Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 23880, London - King Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 212 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
127 PINTOR, Petrus (1423-1503)

Aggregator sententiarum de pestilentia.

Rome 20 February 1499 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 17,780.00
128 BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus, (c.1450-c.1512)

Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus.

Strassburg 8 May 1500 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 35,560.00
129 VALLA, Giorgio (1447-1500)

De expetendis et fugiendis rebus opus.

Venice December 1501 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 25,400.00
130 ZERBIS, Gabriele de (1445--1505), and others

A sammelband of nine rare medical and scientific works

Italy early 16th-century GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 17,780.00
131 HORTUS SANITATIS

Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus.

Venice 1511 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,430.00
132 ROSSLIN, Eucharius (1470-1526)

Der swangern Frawen und Hebammen Roszgarten.

Hagenau circa 1515 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 19,050.00
133 KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-1470)

Fasciculus medicine.

Venice 1513 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 33,020.00
134 BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus (c.1450-c.1512)

Das Buch zu Destilliren die zusamen gethonen Ding.

Strasburg 1519 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,350.00
135 [GALENUS, Claudius (129-c. 216)]

Methodus medendi

Paris 1519 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,080.00
136 BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460-1530)

Isagogae breves perlucide ac uberrimae in anatomiam humani corporis.

Bologna 15 July 1523 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 15,240.00
137 HALY ABBAS ('Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, d.994)

Liber totius medicine necessaria...

Lyon 1523 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 21,590.00
138 HIPPOCRATES (c.460--c.370 B.C.)

[Opera Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis

Rome 1525 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,160.00
139 PAULUS AEGINETA (c.625-c.690).

Medici optimi

Venice August, 1528 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 17,780.00
140 BRUNFELS, Otto (c. 1489-1534)

Herbarum vivae eiconebsic ad naturae imitationem... -- Novi Herbarii tomus II. -- Tomus herbaria III.

Strasbourg 1530-1532-1536 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 76,200.00
141 EDWARDES [or EDGUARD], David (c.1502-c.1542)

De indiciis et praecognitionibus.

London 1532 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 2,540.00
142 AETIUS AMIDENUS (fl. mid-5th - mid-6th century)

Librorum medicinalium tomus primusall

Venice September, 1534 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,096.00
143 FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)

Apologia.

Hagenau 1534 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,064.00
144 FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)

New Kreuterbuch.

Basel 1543 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 44,450.00
145 VIGO, Joannes de (fl. 1500)

The most excellent workes of chirurgerye

London 1543 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
146 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64)

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

Basel June 1543 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 50,800.00
147 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64)

Epistola rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti

Basel October 1546 GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 GBP 27,940.00
148 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564)

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

Basel August 1555 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 82,550.00
149 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64)

De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome.

Paris 1560 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 12,065.00
150 RAZI, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya (c.854-925)

Ob usum experientiamque multiplicem

Basel March 1544 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 139,700.00
151 ESTIENNE, Charles (1504-c.1564)

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres

Paris 1545 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
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