- Lot 1
Arataea sive signa coelestia
Jakob van Gheyn, 1621
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed - Lot 2
Naturalist on the River Amazons
Henry Walter Bates, 1863
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 3
Ein newe und schöne Art der Vollkommenen Visier-Kunst
Johann Hartmann Beyer, 1603
EstimateUSD 1,600 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 5
Experimentum anatomicum quo arteriolarum lymphaticarum existentia probabiliter adstruitur, institutum, descriptum, et icone illustratum
Jan Bleuland, 1784
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 1,638Closed - Lot 7
Die sogenannten Kunst-Uhren
Joseph Georg Böhm, 1863
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 9
Risposta ... alle considerazioni fatte sopra alcuni luoghi del suo libro della forza della percossa del R. P. F. Stefano de gl’ Angeli
Giovanni Borelli, 1668
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 11
A contemporary account of the 1766 comet
Joao de Souza Freire de Araujo Borges Da Veiga, 1766
EstimateUSD 900 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 3,024Closed - Lot 12
Catalogo ragionato di una raccolta di rocce
Giovanni Battista Brocchi, 1817
EstimateUSD 900 - 1,400Price realisedUSD 630Closed - Lot 13
A Brief Account of some Travels in Hungaria [and] An Account of Several Travels through a Great Part of Germany
Edward Brown, 1673 and 1677
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 15
Herbarium vivae eicones ad nature imitationem
Otto Brunfels, 1532
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,930Closed - Lot 17
Monument Élevé a la Gloire ou Relation des Travaux et des Moyens Mechaniques
Marin Carburi de Ceffalonie, 1777
EstimateUSD 500 - 800Price realisedUSD 756Closed - Lot 18
Mémoire sur les intégrales définies
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, 1825
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 756Closed - Lot 19
Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière
Bourneville and Regnard, 1876-1880
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Closed - Lot 21
La dioptrique oculaire
Cherubin d’Orléans, 1670
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,032Closed - Lot 22
Pierre Chirac's lectures on medicine
Lamarque, 1714-1715
EstimateUSD 900 - 1,400Price realisedUSD 3,276Closed - Lot 23
Medical Reports from the West Riding Lunatic Asylum
James Crichton-Browne, 1871-76
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,780Closed - Lot 24
Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres
Nicolas Chuquet, 1881
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 252Closed - Lot 25
Preparing "The Voyage of the Beagle" for publication
Charles Darwin, late October 1837
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 20,000Closed - Lot 26
On the delay in publication of his Journal of Researches
Charles Darwin, 1839
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Closed - Lot 27
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Charles Darwin, 1839
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 13,860Closed - Lot 28
The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
Charles Darwin and others, 1838-1843
EstimateUSD 70,000 - 90,000Price realisedUSD 88,200Closed - Lot 29
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle
Charles Darwin, et al., 1839
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 8,190Closed - Lot 30
Geological Observations on South America
Charles Darwin, 1846
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 22,680Closed - Lot 31
The Tendency of Species to form Varieties
Charles Darwin and A.R. Wallace, 1858
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,024Closed - Lot 32
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1861
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 50,400Closed - Lot 33
The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals
Charles Darwin, 1872
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 17,640Closed - Lot 34
John Stuart Mill's copy
Charles Darwin, 1872
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 11,340Closed - Lot 35
On the nesting habits of birds
Charles Darwin, 1873
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 7,560Closed - Lot 36
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin, 1871
EstimateUSD 35,000 - 55,000Price realisedUSD 47,880Closed - Lot 38
Presentation copy of Insectivorous Plants
Charles Darwin, 1875
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 15,120Closed - Lot 39
On the "gradation of structure"
Charles Darwin, 28 August [1871]
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 25,200Closed - Lot 40
Annulorum trium diversi generis instrumentorum astronomicorum componendi ratio atque usus
Johann Dryander et al., 1537
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 756Closed - Lot 41
Supporting Austrian Jewish educator Eugenie Schwarzwald
Albert Einstein, 6 October 1938
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed - Lot 42
To his former student
Albert Einstein, 29 August 1915
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed - Lot 43
Alluding to E=mc2
Albert Einstein, 14 August 1950
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 35,280Closed - Lot 44
Posing in his famous bomber jacket
Albert Einstein, 1947
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 15,120Closed - Lot 45
Vom Garten-Baw: Oder Unterricht von der Gärtnerey auff das Clima der Chur-Marck Brandenburg
Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, 1672
EstimateUSD 900 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 504Closed - Lot 46
Opera observationum et curationum medico-chirurgicarum quae extant omnia
Wilhelm Fabri von Hilden 1646
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 47
De medicatis aquis, atque de fossilibus
Gabriele Falloppio, 1564
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 756Closed - Lot 48
In Hippocratis librum de vulneribus capitis
Gabriele Falloppio, 1566
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 6,000Closed - Lot 49
Expositio in librum Galeni De Ossibus huic accesserunt observationes anatomicae eiusdem authoris
Gabriele Falloppio, 1570
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 50
Experimental Researches in Electricity and Magnetism
Michael Faraday, 1831-1855
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 45,000Closed - Lot 51
A manuscript abstract for his late work on electromagnetism
Michael Faraday, 1855
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 15,120Closed - Lot 52
Photographs of his private zoological museum in Manila
Hipólito Fernández, 1886
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,638Closed - Lot 53
De florum cultura
Giovanni Battista Ferrari, 1633
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,394Closed - Lot 54
De motu cordis, et sanguinis in animalibus pro Aristotele, & Galeno adversus anatomicos neotericos libri duo
Girolamo Franzosi, 1651
EstimateUSD 700 - 900Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 55
Newe geometrische und perspectivische Inventiones etlicher sonderbahrer Instrument
Johann Faulhaber, 1610
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 6,930Closed - Lot 56
Descrizzione della barriera, e della mascherata, fatte in Firenze a’ XVII. et a’ XIX. di Febbraio 1612
A masque honoring Galileo and Jupiter's moons, 1613
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 8,190Closed - Lot 57
Kurtzer gründlicher gebesserter unnd vermehrter Underricht, zubereitung und gebrauch, der hochnutzlichen mathematischen Instrumenten, Porportional Schregmass und Circkels
Galileo, Galgemair, and Brentel, 1615
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Closed - Lot 58
Tractatus de proportionum instrumento
Galileo and Bernegger, 1635
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Closed - Lot 59
De La Grossesse et accouchement des femmes
Jacques and Charles Guillemeau, 1621
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Closed - Lot 60
On the current state of scientific research
John Frederick William Herschel, 1845
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 21,420Closed - Lot 61
His first published work on his first major experiment
Heinrich Hertz, ca 1878-1880
EstimateUSD 80,000 - 120,000Closed - Lot 63
The Ichnology of Annandale or Illustrations of Footmarks impressed on the New Red Sandstone of Corncockle Muir
Sir William Jardine, [1850-] 1853
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 27,720Closed - Lot 64
Signed Applesoft ROM Chips
Steve Jobs, 1983 and Steve Wozniak, 2003
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 37,800Closed - Lot 65
A suite of emblematic florilegium engravings
Theodor de Bry after Jacob Kempener, 1604
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Closed - Lot 67
Spicilegium anatomicum
Theodor Kerckring, 1670 and 1671
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 68
Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum
Athanasius Kircher, 1643
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 69
Itinerarium exstaticum
Athanasius Kircher, 1656
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 70
Mundus subterraneus
Athanasius Kircher, 1665
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 15,120Closed - Lot 71
On expanding Gibbs' grand ensemble theory
Hendrik Anthony Kramers, 1937
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 630Closed - Lot 72
On perspective and Newton's color theory
Nicolas-Louis Lacaille, 1757
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Closed - Lot 73
An Herbal for the Bible
Levinus Lemnius, 1587
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 74
De miraculis occultis naturae
Levinus Lemnius, 1598
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 882Closed - Lot 75
Histoire naturelle des perroquets
François Levaillant, 1801-1805
EstimateUSD 100,000 - 150,000Price realisedUSD 107,100Closed - Lot 76
Sammelband of 5 works mostly on the controversy of the comets
Fortunio Liceti, 1640
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Closed - Lot 77
De perfecta constitutione hominis in utero
Fortunio Liceti, 1616
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 378Closed - Lot 79
Fundamenta testaceologiae
Carolus Linnaeus, 1771
EstimateUSD 900 - 1,400Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 80
Tractatus de corde. Item De Motu & Colore Sanguinis et Chyli in eum Transitu
Richard Lower, 1669
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Closed - Lot 81
De rerum natura libri sex. Unà cum paraphrastica explanatione, & animadversionibus
Lucretius and Giovanni Nardi, 1647
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 82
Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo
Marcello Malpighi, 1673
EstimateUSD 900 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 882Closed - Lot 83
The Universal Conchologist
Thomas Martyn, 1789
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 32,760Closed - Lot 85
Commentarii secundo aucti in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica Materia
Pier Andrea Mattioli, 1558
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 5,040Closed