- Lot 1
A commentary on Aristotle's Physics
Pisa? late 1500s
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,276Closed - Lot 2
A treatise on cosmology and mathematics
France, c. 1630
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 6
Kurzer Grundriss eines Versuchs I. Die Arithmetik […] II. In der Geometrie
Farkas Bolyai, 1851
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Closed - Lot 7
Theses seu communes loci, totius rei medicae
Otto Brunfels, 1532
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,386Closed - Lot 8
Opus Novum de proportionibus numerorum
Girolamo Cardano, 1570
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,024Closed - Lot 10
An important and coherent collection of manuscript notes and lunar tables, devoted to Cassini’s study of the motions of the moon
Bologna and Paris, c.1651-1710
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 21,420Closed - Lot 11
Alcuni opuscoli filosofici
Benedetto Castelli, 1669
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 12
“Desmanthus cinereus” and “Tagetes erecta fl[ore] pl[eno] var”
Two drawings on vellum by Baldassare Cattrani, c.1800
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 7,560Closed - Lot 13
Observationum solarium libri tres
Jacob Christmann, 1601
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 3,780Closed - Lot 14
Monographia molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium insularium Maderensium
António da Costa, 1867
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 378Closed - Lot 16
Rerum Arithmeticarum Libri sex -Liber de numeris Polygonis seu Multiangulis
Diophantus of Alexandria, 1575
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 15,120Closed - Lot 17
Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Bergwercks Arten
Lazarus Ercker, 1580; bound with the second German edition of Agricola
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 11,970Closed - Lot 18
Euclid's Elements
Ratdolt, 1482; extensively annotated
EstimateUSD 300,000 - 400,000Price realisedUSD 403,200Closed - Lot 19
Euclid's Elements
First Italian edition, 1543
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 20
First printing of Fermat's Last Theorem
in Diophantus's Arithmeticorum libri sex, 1670
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Closed - Lot 21
Varia opera mathematica
Pierre de Fermat, 1679
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 56,700Closed - Lot 22
Patent for the method of producing nuclear reactions
Enrico Fermi and others, 1937
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Closed - Lot 24
Manuscript on the inquisition in Naples
Anonymous, c. 1630
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 26
Gyocho ruishu
Edo Period natural history album
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 10,080Closed - Lot 27
Prodromus coptus sive aegyptiacus
Athanasius Kircher, 1636
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,268Closed - Lot 28EstimateUSD 10,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 44,100Closed
- Lot 29
Die Hermannshöhle bei Rübeland
Illustrated with 20 collotype plates, 1889
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 252Closed - Lot 30
First editions of four major papers on Kummer’s theory of ideal prime factors
Ernst Kummer, 1857-1862
EstimateUSD 500 - 800Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 31
Traité du calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral
Sylvestre François Lacroix, 1797-1800
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 33
Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia
Pietro Andrea Mattioli, 1565
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 27,720Closed - Lot 34
Original woodblock for Cardus vulgaris [Carline Thistle], from Mattioli's Herbal
Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, c.1562
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 16,380Closed - Lot 35
Seven autograph manuscript notebooks
Henry Maxwell, c.1818-1823
EstimateUSD 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,260Closed - Lot 36
On nuclear fission
Lise Meitner, et al, 1937
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,016Closed - Lot 37
"Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: A New Type of Nuclear Reaction"
Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, 1939
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Closed - Lot 38
“Products of the Fission of the Uranium Nucleus”
Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, 1939
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Closed - Lot 39EstimateUSD 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,260Closed
- Lot 40
The Apollo 11 moon landing
NASA transcripts, 20 July 1969
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,780Closed - Lot 41
Katalog der bibliothek des K.K. Hof-mineralien-cabinetes in Wien
Paul Maria Partsch, 1851
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 378Closed - Lot 42
Album of original botanical drawings, from the garden of Rouen
Madame Pinard, 1762
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 5,500Price realisedUSD 10,710Closed - Lot 43
Recherches sur l’origine probable des formations lunaires
Pierre Puiseux, 1896
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 756Closed - Lot 44
Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'insetti
Francesco Redi, 1668
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,638Closed - Lot 45
La Botanique
Redouté and Rousseau, 1805
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 13,860Closed - Lot 46
Ars analytica mathematum
Carlo Rinaldini, 1684
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 5,040Closed - Lot 47
On the Great Comet of 1618
Giovanni Antonio Roffeni, c.1619
EstimateUSD 500 - 700Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 48
Abhandlung der Oekonomie
Joachim Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky, 1787
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 11,340Closed - Lot 49
Trattato del legno fossile minerale nuovamente scoperto nel quale brevemente si accenna la varia, & mutabil natura di detto legno
Francesco Stelluti, 1637
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Closed - Lot 50
Raccolta di fiori, frutti e agrumi
Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, 1822-1829
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 16,380Closed - Lot 51
L’Origine delle fontane
Antonio Vallisneri, 1726
EstimateUSD 500 - 700Price realisedUSD 252Closed - Lot 53
Tropical Nature and other Essays
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1878
EstimateUSD 400 - 600Price realisedUSD 756Closed - Lot 55
The Berlin-Neubabelsberg observatory
Carl Zeiss AG, 1915
EstimateUSD 700 - 900Price realisedUSD 126Closed - Lot 57
Responding to atomic physicist James Franck
Niels Bohr, 1 March 1922
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,260Closed - Lot 59
On the public's appreciation of science
Marie Curie
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,032Closed - Lot 60
A self winding stock ticker
Thomas Edison, c. 1900
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 119,700Closed - Lot 61
On his family's applications for U.S. citizenship
Albert Einstein, 23 May 1935
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 13,860Closed - Lot 62
Writing to Mount Wilson astronomer Gustaf Stromberg
Albert Einstein, 19 December 1938
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 63
A signed photograph
Albert Einstein, [1955]
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 12,600Closed - Lot 64
Pair of scientist letters signed
Michael Faraday and Robert Bunsen, 1858-60
EstimateUSD 600 - 800Price realisedUSD 1,638Closed - Lot 65
On opposition to vaccines
Edward Jenner, 13 December 1810
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 66
Great American Mastodon!!
Exhibition broadside, c.1845
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed - Lot 67
On the spread of telegraphy across the world
Samuel F.B. Morse, 18 June 1867
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 6,048Closed - Lot 68
On Russian research into the atomic bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 10 March 1948
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 8,820Closed - Lot 70
Seven signed letters from notable scientists
Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Antione Lavoisier, et al
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed - Lot 71
Criticizing Nazi attempts to discredit Einstein's theory of relativity
Max Planck, 5 February 1941
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 8,190Closed - Lot 72
De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem
Gaspare Tagliacozzi, 1597
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 7,560Closed - Lot 73
On the first photographs taken with phosphorescent light
Nikola Tesla, 26 January 1894
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 8,820Closed - Lot 74
Les Affiches étrangères illustrees
Presented by Nikola Tesla, c. 1897
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 5,670Closed - Lot 75
De humani corporis fabrica
Andreas Vesalius, 1555, his annotated copy
EstimateUSD 800,000 - 1,200,000Price realisedUSD 2,228,000Closed - Lot 76
Vesalius's Icones anatomicae
Printed from the original woodblocks, 1935
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 7,560Closed - Lot 77
The Orchid Album
Robert Warner, Benjamin Samuel Williams and Thomas Moore, 1882-1897
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Closed - Lot 78
The discovery of the structure of DNA
Crick & Watson, April 1953
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 30,240Closed - Lot 79
On his patent infringement lawsuit
James Watt, 9 August 1795
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 81
The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane
Francis Bacon, 1605
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed - Lot 82
A Collection of Devotional Tracts, including "Observations on the inslaving ... of Negroes"
Anthony Benezet, 1760. Franklin imprint.
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Closed - Lot 83
Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian Natives of this Continent
Anthony Benezet, 1784
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 84
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake, 1839
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed