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Bonhams: Highlights from the Medical Library of the late James Tait Goodrich, Part II - bidstart 2/16

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Auction Name Highlights from the Medical Library of the late James Tait Goodrich, Part II - bidstart 2/16 Total Sales (USD) 458,955.00
Auction Date February 24, 2021 - February 24, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 172,900.00
Sale Number #26730 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 259,500.00
Total Lots 215
Sold Lots 200 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 191,400.00
% of Lots Sold 93.02% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 286,300.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 160.31%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
219 CUSHING, HARVEY.

Original Photograph annotated by Harvey Cushing, a 5 x 8 inch gelatin silver print depicting Cushing at the emergency entrance to New Haven Hospital, annotated in Cushing's hand "unmistakably an emergency," c.

1937 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 20,312.00
189 OSLER AND CUSHING SIGNED PORTRAITS.

Two signed photograph portraits each a 4 x 6 inch gelatin silver print, framed together (21 x 16 inches) and matted:

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 19,062.00
184 CUSHING, HARVEY.

Autograph Letter Signed ("Harvey Cushing") to Dr. [William H.] Howell, requesting a leave of absence "for a year of work abroad,"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 16,562.00
108 RIDLEY, HUMPHREY.

The Anatomy of the Brain.

1695 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,200.00
220 CUSHING, HARVEY.

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

1938 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,200.00
221 CUSHING, HARVEY.

Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C.") to Lucien Price presenting a copy of Meningiomas and reminiscing,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 10,200.00
201 [CUSHING, HARVEY. ]

A Journal of the Harvard Medical School Unit to the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris, Spring of 1915.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 9,562.00
30 BURTON, ROBERT.

The Anatomy of Melancholy.

1624 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,925.00
213 CUSHING, HARVEY.

Typed letter, a draft heavily corrected and revised in Cushing's autograph, to Joseph S. Ames ("Dear Joe") explaining his declining of an offer from Hopkins,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,287.00
224 OSLER, WILLIAM.

A large collection (approximately 217) of offprints, extracts and journals from Sir William Osler, including approximately 155 offprints and separate issues, 30 journals, and 32 extracts, primarily:

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,287.00
48 FABRICIUS VON HILDEN, WILHELM.

Opera quae extant omnia, partim ante hac excusa, partim nunc recens in lucem edita.

1646 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 7,650.00
185 JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL

Album containing 60 photographs, mounted 1 per page on black paper, gelatin silver prints, each roughly 98 x 75 mm, 1903-1904, of the original staff in the early years of Johns Hopkins Hospital,

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,012.00
132 VESALIUS, ANDREAS.

De humani corporis fabrica, Lib. I [and] Lib. II.

1552 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,375.00
168 MORGAN, JOHN.

Autograph Letter Signed ("John Morgan") to "the Committee of the Medical Society of New Haven" on the exchange of books and papers "through this, yet new world, this rising country,"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,120.00
46

A group of 9 works,

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,355.00
138 VIEUSSENS, RAYMOND DE.

Neurographia universalis.

1716 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 5,355.00
8 BELL, CHARLES.

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

1802 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,100.00
27 BROWNE, THOMAS.

Religio Medici. Group of 10 editions,

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,100.00
65 HARVEY, WILLIAM.

The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey ... concerning the motion of the heart and blood.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,100.00
111 RIVILLA BONET Y PUEYO, JOSE DE.

Desvios de la naturaleza: o Tratado de el origen de los monstrous....

1695 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,100.00
173 OSLER, WILLIAM.

Two early pamphlets inscribed to "W.A.J." presumably William Arthur Johnson, Osler's first influential teacher, including:

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,100.00
106 RAMSAY, ALEXANDER.

Anatomy of the Heart, Cranium and Brain....

1813 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,845.00
140 VIRCHOW, RUDOLF.

Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begrendung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre.

1858 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,845.00
205 OSLER, WILLIAM.

Typed Letter Signed ("Wm Osler") to [Howard A.] Kelly, referencing the big four at Johns Hopkins,

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,845.00
207 CUSHING, HARVEY.

The Life of Sir William Osler.

1925 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,845.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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