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
152 BOCK, Hieronymus (1489?-1554)

Kreuterbuch

Strasbourg 1 April 1546 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 60,960.00
153 BOORDE, Andrew (?1490-1549)

[The breuiary of helthe

London 15 July 1547 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
154 GEMINUS, Thomas (1510-1562)

Compendiosa totius anatomic delincatio

London 1553 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,985.00
155 AVICENNA (980-1037)

Liber canonis

Venice 1555-1557 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 33,020.00
156 COLOMBO, Matteo Realdo (1494-1559)

De re anatomica libri XV.

Venice 1559 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 21,590.00
157 GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565)

A new booke of destillatyon of waters

London 1565) GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,445.00
158 GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565)

De omni rerum fossilium genere

Zurich 1565 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 20,320.00
159 GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565)

The newe Iewell of Health

London 1576 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 12,065.00
160 [HERBAL]

The greate Herball

London 1561 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
161 BANISTER, John (1540-1610)

The historie of man

London 1578 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
162 BRIGHT, Timothie (1550-1615)

Hygieina

London 1582-1583 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 3,048.00
163 BRIGHT, Timothie (1550-1615)

A treatise of melancholy.

London 1586 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 7,620.00
164 BARTISCH, Georg (1537-1606)

Ophthalmodouleiain Greek das ist

Dresden 1583 GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 GBP 22,860.00
165 GUILLEMEAU, Jacques (1550-1613)

Traite des maladies de l'oeil.

Paris 1585 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
166 GUILLEMEAU, Jacques (1550-1613)

A worthy treatise of the eyes. Translated by Anthony Hunton (d.1624).

London circa 1587 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 15,240.00
167 GUILLEMEAU, Jacques (1550-1613)

Child-birth or

London 1612 Not Available GBP 12,700.00
168 READ, John (fl. 1587-1588, editor) -- ARCEO, Francisco (1494-1575)

A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head

London 1588 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 14,605.00
169 MONARDES, Nicolas (c.1512-1588)

Joyfull Newes Out of the New-found Worlde. Translated by John Frampton.

London 1596 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,985.00
170 LOWE, Peter (c.1550-1610)

The whole course of chirurgerie

London 1597 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 17,780.00
171 TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare (1545-1599)

De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem.

Venice 1597 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,715.00
172 CASSERIO, Giulio Cesare (c. 1552-1616)

Pentaestheseion

Venice 1609 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 20,320.00
173 SPACKMAN, Thomas (fl. early 17th century)

A declaration of such greivous accidents as commonly follow the biting of mad Dogges

London 1613 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,350.00
174 WOODALL, John (?1556-1643)

The surgions mate

London 1617 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,080.00
175 ASELLI, Gaspare (1581-1625)

De lactibus sive lacteis venis.

Milan 1627 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,985.00
176 HARVEY, William (1578-1657)

Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus.

Frankfurt 1628 GBP 800,000.00 - 1,200,000.00 GBP 1,016,000.00
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