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Bonhams: Highlights from the Medical Library of Jan Muhlbauer

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Auction Name Highlights from the Medical Library of Jan Muhlbauer Total Sales (USD) 622,131.20
Auction Date June 25, 2025 - June 25, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 318,800.00
Sale Number #31643 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 479,200.00
Total Lots 229
Sold Lots 205 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 403,400.00
% of Lots Sold 89.52% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 607,100.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 102.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
150 RAYER, PIERRE-FRANCOIS-OLIVE. 1793-1867.

A collection of autograph manuscripts, letters and watercolor drawings on dermatological-pathological subjects, including case histories, working materials and drafts of articles, and correspondence,

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 40,960.00
174 AUVERT, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH. D 1865.

Selecta Praxis Medico-Chirurgicae quam Mosquae exercat.

1848-1851. USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 28,160.00
89 LIND, JAMES. 1716-1794.

A Treatise of the Scurvy.

1753 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,600.00
183 NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE. 1820-1910.

Notes On Nursing, What It Is, And What It Is Not.

1860 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 24,320.00
178 VON HEBRA, FERDINAND. 1816-1880. And FELIX VON BARENSPRUNG. 1822-1864.

Atlas der Hautkrankheiten.

1856-1876]. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 21,760.00
81 DOUGLASS, WILLIAM. 1691-1752.

Inoculation of the Small Pox as practised in Boston.

1722 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,480.00
205 OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.

Two Typed Letters Signed ("Wm Osler") 1 to Dr. Neale on a case of Syringomyelis in a man called Harmsworth,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 19,200.00
152 BRIGHT, RICHARD. 1789-1858.

Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy.

1827-1831. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,360.00
3 BENIVIENI, ANTONIO. 1443-1502.

De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis.

1507 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 14,080.00
146 FAWDINGTON, THOMAS.

A Case of Melanosis, with General Observations on the Pathology of this Interesting Disease.

1826 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 14,080.00
122 JENNER, EDWARD. 1749-1823.

Printed circular letter signed ("Edw Jenner"), "Presuming that you are conversant with the practice of vaccine inoculation...," soliciting physicians experience with the practice, and reasserting his view of the essential elements for successful vaccinati

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,800.00
27 PARE, AMBROISE. c.1510-1590.

Les oeuvres...avec les figures & portraicts tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres.

1575 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,520.00
159 HODGKIN, THOMAS. 1798-1866.

On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen. [In:] Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, volume 17, pp 68-114.

1832 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,880.00
71 RAMAZZINI, BERNARDINO. 1633-1714.

De morbis artificum diatriba.

1700 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,600.00
84 VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564.

Opera omnia. Anatomica & chirurgica.

1725 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,600.00
127 ALIBERT, JEAN-LOUIS. 1768-1837.

Description des maladies de la peau observees a l'Hopital Saint-Louis....

1806[-1814]. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,320.00
60 BIDLOO, GOVARD 1649-1713.

Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis.

1685 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,680.00
148 RAYER, PIERRE-FRANCOIS-OLIVE. 1793-1867.

Traite des Maladies des Reins.

1837-1841. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,680.00
151 PRETRE, JEAN GABRIEL. 1768-1849. RAYER, PIERRE-FRANCOIS OLIVE. 1793-1867.

Original watercolor, "Maladie des follicles sebaces (enduit cermineux, ayant la couleur de la ivre jaune)," of a young woman suffering from sebaceous glands on her forehead and cheeks, annotated and titled in holograph by Rayer,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 7,680.00
193 BOURGERY, JEAN-BAPTISTE MARC. 1797-1849.

Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme...anatomie descriptive et physiologie.

1866-1867. USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,680.00
177 ADDISON, THOMAS. 1793-1860.

On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-Renal Capsules.

1855 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,040.00
168 CARSWELL, ROBERT. 1793-1857.

Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Disease.

1838 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,888.00
22 PARACELSUS, PHILIPPUS, THEOPHRASTUS BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM. 1493-1541.

Chirurgia minor quam alias Bertheoneam intitulavit.

[1569-1570]. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,376.00
203 OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.

[Collected papers].

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,376.00
228

A group of works on diseases of the skin.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,376.00
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