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Sotheby’s
New York Book Week
12-26 JuneSotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD -
Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000. -
Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.Swann, June 17: Lot 28: Harold Von Schmidt, "I Asked Jim If He Wanted To Accompany Us To Teach The Hanneseys A Lesson.", oil on canvas, 1957.Swann, June 17: Lot 96: Arthur Szyk, Thumbelina, gouache and pencil, 1945.Swann, June 17: Lot 101: D.R. Sexton, The White Rabbit And Bill The Lizard, watercolor and gouache, 1932.Swann, June 17: Lot 127: Miguel Covarrubias, Bradypus Tridactilus. Three-Toed Sloth, gouache, circa 1953.Swann, June 17: Lot 132: William Pène Du Bois, 2 Illustrations: Balloon Merry Go Round On The Ground And In The Air, pen and ink and wash, 1947.Swann, June 17: Lot 137: Lee Lorenz, Confetti Hourglass, mixed media, 1973.Swann, June 17: Lot 181: Norman Rockwell, Portrait Of Floyd Jerome Patten (Editor At Boy's Life Magazine), charcoal, circa 1915.Swann, June 17: Lot 188: Ludwig Bemelmans, Rue De Buci, Paris, casein, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1955.Swann, June 17: Lot 263: Maurice Sendak, Sundance Childrens Theater Poster Preliminary Sketch, pencil, 1988.
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Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
![Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/4ee20109-25f3-42e8-93ab-bd4c8e17093a.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano],</i> 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5adfdf34-8a9a-47e5-9288-5e65dac5ce79.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> BANDELLO, MATTEO. <i>La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello,</i> 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a1b8605-a566-4fb7-8a4c-5fb72ac539bc.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. <i>Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…,</i> 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.")
Sothebys: AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF MEDICAL BOOKS The Property of The Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh Third and Last Portion M to Z, EDINBURGH,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 27, 1969 - October 27, 1969
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 969 | Renwick (Thomas) | MCAVOY CASE | USD - | 34.00 | ||
| 970 | Marquet (M. F. N.) | Nouvelle methode ... pour connoitre le pouls par les notes de la musique | USD - | 7.00 | ||
| 971 | MASCAGNI (PAULO) | VASORUM LYMPHATICORUM CORPORIS HUMANI HISTORIA ET ICHNOGRAPHIA | Siena | 1787 |
USD - | 204.00 |
| 972 | Mascagni (Paolo) | Prodromo della grande anatomia | Florence | 1819 |
USD - | 84.00 |
| 973 | Matlack (Timothy) | An oration delivered March 16 | Philadelphia | 1780 |
USD - | 12.00 |
| 974 | Meckel (Johann Friedrich) | Ornithorynchi paradoxi descriptio anatomica | Leipzig | 1826 |
USD - | 38.00 |
| 975 | MEDICAL BIOGRAPHY | USD - | 34.00 | |||
| 976 | MEDICAL BOOKS | USD - | 38.00 | |||
| 977 | MEDICAL BOOKS | USD - | 84.00 | |||
| 978 | MEDICAL BOOKS | USD - | 43.00 | |||
| 979 | MEDICAL BOOKS | USD - | 1,008.00 | |||
| 980 | MEDICAL CONGRESSES | USD - | 14.00 | |||
| 981 | Medical Register (The) for the year 1783 | USD - | 17.00 | |||
| 982 | Meek'ren (Jobus a) | Observations medico-chirurgicae ex Belgico in latinum translatae ab A. Blasio | USD - | 72.00 | ||
| 983 | Meibomius (Henricus) | Epistola de longaevis | Helmstedt | 1664 |
USD - | 34.00 |
| 984 | Mesmer (Franz Anton) | Memoire sur ses decouvertes | USD - | 29.00 | ||
| 985 | Moir(H. D.) | Outlines of the ancient history of medicine | 1831-1832 |
USD - | 91.00 | |
| 986 | Monro (Alexander, primus) | The works | Edinburgh | 1781 |
USD - | 58.00 |
| 987 | Monro (Alexander, tertius) | The morbid anatomy of the brain | Edinburgh | 1827 |
USD - | 38.00 |
| 988 | Morison (Alexander) | Outlines of lectures on mental diseases | 1826 |
USD - | 115.00 | |
| 989 | [Nauche (J. L.)] | Des maladies de l'Uterus | USD - | 84.00 | ||
| 990 | Naegele (Carl Franz) | An essay on the mechanism of parturition | 1829 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 991 | Neander (Jean) | Traicte du tabac ou Nicotinae | Lyons | 1625 |
USD - | 101.00 |
| 992 | [Needham (Thomas)] | An account of some new microscopical discoveries founded on an examination of the Calamary | 1745 |
USD - | 53.00 | |
| 993 | Nemnich (Philip Andreas) | Lexicon nosologicum polyglotton omnium morborum symptomatum vitiorumque naturae | Hamburg | 1801 |
USD - | 53.00 |
| 994 | Neri (Antonio) C. Merret and J. Kunckel | Art de la verrerie | Paris | 1752 |
USD - | 101.00 |
| 995 | Newenham (Thomas) | A statistical and historical inquiry into the progress and magnitude of the population of Ireland | USD - | 43.00 | ||
| 996 | Newnham (W.) | An essay on the symptoms | USD - | 156.00 | ||
| 997 | New Sydenham Society | 1860-1911 |
USD - | 384.00 | ||
| 998 | Newton (Sir Isaac) | Opera quae extant omnia | 1779-85 |
USD - | 19.00 | |
| 999 | Newton (Sir Isaac) | Opticks or a treatise of the reflections | 1718 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 1000 | New York | New York | July 1797 |
USD - | 120.00 | |
| 1001 | Nicholl (Whitlock) | Practical remarks on disordered states of the cerebral structures occurring in infants | USD - | 62.00 | ||
| 1002 | Nightingale (Florence) | Notes on hospitals | 1859 |
USD - | 58.00 | |
| 1003 | Nihell (James) | New and extraordinary observations concerning the prediction of various crises by the pulse | 1750 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 1004 | NORTHCOTE (WILLIAM) | THE MARINE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC AND SURGERY | 1770 |
USD - | 168.00 | |
| 1005 | Northcote (William) | The anatomy of the human body | 1772 |
USD - | 48.00 | |
| 1006 | O'Halloran (Sylvester) | A complete treatise on gangrene and sphacelus with a new method of amputation | USD - | 84.00 | ||
| 1007 | Oliver (Sir Thomas) | Dangerous trades | USD - | 58.00 | ||
| 1008 | Orfila (Mathieu J. B.) | Traite des poisons | Paris | 1814 |
USD - | 48.00 |
| 1009 | Orfila (Mathieu J. B.) | Traite des poisons | USD - | 120.00 | ||
| 1010 | Orfila (M. P.) | A general system of toxicology | USD - | 72.00 | ||
| 1011 | Oribasius | Paris | 1555 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 1012 | Oribasius | Leiden | 1735 |
USD - | 62.00 | |
| 1013 | Osborn (William) | An essay on laborious parturition | USD - | 120.00 | ||
| 1014 | Osler (Sir William) | The principles and practice of medicine | Edinburgh | 1892 |
USD - | 24.00 |
| 1015 | Osler (Sir William) | An Alabama student and other biographical essays | USD - | 24.00 | ||
| 1016 | Owen (Sir Richard) | On the anatomy of vertebrates | USD - | 67.00 | ||
| 1017 | Owen (Sir Richard) | A collection of 11 papers | 1838-45 |
USD - | 19.00 | |
| 1018 | Owen (Sir Richard) | Derivative hypothesis of life and species being the concluding chapter of the anatomy of vertebrates | USD - | 24.00 | ||
| 1019 | Ozanam (J. A. F.) | Histoire medicale | USD - | 38.00 | ||
| 1020 | Paaw (Petrus) | Primitiae anatomicae de humani corporis ossibus | USD - | 19.00 | ||
| 1021 | Paget (John) | An inaugural dissertation on the congenital malformations of the heart | Edinburgh | 1831 |
USD - | 62.00 |
| 1022 | Palfin (Jean) | Anatomie chirurgicale ou description exacte des parties du corps humain ed. A. Petit | USD - | 62.00 | ||
| 1023 | Palfin (J.) | Anatomie chirurgicale ou description exacte des parties du corps humain | USD - | 72.00 | ||
| 1024 | Pallucci (Nat. Jos.) | Descriptio novi instrumenti pro cura cataractae | USD - | 68.00 | ||
| 1025 | Arand (Fr.) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 204.00 | ||
| 1026 | Meckel (J. Fr.) | Pamphlets | USD - | 84.00 | ||
| 1027 | Baudelocque (Jean Louis) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 228.00 | ||
| 1028 | Larrey (Baron Dominique) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 204.00 | ||
| 1029 | Rilliet (F.) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 60.00 | ||
| 1030 | Lucas (C.) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 216.00 | ||
| 1031 | Cox (Daniel) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 156.00 | ||
| 1032 | O'Halloran (Mr.) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 228.00 | ||
| 1033 | Hamilton (R.) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 156.00 | ||
| 1034 | Hosack (David) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 115.00 | ||
| 1035 | Kentish (Edward) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 72.00 | ||
| 1036 | Haygarth (John) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 120.00 | ||
| 1037 | Young (Samuel) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 156.00 | ||
| 1038 | Irvine (William) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 180.00 | ||
| 1039 | Swan (Joseph) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 156.00 | ||
| 1040 | Ward (William T.) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 72.00 | ||
| 1041 | PAMPHLETS on the medical profession | USD - | 264.00 | |||
| 1042 | Stone (Thomas) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 264.00 | ||
| 1043 | Thomson (Allen) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 84.00 | ||
| 1044 | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 53.00 | |||
| 1045 | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 408.00 | |||
| 1046 | Cogswell (Charles) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 120.00 | ||
| 1047 | Beck (Thomas Snow) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 48.00 | ||
| 1048 | Marshall (John) | PAMPHLETS (medical, zoological, etc.) | USD - | 62.00 | ||
| 1049 | Brown (Alexander Crum) and Thomas R. Fraser | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 120.00 | ||
| 1050 | Murchison (Charles) | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 62.00 | ||
| 1051 | PAMPHLETS | 1840-1860 |
USD - | 528.00 | ||
| 1052 | PAMPHLETS | 1860 to 1890 |
USD - | 72.00 | ||
| 1053 | PARACELSUS (THEOPHRASTUS BOMBAST AB HOHENHEIM) | Operum medico-chimicorum sive paradoxorum tomus primus (-duodecimus) | Frankfurt | 1603-1605 |
USD - | 204.00 |
| 1054 | Parentus (P. A.) | De dosibus medicamentorum | USD - | 62.00 | ||
| 1055 | Park (H.) and P. F. Moreau | Cases of the excision of carious joints | USD - | 72.00 | ||
| 1056 | PARKINSON (JAMES) | AN ESSAY ON THE SHAKING PALSY | Whittingham and Rowland for Sherwood | 1817 |
USD - | 4,800.00 |
| 1057 | Parkinson (James) | Medical admonitions addressed to families respecting the practice of domestic medicine and the preservation of health | USD - | 67.00 | ||
| 1058 | Parmentier (A. A.) | Recherches sur les vegetaux nourrissans | Paris | 1781 |
USD - | 48.00 |
| 1059 | Parmentier (A. A.) and N. Deyeux | Precis d'experiences et observations sur les differentes especes de lait | USD - | 48.00 | ||
| 1060 | Parry (Caleb Hillier) | An essay on ... the Merino breed of sheep | USD - | 58.00 | ||
| 1061 | Parry (Caleb Hillier) | Cases of tetanus and rabies contagiosa or canine hydrophobia | Bath and London | 1814 |
USD - | 84.00 |
| 1062 | Parry (Caleb Hillier) | Elements of pathology and therapeutics | 1815 |
USD - | 72.00 | |
| 1063 | Parry (Caleb Hillier) | An experimental inquiry into the nature | Bath and London | 1816 |
USD - | 228.00 |
| 1064 | Parry (Charles Henry) | Additional experiments on the arteries of warm-blooded animals | 1819 |
USD - | 108.00 | |
| 1065 | Paterson (D.) | A treatise on the scurvy | USD - | 264.00 | ||
| 1066 | Pavlov (I. P.) | The work of the digestive glands | USD - | 216.00 | ||
| 1067 | [Paytherus (Thomas)] | A comparative statement of facts and observations relative to the cow-pox | 1800 |
USD - | 96.00 | |
| 1068 | Peacock (Thomas B.) | On malformations etc. of the human heart | 1858 |
USD - | 144.00 |
![Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dbc5286a-4210-44e3-bbf0-6031c1c49801.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Euclid. <i>The Elements of Geometrie,</i> first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.")
![Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/655b361c-71c7-48ba-9455-09c14e8c7494.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Shakespeare (William). <i>The Tempest</i> [&] <i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona,</i> from the <i>Second Folio,</i> [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/16cfdea8-0749-44a9-b801-b991dc2eaa21.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. <i>De remediis utriusque fortunæ,</i> [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: GAZA (THÉODORE). [...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum, Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/46e14fa0-19d2-42b7-9994-312d5ae3df4d.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> GAZA (THÉODORE). <i>[...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum,</i> Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: LUTHER (MARTIN). Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri, Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/13d0418d-fffb-4841-9721-851464785bd9.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> LUTHER (MARTIN). <i>Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri,</i> Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.")
