Bonhams: History of Science & Technology, 31199, New York

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Auction Date
October 24, 2025 - October 24, 2025
Page Size: 270 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1102 FONTANA, FELICE. 1730-1805.

Traite sur le venin de la vipere, sur les poisons americains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons vegetaux.

Florence: 1781 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 204.80
1103 VICQ D'AZYR, FELIX. 1748-1794.

Traite d'antomie et de physiologie.

Paris 1786 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,680.00
1104 HUNTER, JOHN. 1728-1793.

A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds....

London 1794 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,536.00
1105 BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842.

The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings.

London 1802 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,680.00
1106 MAYO, HERBERT. 1796-1852.

Anatomical and Physiological Commentaries. Numbers I and II.

London 1822-1823. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,792.00
1107 DUDLEY, BENJAMIN WINSLOW. 1785-1870.

Observations on Injuries of the Head. In: Transylvania Journal of Medicine, Vol. I. Lexington, KY: Joseph G. Norwood

1828 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 76.80
1108 HOOPER, ROBERT. 1773-1825.

The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Brain.

London 1828 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,632.00
1109 ARNOLD, FRIEDRICH. 1803-1890.

Der Kopftheil des vegetativen Nervensystems beim Menschen.... Heidelberg and

Leipzig 1831 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 435.20
1110 BAUMGARTNER, KARL HEINRICH.

Physiognomice pathologica -- Krankenphysiognomik.

[Stuttgart: 1839]. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,400.00
1111 AMMON, FRIEDRICH AUGUST. 1799-1861. And MORITZ BAUMGARTEN. 1813-1849.

Die plastische Chirurgie nach ihren bisherigen Leistungen dargestellt. Berlin: Verlag von G. Reimer

1842 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
1112 GUTHRIE, GEORGE JAMES. 1785-1856.

On Injuries of the Head Affecting the Brain.

London 1842 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 768.00
1113 OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.

The Principles and Practice of Medicine. New York: D. Appleton & Company

1892 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,816.00
1114 FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955.

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN.

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,680.00
1115 FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955.

On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with Special Reference to their use in the Isolation of B. Influenzae. Reprinted from: The British Journal of Experimental Pathology 1929, Vol X, p 226.

London: [1944]. USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
1116 ALMEIDA, JUNE D.; DAVID TYRRELL; ET AL.

Coronaviruses. In: Nature, vol 220, p 650. New York: Macmillan

1968. Full volume issue. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,408.00
1117 EUCLID. FL. 300 B.C.

Elementorum Libri XV. Graece & Latine.

Paris 1557 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,840.00
1118 ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E.

Opera post omnes quae in hunc usque diem prodierunt editiones, summo studio emaculata et ad graecum exemplar diligenter recognita.

Lyon 1563 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,816.00
1119 VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND DE. 1641-1715.

Neurographia Universalis.

Lyons: 1685 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,048.00
1120 PATRICIUS, FRANCISCUS. 1529-1597.

Della nuova geometria di Franc. Patrici. Libri XV.

Ferrara: 1587 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,096.00
1121 DELLA PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. C.1538-1615.

De Destillatione Lib. IX. Quibus certa methodo, multipliciq; artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuiusliber mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfecte docetur.

Rome: 1608 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,432.00
1122 RULAND, MARTIN (THE YOUNGER). 1569-1611.

Lexicon alchemiae sive dictionarium alchemisticum.

Frankfurt 1612 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
1123 LIBAVIUS, ANDREAS. 1550-1616.

Syntagmatis selectorum undiquaque et perspicue traditorum Alchymiae Arcanorum, tomus primus....

Frankfurt 1615 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,144.00
1124 BECHER, JOHANN JOACHIM. 1635-1682.

Tripus Hermeticus Fastidicus, Pandens Oracula Chymica, seu I. Laboratorium Portabile cum Methodo vere spagyrice, sc. Juxta exigentium Naturae Laborandi....

Frankfurt 1689 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
1125 BECHER, JOHANN JOACHIM. 1635-1682.

Physica subterraneae.

Leipzig 1738 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
1126 NAPIER, JOHN. 1550-1617.

Rabdologiae seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo.

Leiden 1626 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 704.00
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