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

Auction Details

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
202 SNOW, John (1813-1858)

On the Mode of Communication of Cholera... Second edition.

London 1855 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 19,050.00
203 DIAMOND, Dr Hugh Welch (1808--1886)

Twenty-two photographs of psychiatric patients at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum

1850s GBP 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 Not Sold
204 VON HEBRA, Ferdinand (1816-1880), Felix VON BARENSPRUNG (1822-1864), Anton ELFINGER (1821-1864, artist) and Carl HEITZMANN (1836-1896, artist)

Atlas der Hautkrankheiten.

Vienna 1856-1858-1859-1864-1866-1869-1872-1876 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 16,510.00
205 GRAY, Henry (1825-1861)

Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical.

London 1858 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 13,970.00
206 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (1818-1865)

Die Aetiologie

Pest, Vienna and Leipzig 1861 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 38,100.00
207 SQUIRE, Alexander Balmanno (1836-1908)

Photographs (Colored from Life) of the Diseases of the Skin- Second Series.

London 1865-1866 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,985.00
208 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910)

Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions. Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses.

London 1871 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,795.00
209 PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895)

Discours prononce dans la seance publique tenue par l'Academie francaise ... le 27 avril 1882.

Paris 1882 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,096.00
210 PEDLEY, Thomas Franklin (1850-1922)

'Midwifery among the Burmese.' Offprint from

London 1887 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 19,050.00
211 RANADIVE, D.J. (artist) -- HATCH, Lt.-Col. William Keith F.R.C.S, I.M.S. (1854-1935)

56 large original watercolours of patients with various diseases. Mumbai

1897-1901 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 60,960.00
212 FROST, William Adams (1853-1935)

The original drawings for the work entitled 'The Fundus Oculi with an Ophthalmoscopic Atlas'.

1896 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 12,700.00
213 FOX, Howard (1873-1954)

Fifteen photographs illustrating diseases of the skin

New York circa 1930s GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
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