Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 23880, London - King Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177 | HARVEY, William (1578-1657) | The Anatomical Exercises ... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood ... |
London | 1673 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 178 | FONTEYN, Nicolaas (fl. 1622-1644) | The Womans Doctour. Or |
London | 1652 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 179 | [BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691)] | 'An Epistolical Discourse of Philaretus to Empericus |
London | 1655 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 180 | WILLIS, Thomas (1621-1675) | Cerebri anatome |
London | 1664 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 181 | POWER, Henry (1623-1668) | Experimental philosophy |
London | 1664 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 182 | LOWER, Richard (1631-1691) | Tractatus de corde. Item De Motu & Colore Sanguinis et Chyli in eum Transitu. |
London | 1669 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 183 | REMMELIN, Johann (1583-1632) | A survey of the microcosme. Or the anatomie of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin |
London | 1675 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
| 184 | COWPER, William (1666-1709) | The anatomy of humane bodies |
Oxford | 1698 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 185 | [NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727)] | Opticks |
London | 1704 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Unknown |
| 186 | [TOFT, Mary (c.1703-1763)] | [The 'Rabbit-Breeder' |
circa 1726-1753, and later transcriptions | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 187 | BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1707-1758) | A Curious Herbal. |
London | 1739-1737 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 188 | GAUTIER D'AGOTY, Jacques-Fabien (1717-1786) | Five anatomical works. |
Paris | 1745-1761 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Unknown |
| 189 | ALBINUS, Bernard Siegfried (1697-1770) | Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. |
Leiden | 1747 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 190 | LAFOSSE, Philippe Etienne (1738-1820) | Cours d'hippiatrique |
Paris | 1772 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
| 191 | JENNER, Edward (1749-1823) | Three first editions on Variolae Vaccinae |
London | 1798-1800 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 192 | Edward Jenner (1749-1823) | Series of 18 autograph letters signed ('E. Jenner' |
London, Berkeley, Cheltenham and n.p. | 23 February 1803 - 25 March 1817 and nd | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | Unknown |
| 193 | THORNTON, Robert John (1768-1837) | New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus ... and the Temple of Flora |
London | 1799-1807-1810 | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | Unknown |
| 194 | PARKINSON, James (1755-1824) | An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. |
London | 1817 | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | Unknown |
| 195 | TYTLER, Robert (1787-1838) | A concise narrative of facts connected with the disease |
Calcutta | 1817 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 196 | BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1858) | Reports of Medical Cases |
London | 1827-1831 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 197 | CARSWELL, Robert (1793-1857) | Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease. |
London | 1838 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 198 | BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818-1890) | 'Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.' In |
Boston | 1846 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 199 | MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819-1868) | Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation. |
Boston, MA | 1847 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 200 | AUVERT, Alexander Ivanovich (d.1865) | Selecta Praxis Medico-Chirurgicae quam Mosquae exercet ... typis et figuris expressa Parisiis moderante Ambr. Tardieu. |
Paris; Moscow | 1851 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 201 | LISTER, Joseph (1827-1912) | A bound volume of twelve pamphlets |
London | 1853-1878 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
