Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1291

.

14 December 2004

Estimate: £80–£100

France, Cholera Epidemic Ended, 1821, a copper medal by R. Gayrard, figures of Religion and Science with patient, rev. legend, 47mm; Netherlands, Cholera Epidemic, Groningen, 1866, a bronze medal by D. van der Kellen, 50mm (Brettauer 1712; BDM III, 135-6); Inauguration of the Statue to Herman Boerhaave at Leyden, 1872, a copper medal by D. van der Kellen and J.I. Straeke, 54mm (Brettauer 138; BDM III, 136 and V, 698); Jozef Haerten, 1873, a bronze medal by J.P.M. Menger, 50mm (Brettauer 443; BDM IV, 24); Robert Koch, 1890, a bronze medal by P. Türpe and A. Pulst, 60mm (Brettauer 597; BDM VI, 153) [5]. Very fine and better (£80-100)

Provenance:
First bt Galerie des Monnaies.

Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738), professor of medicine, Leyden; Jozef Lodowijk Hulbert Haerten, Utrecht; Robert Koch (1843-1910), bacteriologist

Provenance: Second bt J. Schulman, previously from the Hosten collection, April 1959