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Title: Sotheby's The Medical Library of Dr. Meyer Friedman  

Auction held in: New York

Sale Date:  11/16/01

No. of Lots: 176

No. of Pages: 194

Condition:  Very Good

 A FEW EXAMPLES: CHARLES DARWIN "ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION" 1859 ($25,000-35,000); ALEXANDER FLEMING "ON THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTION OF CULTURES OF PENICILLIUM" ($12,000-18,000); SIGMUND FREUD "FIRST EDITION OF THE INTERPERETATION OF DREAMS" ($4,000-6,000); Addison, Thomas On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-Renal Capsules. London: Samuel Highley, 1855; Anichkov, Nikolai Uber experimentelle Cholosterinsteatose und ihre Bedeutung fur die Entstehung einiger pathologischer Prozesse. Offprint from the Centralblatt fur Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1913 -- Centralblatt fur Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie. Volume XXIV. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1913; (Antiquarian Medicine) A group of 59 publications in 68 volumes on a variety of medical topics. Various places: mostly 19th century and earlier. Various formats, the majority being books in octavo and a few in quarto, also several offprints and journal articles; Banting, Frederick Grant, Charles H. Best, and John J. R. Macleod (et al.) 'The Internal Secretion of the Pancreas' (offprint from The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 5). St. Louis, 1922. Self-wrappers. First edition, offprint issue (Grolier/Medicine 95a; cf. Garrison-Morton 3967 & Heirs of Hippocrates 2333, journal issue) - The Internal Secretion of the Pancreas ... (Read before the Academy of Medicine, February 7th, 1922). Bifolium. [Toronto: privately printed, 1922]. First printing (Grolier/Medicine 95b) - 'Pancreatic Extracts in the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus' (offprint from The Canadian Medical Association Journal, March 1922). [Ottawa], 1922. First edition, offprint issue (cf. Garrison-Morton 3968, journal issue) - 'The Effect Produced on Diabetes by Extracts of Pancreas' (offprint from Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, 1922). Self-wrappers. [no place], 1922. First edition, offprint issue...:Beaumont, William Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. Plattsburgh: F. P. Allen, 1833; Bell, Charles A Series of Engravings explaining the Course of the Nerves. London: T. N. Longman & O. Rees and T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1803; Bernard, Claude A group of 32 works consisting of 12 offprints and extracts of articles; 20 books in 23 volumes (8 being chiefly his lectures at the College de France published during his lifetime; one collaborative work with Charles Huette; 9 posthumous publications including several nonscientific works...; Bigelow, Henry Jacob 'Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation,' in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 35, No. 16 (18 November 1846), pp. 309-317, issued as Part 187 of the 'Monthly Series.' Boston: Printed and Published by David Clapp, 1 December 1846; Bouillaud, Jean Baptiste Traite clinique des maladies du coeur, precede de recherches nouvelles sur l'anatomie et la physiologie de cet organe. Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1835 -- Traite clinique de rhumatisme articulaire, et de la loi de coincidence des inflammations du coeur avec cette maladie. Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1840; Boyle, Robert The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. London: Printed by J. Caldwell for J. Crooke, 1661; Bright, Richard Reports of Medical Cases, selected with a view of illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a reference to Morbid Anatomy. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827-1831; Browne, Thomas Religio Medici. London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1642; Cannon, Walter Bradford Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage. An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement. New York and London: D. Appleton, 1915; Cardiology) Richard Lower and Edmund King. 'An Account of the Experiment of Transfusion, practised upon a Man in London,' in Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 2, No. 30 (9 December 1667), pp. 557-564. London, 1667; Cesalpino, Andrea Peripateticarum quaestionum libri quinque. Venice: Giunta, 1571; Chain, Ernst Boris, and Howard W. Florey (et al) 'Penicillin as a Chemotherapeutic Agent' (offprint from The Lancet, 24 August 1940); Copernicus, Nicolaus
De revolutionibus orbis coelestium. Nuremberg: Joannes Petreius, 1543; Corner, George W., and Willard M. Allen Physiology of the Corpus Luteum I. The Effect of Very Early Ablation of the Corpus Luteum upon Embryos and Uterus' (offprint from The American Journal of Physiology, Vol. 86, No. 1, August 1928); Cruikshank, William The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. London: G. Nicol, 1786; Curie, Marie Sklodowska Theses presentees a la Faculte des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur es sciences physiques ... 1re these. Recherches sur les substances radioactives. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1903; De Vries, Hugo
Species and Varieties. Their Origin by Mutation. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1905 -- The Mutation Theory. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co, 1909-10; Einstein, Albert Zur Elektrodynamik bevegter Korper, offprint from Annalen der Physik, series 4, vol. 17, pages 891-919. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905; Fleming, Alexander On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with Special Reference to their use in the Isolation of B. Influenzae; Fracastoro, Girolamo De sympathia antipathia rerum liber unus. De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione libri III. Venice: heirs of L. A. Junta, 1546, mense aprili; Frisch, Otto Robert Physical Evidence for the Division of Heavy Nuclei under Neuron Bombardment, offprint from Nature, Vol. 143, pages 276-277 [caption title]. London, February 1939; Gibbs, Josiah Willard On the Equilibrium of Heterogenous Substances, in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; Holmes, Oliver Wendell On the Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever,' in The New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; Hunter, John A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds; Jenner, Edward An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae. London: Vesalius, Andreas De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome. Basel: (Joannes Oporinus), 1543; Pasteur, Louis A group of 6 works in 7 volumes regarding Pasteur's research on fermentation, silk worms, and vaccination against viral diseases; Parkinson, James An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817; Newton, Isaac Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London: J. Streater, 1687; Kolff, Willem J. (et al.) Collection of ten articles in seven offprints from scholarly journals, consisting of: 'Further Development of a Coil Kidney,' from The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine; Hunter, John The Natural History of the Human Teeth: explaining their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth, and Diseases. London: J. Johnson, 1771 And Much More.
 

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