Bonhams: Fine Books & Manuscripts Including Highlights from Jeremy Norman, History of Science and Technology, 31882, New York

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Auction Date
June 24, 2026 - June 24, 2026
Page Size: 260 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
200 Alexander of Tralles

Practica Alexandri yatros grecium expositione glose interlinearis Jacobi de partibus et Januensis in margine posite

Lyon 1504 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,240.00
201 Tacitus Publius Cornelius

P. Cornelii Taciti libri quinque noviter in venti atque cum reliquis eius operibus editi

Milan 1517 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
202 Paul of Aegina

De medica materia libri septem

Venice 1532 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
203 Fuchs Leonart

De historia stirpium

Basel 1542 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,200.00
204 Adamantius; Cocles Bartolommeo della Rocca; George of Trebizond

Physiognomie & chiromantiae compendium

Basel; Strasbourg; Cologne 1544; 1536 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,560.00
205 Geminus Thomas

Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio, aere exarata

London 1545 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,800.00
206 Werner Johann

Canones sicut brevissimi, ita etiam doctissimi, complectentes praecepta & observationes de mutatione aurae

Nuremberg 1546 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
207 Servetus Michael; Calvin John

Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate, contra prodigiousos errores Michaelis Serveti

Geneva 1554 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,840.00
208 Henerus Renatus

Adversus Iacobi Sylvii depulsionum anatomicarum calumnias, pro Andrea Vesalio apologia

Venice 1555 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,376.00
209 Amatus Lusitanus

Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor

Basel 1556 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,328.00
210 Dalechamps Jacques

Chirurgie francoise

Lyons 1569 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,320.00
211 Fabrici 1537-1619

De venarum ostiolis

Padua 1603 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 35,840.00
212 Bacon Francis 1561-1620

Instauratio magna

London 1620 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 24,320.00
213 Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Parititions of Sciences

Oxford 1640 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,840.00
214 Meekeren Job Janszoon van 1611-66

Heel- en geneeskonstige aanmerkingen

Amsterdam 1668 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,560.00
215 Kerckring Theodor 1640-93

Spicilegium anatomicum

Amsterdam 1670 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,608.00
216 Grew Nehemiah 1641-1712

The anatomy of vegetables begun, with a general account of vegetation founded thereon

London 1672 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,352.00
217 Bellini Lorenzo

De urinis et pulsibus de missione sanguinis de febribus de morbis capitis, et pectoris

Bologna 1683 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,840.00
219 Allard Carel 1648-1709

Planisphaerium Terrestre Sive Terrarum Orbis, Planisphaerice Constructi Repraesentatio Quintuplex

Amsterdam [1696] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,920.00
220 Cant Arent

Impetus primi anatomici ex lustratis cadaveribus nati, quos propria consignavit manu

Leiden 1721 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
221 Hales Stephen (1677-1761)

2 Books, including: Vegetable staticks

London 1727; 1733 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
222 Franklin Benjamin (1706-1790)

A letter of Benjamin Franklin, Esq; to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.R.S. concerning an electrical kite

London 1734-1764 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
223 Euler Leonhard (1707-1783)

Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive solutio problematis isoperimetrici latissimo sensu accepti

Lausanne; Geneva 1744 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,632.00
224 Daviel Jacques (1696-1752)

Lettre de M. Daviel, conseiller, chirurgien ordinaire du roi en survivance & par quartier, a M. de Joyeuse

Paris 1748 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
225 Nollet Jean-Antoine (1700-1770)

Autograph manuscript signed

Paris 1750 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.