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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202 | SNOW, John (1813-1858) | On the Mode of Communication of Cholera... Second edition. |
London | 1855 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
| 203 | DIAMOND, Dr Hugh Welch (1808--1886) | Twenty-two photographs of psychiatric patients at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum |
1850s | GBP 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 204 | VON HEBRA, Ferdinand (1816-1880), Felix VON BARENSPRUNG (1822-1864), Anton ELFINGER (1821-1864, artist) and Carl HEITZMANN (1836-1896, artist) | Atlas der Hautkrankheiten. |
Vienna | 1856-1858-1859-1864-1866-1869-1872-1876 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 205 | GRAY, Henry (1825-1861) | Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical. |
London | 1858 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 206 | SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (1818-1865) | Die Aetiologie |
Pest, Vienna and Leipzig | 1861 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 207 | SQUIRE, Alexander Balmanno (1836-1908) | Photographs (Colored from Life) of the Diseases of the Skin- Second Series. |
London | 1865-1866 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 208 | NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910) | Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions. Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses. |
London | 1871 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 209 | PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895) | Discours prononce dans la seance publique tenue par l'Academie francaise ... le 27 avril 1882. |
Paris | 1882 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 210 | PEDLEY, Thomas Franklin (1850-1922) | 'Midwifery among the Burmese.' Offprint from |
London | 1887 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 211 | RANADIVE, D.J. (artist) -- HATCH, Lt.-Col. William Keith F.R.C.S, I.M.S. (1854-1935) | 56 large original watercolours of patients with various diseases. Mumbai |
1897-1901 | GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 212 | FROST, William Adams (1853-1935) | The original drawings for the work entitled 'The Fundus Oculi with an Ophthalmoscopic Atlas'. |
1896 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 213 | FOX, Howard (1873-1954) | Fifteen photographs illustrating diseases of the skin |
New York | circa 1930s | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | 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.")
