- Lot 1
De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor
Ulysse Aldrovandi, 1606
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 2
Conicorum Lib. V. VI. VII.
Apollonius of Perga, 1661
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 4,500Price realisedUSD 4,032Closed - Lot 3
De motu naturali gravium solidorum et liquidorum
Gioivanni Battista Baliani, 1646
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 4
Manuscript Inventory of a Seventeenth-Century Scientific Collection
David Blaesing and Karl Gottfried Hagen, 1820-1824
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 6EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,040Closed
- Lot 7
The Exam-Schedule of the Noble Students at the Marosvásárhely University for the Years 1847-1848
Farkas Bolyai, 1848
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Closed - Lot 8
Arithmetic for Beginners
Farkas Bolyai, 1850
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 1,134Closed - Lot 9
De viribus vivis dissertatio
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, 1745
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 10
De inaequalitatibus quas Saturnus et Jupiter
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, 1756
EstimateUSD 1,800 - 2,200Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 11
Philosophiae naturalis theoria
Ruggero Boscovich, 1758
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 113,400Closed - Lot 12
Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, fecondité, accouchements, et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz
Louise Bourgeois, 1609
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 8,820Closed - Lot 13
New Experiments Physico-Mechanical
Robert Boyle, 1662
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 17,640Closed - Lot 14
Foundations of the Mathematical Theory of Probability
Viktor Bunyakovsky, 1846
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 2,394Closed - Lot 15
Observationes circa viventia
Filippo Buonanni, 1691
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 16
Directorium generale uranometricum in quo trigonometriae logarithmicae fundamenta
Buonaventura Cavalieri, 1632
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Closed - Lot 17
Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu
Émilie du Châtelet, 1744
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 8,820Closed - Lot 18
In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius
Christoph Clavius, 1570
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 3,024Closed - Lot 19
Les Oeuvres … Divisées en cinq Traictez. 1. Les Commentaires sur Dioscoride. 2. Le Second Eden. 3. Exagoge mirabilium naturae e gazophylacio. 4. Synopsis plantarum cum ethymologiis. 5. Le Jardin & Cabinet Poëtique
Jacques and Paul Contant, 1628
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed - Lot 20
Nine tracts on experiments in electricity, the Macclesfield copy
DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus, et al, 1742-48
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Closed - Lot 21
La Conchyliologie
Dezallier d'Argenville, 1757
EstimateUSD 14,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 32,760Closed - Lot 22
Ausführliche Nachricht von neu entdeckten Zoolithen unbekannter vierfüsiger Thier
Johann Friederich Esper, 1774
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 5,040Closed - Lot 23
De venarum ostiolis, De formato foetu, etc.
Girolamo Fabrici, 1604 and 1603
EstimateUSD 70,000 - 100,000Closed - Lot 24
Fermat's Last Theorem
Diophantus and Fermat, 1670
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 32,760Closed - Lot 25
Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques
Ferussac and Deshayes, 1820-1851
EstimateUSD 9,500 - 14,000Price realisedUSD 18,900Closed - Lot 27
Pharmako-Basanos: or, the Touch-stone of Medicines
John Floyer, 1687-1690
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,016Closed - Lot 29
Alle Kranckheyt der Augen and Ein newes hochnutzlichs Büchlin von erkantnus der Kranckheyten der Augen
Leonhard Fuchs and Anonymous, 1539 and 1538
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 11,970Closed - Lot 30EstimateUSD 9,500 - 14,000Price realisedUSD 18,900Closed
- Lot 31
Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche
Galileo, 1638
EstimateUSD 60,000 - 80,000Price realisedUSD 94,500Closed - Lot 32
Quinto libro degli elementi d’ Euclide and Enodatio problematum universis geometri propositorum
Galileo and Viviani, 1674 and 1677
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,268Closed - Lot 33
Disquisitiones arithmeticae
Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1801
EstimateUSD 17,000 - 23,000Price realisedUSD 30,240Closed - Lot 34
Historiae animalium liber IIII. qui est de piscium & aquatilium animantium natura
Conrad Gesner, 1558
EstimateUSD 14,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 25,200Closed - Lot 35
Snow crystals, observed by James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., from February 8th to March 10th, 1855.
Glaisher, 1855
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 20,160Closed - Lot 36
Neuester Himmels-Atlas
Goldbach & von Zach, 1803
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 38
Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio
Otto von Guericke
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 20,160Closed - Lot 40
De Motu Cordis & Sanguinis in animalibus, Anatomica Exercitatio
William Harvey, 1640
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 20,000Closed - Lot 41
Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, made at Slough
John Herschel, 1833
EstimateUSD 700 - 900Price realisedUSD 882Closed - Lot 42
Ein New and wohlgerundt Rechenbuch, auff den Linien un[d] Ziffern
Simon Jacob von Coburg, 1565
EstimateUSD 2,400 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 3,276Closed - Lot 44
Traité du calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral
Sylvestre François Lacroix, 1797-1800
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 1,134Closed - Lot 45
Méchanique analytique
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, 1788
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed - Lot 46
Imagines septem planetarum
Henri Le Roy, c.1606-1610
EstimateUSD 600 - 900Price realisedUSD 630Closed - Lot 47
Essai sur la théorie des nombres
Adrien Marie Legendre, 1798
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 48
Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis
G.W. Leibniz, 1684
EstimateUSD 9,500 - 14,000Price realisedUSD 35,280Closed - Lot 49
Machina arithmetica
G.W. Leibniz, 1710
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 21,420Closed - Lot 50
Astronomical Photographs taken at the Lick Observatory
Lick Observatory Photographic Laboratory, 1940
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 51
L'histoire des plants
Geoffrey Linocier, 1620
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 12,600Closed - Lot 52
Znachenye nekotorich opredepennich integrapov
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, 1853
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 53
Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
Nikolai Lobachevsky, 1891
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 25,200Closed - Lot 54
Polnoye sobraniye sochineniy
Mikhail Lomonosov, 1784-1787
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 20,160Closed - Lot 56
Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell’ Accademia del Cimento
Lorenzo Magalotti, 1666
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Closed - Lot 57
La commare o riccoglitrice
Girolamo Mercurio, 1601
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 58
Planisphaeriorum universalium theorica
Guidobaldo Monte, 1579
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 59
Note overo memorie del Museo di Lodovico Moscardo
Lodovico Moscardo, 1656
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,032Closed - Lot 60
Mount Wilson photography archive
Approximately 102 photographs, 1910s-c.1930
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed - Lot 61
Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen
Abraham Munting, 1696
EstimateUSD 9,500 - 14,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed - Lot 63
Important contemporary review of Newton's Principia
Christoph Pfautz
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Closed - Lot 65
Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle
Isaac Newton translated by Émilie du Châtelet, 1759
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 23,940Closed - Lot 66
La perspective curieuse and L’optique et la catoptrique
Niceron and Mersenne, 1652 and 1651
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 67
Mathematische Calculatie
Dirck Nierop, 1659
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 1,134Closed - Lot 68
Memoir on the Gorilla, a presentation copy
Richard Owen, 1865
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed - Lot 69
Mathematicae Collectiones
Pappus of Alexandria, 1588
EstimateUSD 4,500 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 70
Traite du Calcul Conjectural, ou L'art de Raisonner
Sébastien-Antoine Parisot, 1810
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 10,710Closed - Lot 71
L’art de conjecturer à la loterie
Sébastien Antoine Parisot, 1801
EstimateUSD 250 - 500Price realisedUSD 5,670Closed - Lot 72EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 5,292Closed
- Lot 74
Elephantographia Curiosa, seu Elephanti descriptio
Georg Christoph Petri von Hartenfels, 1715
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 4,500Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 75
Tabulae eclypsium
Peurbach and Regiomontanus, 1514
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 12,600Closed - Lot 76
La Sfera del Mondo
Alessandro Piccolomini, 1566
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 1,134Closed - Lot 77
Photographs of nebulae
Louis Rabourdin, mostly 1897-1899
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 81
Eratosthenes Batavus
Willebrord Snel, 1617
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 11,970Closed - Lot 82
The Process of Calotype Photogenic Drawing
W. Henry Fox Talbot, 1841
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 16,380Closed - Lot 83
Trigonometria cum magno logarithmor[um] canone
Benjamin Ursinus, 1624-1625
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 13,860Closed - Lot 84
Ehemaligen Predigers auf den Ostindischen Inseln Amboina, Banda, & Abhandlung von Schnecken, Muscheln und Seegewächsen
François Valentijn, 1773
EstimateUSD 1,800 - 2,200Closed