 25 offprints and journal papers by 3rd and 4th Baron Rayleigh Stutt

v.s. 1878-1942. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
199 Thomson (Sir Joseph John)

Collection of 8 offprints from Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain by Joseph John Thomson on physics and chemistry

1893-1914. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
200 Beddoes (Thomas)

A Letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D. on a new method of treating pulmonary consumption

Bristol, [1793]. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.