Swann Galleries – EARLY PRINTED, MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC BOOKS

October 17th, 2011 by

Highlights of this sale include one of 4 known copies of the 1555 Salamanca Biblia Sacra, a suppressed edition of the Vulgate; Cristóbal de Morales, Missarum liber primus, Lyon, 1546; Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo, Supplementum chronicarum, Venice, 1490; a 1917 Autograph Letter Signed from Sir William Osler, thanking the addressee for condolences on the death of Osler’s son in the First World War; and Benjamin Franklin and William Heberden’s Some Account of the Success of Inoculation for the Small-Pox in England and America, London, 1759.