Bonhams: Fine Books & Manuscripts Including Highlights from Jeremy Norman, History of Science and Technology, 31882, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 24, 2026 - June 24, 2026
Page Size: 260 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
227 Gregory John (1724-1773)

Observations on the duties and offices of a physician; and on the method of prosecuting enquiries in philosophy

London 1770 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,680.00
228 Hunter William (1718-1783)

Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata

Birmingham 1774 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,960.00
229 Franklin Benjamin (1706-1790); Lavoisier Antoine (1743-1794); Bailly Jean-Sylvain (1736-1793)

2 Books, including: Rapport des commissaires charges par le Roi, de l'examen du magnetisme animal

Paris 1784 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
230 Fourcroy Antoine Francois De (1755-1809)

Entomolgia Parisiensis

Paris 1785 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,680.00
231 Jeffries John (1744/45-1819)

A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Dr. Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard

London 1786 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,328.00
232 Lagrange Joseph Louis (1736-1813)

Theorie des fonctions analytiques, contenant les principes du calcul differentiel

Paris 1797/98 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
233 Landre-Beauvais Augustin (1772-1840); Cullerier Michel (1758-1827)

4 Books, including: Le cours de M. Landre Beauvais sur la semeiotique en l'an 12

Paris 1803-4; 1805 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,560.00
234 Barton William P. C. (1786-1856)

Vegetable materia medica of the United States; or medical botany

Philadelphia 1817-1819 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,328.00
235 Mascagni Paolo (1752-1815)

Planches anatomiques du corps humain executes d'apres les dimensions naturelles

Paris 1823-1826 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,320.00
236 Navier Claude-Louis Marie Henri (1785-1836)

Memoire sur les lois du mouvement des fluides

Paris 1823; 1827 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,280.00
237 Ampere Andre Marie (1775-1836)

Autograph letter signed to [Samuel Hunter] Christie

Paris 1824 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
238 Berghaus Heinrich (1797-1884)

Physikalischer Atlas oder Sammlung von Karten

Gotha 1838-48 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,072.00
240 Poitevin Alphonse (1819-82)

Archive consisting of 24 autograph signed manuscript notebooks and 2 ledgers

1840-43 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
241 Joule James Prescott (1818-1889)

On the calorific effects of magneto-electricity, and on the mechanical value of heat

London; Edinburgh; Dublin 1843 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,120.00
242 Donne Alfred (1801-1878)

Cours de microscopie complementaire des etudes medicales

Paris 1844-45 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
243 Gavarni Paul (1804-1866)

Etudes de moeurs contemporaines

Paris 1845-48 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,048.00
244 Stilling Benedikt (1810-1879)

Disquisitiones de structura protuberantia annularis sive pontis Varolii

Jena 1846 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
245 Morton William T. G. (1819-1868)

To surgeons and physicians

Boston 1846 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
246 Lempertz Heinrich (1816-1898)

Bilder-Hefte zur Geschichte des Bucherhandels und der mit demselben verwandten Kunste und Gewerbe

Cologne 1853-1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
247 Gosse Philip (1810-1888)

Portrait photograph by Maull & Polyblank of Gosse

London c. 1855-60 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
248 Pasteur Louis (1822-1895)

Autograph Letter Signed

Lille 1856 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
249 Bouisson Etienne Frederic (1813-1884)

Tribut a la chirurgie ou memoires sur divers sujets de cette science

Paris; Montpellier 1858-61 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,864.00
250 Reis Johann Philipp (1834-1874)

Ueber Telephonie durch den galvanischen Strom

Frankfurt am Main 1861 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
251 Derriey Charles (1808-1877)

Specimen-album

Paris 1862 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
252 Pasteur Louis 1822-95

Autograph draft of a letter to Frederic Cazalis

Paris 1866 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.