The Medical & Scientific Library of W. Bruce Fye New York I March 11, 2019 The Medical & Scientific Library of W. Bruce Fye New York | Monday March 11, 2019, at 10am and 2pm BONHAMS LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS INQUIRIES CLIENT SERVICES 580 Madison Avenue AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE New York Monday – Friday 9am-5pm New York, New York 10022 Please email bids.us@bonhams. Ian Ehling +1 (212) 644 9001 www.bonhams.com com with “Live bidding” in Director +1 (212) 644 9009 fax the subject line 48 hrs before +1 (212) 644 9094 PREVIEW the auction to register for this [email protected] ILLUSTRATIONS Thursday, March 7, service. 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New bidders must also Rachel Zimmerman, provide proof of identity and Administrator address when submitting bids. +1 (323) 436 5506 [email protected] Please contact Client Services with any bidding inquiries. San Francisco Adam Stackhouse, Senior Specialist +1 (415) 503 3266 [email protected] Bonhams © 2019 Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. All rights reserved. Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 Principal Auctioneer: Matthew Girling, NYC License No. 1236798-DCA W. Bruce Fye: Physician, Historian, and Bibliophile Of the many friends I have made over the past five As a book collector since the 1960s Bruce acquired a decades in the book trade Bruce Fye stands out for remarkable number of medical classics and reference the passion of his collecting and the quality of his works, about 15,000 of which he has donated to the scholarship. Paralleling a distinguished medical career Mayo Clinic. Through this auction he has chosen to that began at Johns Hopkins and ended when he return some of the treasures of his personal library to retired recently from the Mayo Clinic, Bruce wrote the market place so that other collectors can enjoy the more than 100 historical and biographical articles pleasure of their ownership. Because Bruce collected and three books: The Development of American with a passion informed by a deep knowledge of history, Physiology: Scientific Medicine in the 19th Century and a willingness to explore the history of medicine in its (1987), American Cardiology: The History of a widest sense, you will find in this sale an extraordinary Specialty and Its College (1996), and Caring for the variety of famous and not so famous rarities, remarkable Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization autograph letters, artistic medical photography, (2015). He also served as president of the American association and presentation copies, very rare offprints, College of Cardiology, the American Association and other gems for the discerning. Some of these gems for the History of Medicine, and the American Osler are obvious; others are more subtle, but just as worthy in Society. Now an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and their own way. I highly recommend reading this auction the History of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, he was the catalogue, and the online-only auction catalogue that will Senior Historical Consultant for the 2018 Ken Burns follow the March 11 sale, with more than the usual care. film The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science. Jeremy M. Norman From Vesalius to the Artificial Heart: An lllustrated History of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Featuring Highlights from the Auction By W. Bruce Fye, MD Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue, New York Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. Lot 188 Achilles Pirmin Gasser, ownership inscription in Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543 (details) ORDER OF SALE: 1-210 Classics of Medicine 211-305 Johns Hopkins and its First Faculty 306-316 Early Medical Photography 317-405 Classics of Cardiology IMPORTANT NOTICES Subject to the Limited Right of Rescission regarding Authorship, lots advertisements; damage to bindings, stains, tears, foxing or other are sold with all faults and imperfections. However, if on collation cosmetic defects, unless resulting in loss to text or illustration; any printed book in this catalog is found to be materially defective in defects to atlases, manuscripts, music, periodicals, and items sold text or illustration, the same may be returned to Bonhams within 20 as collections, archives, association copies, extra-illustrated copies, days of the sale; the undisclosed defect must be detailed in writing. or bindings. The following shall not constitute the basis for a return under the Items indicated in the catalog as “framed” have not been examined foregoing provision: defects stated in the catalog or announced out-of-frame, unless specifically stated. at the time of sale; un-named items, blanks, half-titles, or Classics of Medicine Lots 1-210 Morning Session 10am (Lots 1-210) 2 1 2 1 2 ADDISON, THOMAS. 1793-1860. ALBINUS, BERNARD SIEGFRIED. 1697-1770. On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease on the Supra- Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body. [Bound Renal Capsules. London: Samuel Highley, 1855. with:] A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves. London: Large 4to (327 x 254 mm). 11 hand-colored lithographed plates. John and Paul Knapton, 1749 and 1750. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt stamped upper cover, rebacked 2 works in 3 parts in one volume. Broadsheets (675 x 506 mm). 3 retaining original cloth. Corners bumped, erased library stamps, free engraved title vignettes, 40 engraved plates (12 in outline), and 11 front endpaper loose and held in place with tape. plates in second work. 20th century half morocco. Clean repaired Provenance: Logan Clendening (bookplate); University of Kansas tear to first title, some light dust soiling. (bookplate on back paste-down). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. “AMONG THE MOST ARTISTICALLY FIRST EDITION. “Addison was the first to realize the importance of PERFECT OF ANATOMICAL ATLASES... Wandelaar placed his the adrenal in clinical medicine” (Garrison-Morton). This study first skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to appeared in a shorter version in the London Medical Gazette (1849), give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to but was expanded for this first edition in book form. It describes produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the the condition which later became known as “Addison’s disease.” atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing Addison stumbled upon adrenal disease while trying to find the rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in cause of pernicious anemia, and was the first to suggest that the Europe, which had arrived at Amsterdam zoo in 1741” (Norman). See adrenal glands were essential for life. Garrison-Morton 3864; Heirs of Garrison-Morton 399; See Norman 29; Wellcome II, p. 26. Hippocrates 1502; Norman 8; Osler 1744; Waller 225 WITH: The Explanation of Albinus’s Anatomical Figures of the Human $4,000 - 6,000 Skeleton and Muscles. London: John and Paul Knapton, 1754. 4to (248 x 206 mm). 19th century half brown morocco and marbled boards. Joints starting, soiling to first few leaves, foxing. The text volume published to accompany the Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles and A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves. The text is translated from Albinus’s original Latin, but no translator is credited on the title page. Russell 6 and 8. $3,000 - 4,000 2 THE MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF W. BRUCE FYE | 7 3 4 3 4 ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED. 1697-1770. ALPINI, PROSPERO. 1553-1617. Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii. Leiden: De medicina Aegyptiorum, libri quatuor. Venice: Franciscus de Johannes and Herman Verbeek, 1761. Franciscis Senensem, 1591. Folio (430 x 270 mm). Engraved vignette on title page, 89 engraved 4to (235 x 176 mm). Later lithograph portrait bound in at front, plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Hinges cracked, woodcut vignette on title page, woodcut illustrations in text. Front minor wear to binding, light spotting. hinge cracked, dampstaining to a few page margins, browning.