- Lot 1
Newton: Master of the Mint
Isaac Newton. c.1708
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 2
Einstein in the mountains
Albert Einstein. 27 July 1901
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 3
'The equation "signal velocity ≤ velocity of light L" cannot contain anything new'
Albert Einstein. 29 July 1907
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 4
Signal velocities may not exceed the speed of light
Albert Einstein. 11 August 1907
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedGBP 20,000Closed - Lot 5
A paper for the Annalen der Physik
Albert Einstein. 7 October 1910
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 8
A paper on thermodynamics
Albert Einstein. 17 January 1912
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 6,875Closed - Lot 9
'This gravitational problem is extremely interesting'
Albert Einstein. 11 March 1912
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 16,250Closed - Lot 10
Submitting a paper on gravity
Albert Einstein. 20 March 1912
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 5,625Closed - Lot 14
The origins of special relativity in the ‘ether question’
Albert Einstein. 19 June 1919
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 22,500Closed - Lot 16
On the place of mathematics in physics
Albert Einstein. 1921
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 17
Einstein's 'easy-going monastic' life
Albert Einstein. 20 May 1924
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 20
Disagreeing with Niels Bohr
Erwin Schrödinger. 21 October 1926
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 22
Moving to join Einstein in Berlin
Erwin Schrödinger. 8 October 1927
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 1,750Closed - Lot 25
Einstein on Newton: Hans Albert Einstein's copy
Albert Einstein. 1927
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 26
Recommending a paper on causality
Albert Einstein. 10 November 1928
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,500Closed - Lot 28
Critiquing a new theory of relativity
Max Planck. 25 January 1928
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 29
Einstein's evolving vision of Zionism
Albert Einstein. 19 June 1930
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 13,750Closed - Lot 30
Experimental validation of special relativity
Albert Einstein. 27 February 1932
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 10,625Closed - Lot 31
A pacifist in militaristic Prussia
Albert Einstein. 15 September 1932
EstimateGBP 2,800 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 32
Failing to foresee the rise of Nazism
Albert Einstein. 26 November 1932
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 33
Proposals to save the Hebrew University
Albert Einstein. 3 June 1934
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 34
Eagerly following events in Palestine
Albert Einstein. 5 June 1936
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 36
'A rare display of character for a German!'
Albert Einstein. 22 October 1932
EstimateGBP 3,500 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 37
The primacy of theoretical over experimental physics
Albert Einstein. 14 December 1936
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 39
When is a hypothesis valuable?
Albert Einstein. 1 July 1938
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 41
On helping the maverick physicist Felix Ehrenhaft
Albert Einstein. 2 March 1939
EstimateGBP 2,800 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 2,500Closed - Lot 42
'A paper that is especially close to my heart'
Albert Einstein. 9 May 1939
EstimateGBP 2,800 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 2,500Closed - Lot 43
Ferromagnetism and quantum spin
Werner Heisenberg. 22 July [1939]
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 45
‘Searching after what is hidden’
Albert Einstein. 13 January 1943
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 21,250Closed - Lot 46
'Constantly under the pressure of intractable problems'
Albert Einstein. 11 April 1946
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 8,125Closed - Lot 48
‘The controversy about the physics of probability’
Albert Einstein. 2 January 1950
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 49
‘The completed and fulfilled life is something incorruptible’
Albert Einstein. 15 June 1952
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 10,000Closed - Lot 50
The first published account of the molecular structure of DNA.
James Dewey Watson and Francis H.C. Crick. 1953
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 50,000Closed - Lot 51
Bohr in his academic finery
Niels Bohr. c.1950s
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,750Closed - Lot 53
'I hope to avoid a collision'
Stephen Hawking. [26 April 1968]
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedGBP 50,000Closed - Lot 54
Apollo 11: Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. n.d.
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 55
Introducing a 'hidden thermodynamics of particles'
Louis de Broglie. 1970
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,000Closed - Lot 57
Superspace and Supergravity signed by Hawking
Stephen Hawking. 1981
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 58
A Brief History of Time 'signed' with a fingerprint
Stephen Hawking. 1988
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed