- Lot 1
Newton's Principia in its first English edition
Isaac Newton. 1729
EstimateGBP 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedGBP 43,750Closed - Lot 6
Darwin and the entomologist
Charles Darwin. 19 May 1877
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 6,250Closed - Lot 8
On a biography of Charles Lyell
Charles Darwin. 16 February 1882
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 5,625Closed - Lot 9
An Einstein offprint on Brownian motion: Hans Albert Einstein's copy
Albert Einstein. 1907
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,500Closed - Lot 10
'A contradiction in the principle of relativity'
Albert Einstein. 23 July 1907
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 37,500Closed - Lot 11
Signals cannot exceed the speed of light
Albert Einstein. 26 August 1907
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 25,000Closed - Lot 12
Hans Albert Einstein’s copy of one of his father’s earliest papers
Albert Einstein. 1904
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 37,500Closed - Lot 13
On residual rays, and a controversy about gravitation
Albert Einstein. 27 January 1912
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 15,000Closed - Lot 14
Formulating the theory of gravitation
Albert Einstein. 17 May 1912
EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedGBP 30,000Closed - Lot 15
The first outline of general relativity
Albert Einstein. 30 January 1914
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 16
Refuting an opponent of special relativity
Albert Einstein. 18 July 1914
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 17
The finalisation of the general theory of relativity
Albert Einstein. 18 March 1916
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 32,500Closed - Lot 18
Einstein against his critics
Albert Einstein. 17 October 1916
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 19
Departing for his first visit to the USA
Albert Einstein. 21 March 1921
EstimateGBP 3,500 - 4,500Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 20
Supporting the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Albert Einstein. 1921
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 23
'Be benevolent towards people...'
Albert Einstein. 1925
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 12,500Closed - Lot 24
On the role of intellectuals in promoting peace
Albert Einstein. December 1925
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 26
A monumental signed portrait
Albert Einstein. May 1929
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 27
Reduced to penury by the Nazis
Albert Einstein. 19 July 1933
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 6,875Closed - Lot 28
The foundation of modern digital computing
Alan Turing. 1936-1937
EstimateGBP 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedGBP 30,000Closed - Lot 30
'The courage to be trivial': presentation copy of The Evolution of Physics
Albert Einstein. 1938
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 31
Einstein in five dimensions
Albert Einstein. 1941
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedGBP 25,000Closed - Lot 32
A meeting in New York with an old friend from Berlin
Albert Einstein. 3 November 1941
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,375Closed - Lot 33
Enquiries into memory loss – and a near-fatal sailing accident
Albert Einstein. 6 September 1944
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 34
'We are like shipwrecked beings'
Albert Einstein. 26 April 1945
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedGBP 22,500Closed - Lot 35
'As curious as children' before the great puzzle of existence
Albert Einstein. 29 September 1947
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 21,250Closed - Lot 36
Equations in unified field theory
Albert Einstein. 1948-49
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 5,625Closed - Lot 37
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist – presentation copy to a computing pioneer
Albert Einstein. 1949
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 38
The pursuit of truth is a substitute for religious faith
Albert Einstein. 24 January 1950
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 39
Deep in thought in his study
Albert Einstein. c.1950
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,200Price realisedGBP 1,875Closed - Lot 40
Praise for a revolutionary Jewish thinker
Albert Einstein. 20 December 1951
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 41
On the history and future of particle physics
Werner Heisenberg. 5 March 1964
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedGBP 22,500Closed - Lot 42
Albert Einstein by Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí. 1968
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 15,000Closed - Lot 43
On finite and infinite dimensions
Stephen Hawking. 21 November 1967
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 25,000Closed - Lot 44
A new definition for space-time singularity
Stephen Hawking. [Early 1968]
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 162,500Closed - Lot 45
A new post – and a new singularity theorem
Stephen Hawking. 12 February 1968
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 23,750Closed - Lot 47
The hunt for gravitational waves
Stephen Hawking. 10 November 1970
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 17,500Closed - Lot 48
Apollo 11: Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. n.d.
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 49
Attending a space exploration seminar
Neil Armstrong. [10-12 February 1972].
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,250Closed - Lot 50
The first Apple computer
Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak. 1976
EstimateGBP 300,000 - 500,000Price realisedGBP 371,250Closed - Lot 51
Superspace and Supergravity signed by Hawking
Stephen Hawking. 1981
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 52
Proof edition of A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking. 1988
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed - Lot 53
Brief History of Time 'signed' with a thumbprint
Stephen Hawking. 1988
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 6,000Closed - Lot 54
The Universe in a Nutshell 'signed' with a thumbprint
Stephen Hawking. 2001
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,250Closed - Lot 55
Feynman and his diagram
Richard Feynman. n.d.
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 10,000Closed