- Lot 1
Edison works on his lightbulb
Thomas Edison. 1880-1886
EstimateGBP 60,000 - 90,000Price realisedGBP 75,000Closed - Lot 3
An experiment in photography
Nikola Tesla. 29 May 1896
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 6,250Closed - Lot 4
Letters by Lenard, Stark, Kamerlingh Onnes and others
Wilhelm Wien (recipient). 1901-1915
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 16,250Closed - Lot 5
‘Anode rays are indeed very interesting’
Wilhelm Röntgen. 1902-1915
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 13,750Closed - Lot 6
Space travel is possible: the theoretical proof
Robert Esnault-Pelterie. 1913
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 7,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 7
A planet beyond Neptune
Percival Lowell. 1915
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 8
The universe is expanding
Vesto Melvin Slipher. 1917
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 7,000Price realisedGBP 10,625Closed - Lot 10
Thanking another Einstein for a pipe
Albert Einstein. April 1921
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 13,750Closed - Lot 11
'A new atomic theory'
Erwin Schrödinger. 27 December 1925
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 22,500Closed - Lot 12
Criticising Mussolini and discussing exponential decay
Erwin Schrödinger. 3 September 1927
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 13
On the Davisson-Germer experiment
Erwin Schrödinger. 25 November 1927
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 15
The complementarity principle
Niels Bohr. 14 April 1928
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 8,125Closed - Lot 18EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 8,125Closed
- Lot 19
'A general theory of relativity of nuclear processes'
Albert Einstein. 16 June 1935
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 16,250Closed - Lot 20
‘His American Holiness …‘
Albert Einstein. 19 June 1936
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 22
A Second World War Enigma Machine
Olympia Büromaschinenwerke. 1944
EstimateGBP 200,000 - 300,000Price realisedGBP 347,250Closed - Lot 24
'Feeling our way': a densely scientific letter, including an equation
Albert Einstein. 1945
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedGBP 15,000Closed - Lot 28
Superfluidity: one of the defining moments in modern physics
Richard Feynman. 1953
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,500Closed - Lot 31
A geodesic grid
Buckminster Fuller. 7 September 1980
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 32
Six reference works from Stephen Hawking's library
Stephen Hawking. 1962-1987
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 33
Hawking’s copies (one signed with initials) of two texts on Quantum Field Theory,
Stephen Hawking. 1964-1965
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 34
Black holes: a major paper inscribed by the author in his own hand
Stephen Hawking. 1966
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 27,500Closed - Lot 35
Astrophysical Quantities, with Hawking's ownership inscription
Stephen Hawking. 1970
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 6,875Closed - Lot 36
Newton's Principia, presented to Stephen Hawking by his wife Jane
Sir Isaac Newton. 1726 [1972]
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 6,000Closed - Lot 37
First edition of Hawking’s analysis of the cosmological principle
Stephen Hawking and C.B. Collins. 1973
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 1,500Closed - Lot 38
Mathematics and physics reference books from Hawking's library
[Stephen Hawking]. 1973-1983
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 39
Hawking’s most important article, predicting Hawking Radiation
Stephen Hawking. 1974
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 40
The path to the discovery of Hawking Radiation
Stephen Hawking and G.W. Gibbons. 1977
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 750Closed - Lot 41
Cold War Entropy – presentation copies of Soviet astrophysics
Stephen Hawking. 1978-1986
EstimateGBP 600 - 900Price realisedGBP 1,375Closed - Lot 44
On the probability of tunnelling to an expanding universe
Stephen Hawking and J.B. Hartle. 1983
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 45
Hawking's own copy of the Nuffield Workshop of 1982
Stephen Hawking, G. Gibbons & S. Siklos. 1983
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 46
Stephen Hawking in Bloom County
Berkeley Breathed. 30 June 1988
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,750Closed - Lot 47
Hawking suggests wormholes may exist
Stephen Hawking and Don N. Page. 1990
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,375Closed - Lot 48
The legendary silhouette
Stephen Hawking. c.1990
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 750Closed - Lot 49
A Brief History of Time in a special presentation binding to the author
Stephen Hawking. 1990
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 50
Presentation draft copy to Hawking of this popular science book
Kip Thorne. 1992
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 13,750Closed - Lot 51
Black Holes and Baby Universes 'signed' with Professor Hawking's thumbprint
Stephen Hawking. 1994
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 52
Portrait of Stephen Hawking
Anton Corbijn. 1999
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed - Lot 54
First draft of Hawking's bestselling sequel to A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking. 2002
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 750Closed - Lot 55
Stephen Hawking’s personal Simpsons figurine
[Stephen Hawking]. 2003
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 56
Stephen Hawking's Celestial Globe
Uncle Milton. 2011
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 875Closed - Lot 57
Stephen Hawking's doctoral hood
[Stephen Hawking]. 2017
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed