Back

De Baecque and Associes: Scientific and Medical Books

Auction Reports

Auction Name Scientific and Medical Books Total Sales (EUR) 63,500.00
Auction Date May 13, 2022 - May 13, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 28,280.00
Sale Number #120915 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 38,790.00
Total Lots 249
Sold Lots 169 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 35,650.00
% of Lots Sold 67.87% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 49,570.00
Unsold Lots 80 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 128.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
72 [DIDEROT - D'ALEMBERT]

ENCYCLOPEDIA OR REASONED DICTIONARY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND TRADES, by a society of literary men...

 1751-1780. EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 27,500.00
213 RUYSCH (Frédérik)

THESAURUS ANIMALIUM - ANATOMICORUM. Cum figuris Aeneis.

1725-44. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
111 GUYOT (E. G.)

NOUVELLES RECREATIONS PHYSIQUE ET MATHEMATIQUES, containing what has been imagined of more curious in this kind and which is discovered daily.

 an VII-VIII. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 2,375.00
37 BULLART (Isaac)

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS, containing the Lives, & Historical Eulogies of Illustrious Men... With their portraits drawn on originals in the natural, & several funeral inscriptions, exactly collected from their tombs.

1682 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,062.50
118

HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. With the memoirs of Mathematics and Physics for the same year. Taken from the registers of this Academy.

 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,062.50
188 POMET (Pierre)

HISTOIRE GENERALE DES DROGUES SIMPLES ET COMPOSEES.

 1735 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 875.00
180 PERRAULT (C)

MEMOIRS TO SERVE AS A NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS.

 1733-34. EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 775.00
160 MATTHIOLE (P.A)

COMMENTARIES ON THE SIX BOOKS OF THE MEDICINAL MATTER OF DIOSCORIDES.

 1680 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 750.00
104 GRAVESANDE (Willem Jacob's)

ELEMENS OF PHYSICS MATHEMATICALLY DEMONSTRATED, and confirmed by experiments; or introduction to the Newtonian philosophy.

 1746 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 625.00
175

PARACELSE. LA GRAND CHIRURGIE DE PHILIPPE AOREOLE THEOPHRASTE PARACELSE Translated into French by M. Claude Dariot, physician in Beaune Plus a discourse on gout by the said Dariot.

 1603 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 625.00
237 VALLEMONT (Pierre Le Lorrain de)

LA PHYSIQUE OCCULTE or treatise on the divining rod, and its usefulness for the discovery of water sources, mines, hidden treasures, thieves and fugitive murderers.

 1693 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 562.50
117

HERBARY. HERBARY OF THE XIX° containing about 200 plants and flowers classified in an alphabetical directory in-8, half cloth with the handwritten Latin names opposite. Good condition.

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 537.50
116 HEISTER (Laurent)

INSTITUTIONES CHIRURGICAE.

1750 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 512.50
39 CHABERT (Ph)

TREATMENT OF VERMINOUS DISEASES in animals. 194 p. - Treatise on anthrax. 140 p. - Instruction on the existence of glanders. 69 p. - Treatise on scabies and scabs in animals. 56 p. - Instruction on how to drive cows. 15 p.

 1785-86-87. EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 500.00
79

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU. TREATISE ON THE CULTIVATION OF LAND. With figures in intaglio.

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 437.50
28 BRARD (Cyprien-Prosper)

MINERALOGY APPLIED TO THE ARTS, or history of minerals used in agriculture, domestic economy [...] jewelry and jewelry. A work intended for artists, manufacturers and entrepreneurs.

 1821 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 400.00
152 LUCKIUS (Johann Jacob)

SYLLOGE NUMISMATUM ELEGANTIORUM...

1620 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 400.00
186 [PLUCHE (Noël)]

LE SPECTACLE DE LA NATURE ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle, qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les jeunes gens curieux...

 1755-1764. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 400.00
50 [COMBES]

L'ECOLE DU JARDIN POTAGER.

 1749 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 387.50
189 POMET (Pierre)

HISTOIRE GENERALE DES DROGUES SIMPLES ET COMPOSEES.

 1735 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 387.50
1 AGRIPPA (Henri Corneille)

ON THE NOBLESSE AND EXCELLENCE OF THE FEMALE SEX, OF ITS PREEMINENCE OVER THE OTHER SEX...With the Treatise on the Uncertainty as well as the Vanity of the Sciences and the Arts.

 1726 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 375.00
52 CORVISART (J. N.)

ESSAY ON THE ORGANIC DISEASES AND DISEASES OF THE HEART and the large vessels.

 1806 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 375.00
136 LEWIN (Louis)

THE ARTIFICIAL PARADISES. Opium, Morphine, Cocaine, Indian Hemp, Datura, Betel ...

 1928 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 375.00
238 VALLEMONT (Pierre Le Lorrain de)

LA PHYSIQUE OCCULTE or treatise on the divining rod, and its usefulness for the discovery of water sources, mines, hidden treasures, thieves and fugitive murderers.

 1696 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 375.00
192 PORTAL (Antoine)

PRECIS DE CHIRURGIE PRATIQUE, containing the history of surgical diseases, and the most common way of treating them.

 1768 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 350.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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.
  • 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.
Ask Questions