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
177 HARVEY, William (1578-1657)

The Anatomical Exercises ... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood ...

London 1673 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,160.00
178 FONTEYN, Nicolaas (fl. 1622-1644)

The Womans Doctour. Or

London 1652 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 11,430.00
179 [BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691)]

'An Epistolical Discourse of Philaretus to Empericus

London 1655 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,080.00
180 WILLIS, Thomas (1621-1675)

Cerebri anatome

London 1664 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,096.00
181 POWER, Henry (1623-1668)

Experimental philosophy

London 1664 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 889.00
182 LOWER, Richard (1631-1691)

Tractatus de corde. Item De Motu & Colore Sanguinis et Chyli in eum Transitu.

London 1669 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
183 REMMELIN, Johann (1583-1632)

A survey of the microcosme. Or the anatomie of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin

London 1675 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 24,130.00
184 COWPER, William (1666-1709)

The anatomy of humane bodies

Oxford 1698 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,160.00
185 [NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727)]

Opticks

London 1704 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 40,640.00
186 [TOFT, Mary (c.1703-1763)]

[The 'Rabbit-Breeder'

circa 1726-1753, and later transcriptions GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,795.00
187 BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1707-1758)

A Curious Herbal.

London 1739-1737 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 12,700.00
188 GAUTIER D'AGOTY, Jacques-Fabien (1717-1786)

Five anatomical works.

Paris 1745-1761 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
189 ALBINUS, Bernard Siegfried (1697-1770)

Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.

Leiden 1747 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 8,890.00
190 LAFOSSE, Philippe Etienne (1738-1820)

Cours d'hippiatrique

Paris 1772 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
191 JENNER, Edward (1749-1823)

Three first editions on Variolae Vaccinae

London 1798-1800 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 19,050.00
192 Edward Jenner (1749-1823)

Series of 18 autograph letters signed ('E. Jenner'

London, Berkeley, Cheltenham and n.p. 23 February 1803 - 25 March 1817 and nd GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 165,100.00
193 THORNTON, Robert John (1768-1837)

New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus ... and the Temple of Flora

London 1799-1807-1810 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 40,640.00
194 PARKINSON, James (1755-1824)

An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.

London 1817 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 101,600.00
195 TYTLER, Robert (1787-1838)

A concise narrative of facts connected with the disease

Calcutta 1817 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 38,100.00
196 BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1858)

Reports of Medical Cases

London 1827-1831 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
197 CARSWELL, Robert (1793-1857)

Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease.

London 1838 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,080.00
198 BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818-1890)

'Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.' In

Boston 1846 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 16,510.00
199 MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819-1868)

Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation.

Boston, MA 1847 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 13,970.00
200 AUVERT, Alexander Ivanovich (d.1865)

Selecta Praxis Medico-Chirurgicae quam Mosquae exercet ... typis et figuris expressa Parisiis moderante Ambr. Tardieu.

Paris; Moscow 1851 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 17,780.00
201 LISTER, Joseph (1827-1912)

A bound volume of twelve pamphlets

London 1853-1878 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
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