- Lot 1
Newton's fascination with alchemy
Isaac Newton. 1670s
EstimateGBP 80,000 - 100,000Price realisedGBP 100,000Closed - Lot 2
A signed document, repaying a loan
Isaac Newton. 24 December 1718
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 56,250Closed - Lot 3
Darwin burnishes his geological credentials after the Beagle expedition
Charles Darwin. 8 May 1841
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 10,625Closed - Lot 4
Sympathy for a scientist in difficulties
Charles Darwin. 19 June 1867
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 5
On the most recent editions of his works
Charles Darwin. 10 March 1875
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 8,125Closed - Lot 6
Declining an invitation on the grounds of ill-health
Charles Darwin. 11 June 1876
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 5,625Closed - Lot 7
'The most memorable scientific expedition which ever left England'
Charles Darwin. 5 November 1876
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 11,875Closed - Lot 8
Defending the principle of natural selection
Charles Darwin. 22 November 1876
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedGBP 50,000Closed - Lot 9
On deep-sea dwellers and hermaphrodites
Charles Darwin. 7 February 1877
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 11,875Closed - Lot 10
Encouragement for a young naturalist
Charles Darwin. 26 November [1878]
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 11
A heartfelt vote of thanks for a book dedication
Charles Darwin. 20 January 1879
EstimateGBP 2,800 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 12
Supporting a faculty application
Charles Darwin. 23 January 1879
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 13
A glowing review of the naturalist’s report on the Challenger expedition
Charles Darwin. 4 February 1879
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 15,000Closed - Lot 14
An invitation to visit alongside the polymath Francis Galton
Charles Darwin. 2 May 1880
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 15
On the election of the Linacre Professor at Oxford
Charles Darwin. 25 September 1881
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 6,875Closed - Lot 16
Subscribing to a memorial fund for a fellow scientist
Charles Darwin. 7 April 1882
EstimateGBP 2,800 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 18
Hans Albert Einstein’s copy of his father’s greatest contribution to physics
Albert Einstein. 1919
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 19
Recommending a young chemist to Fritz Haber
Albert Einstein. 12 July 1922
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 20
Hans Albert Einstein’s copy of his father’s Nobel Prize speech
Albert Einstein. 1923
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 6,250Closed - Lot 21
'The grass has now grown over this little affair'
Albert Einstein. 2 September 1925
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 22
The first version of Einstein's unified field theory.
Albert Einstein. 1925
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 23
Einstein on Newton: Hans Albert Einstein’s copy
Albert Einstein. 1928
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 13,750Closed - Lot 25
'Great and noble things come from isolated figures'
Albert Einstein. 1934
EstimateGBP 18,000 - 25,000Price realisedGBP 32,500Closed - Lot 26
'Burning with enthusiasm' at seeing an old friend from Berlin
Albert Einstein. 23 October 1941
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 27
'So excited ... that I could think of nothing else'
Albert Einstein. 17 June 1942
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 11,250Closed - Lot 28
'An unwavering pursuit of truth'
Albert Einstein. 30 September 1942
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 29
A self-mocking acceptance of a lunch invitation
Albert Einstein. 31 March 1944
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 30
The Meaning of Relativity: authorial presentation copy
Albert Einstein. 1950
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 31
'This dissertation is my original work'
Stephen Hawking. 15 October 1965
EstimateGBP 100,000 - 150,000Price realisedGBP 584,750Closed - Lot 32
'Singularities and the geometry of space-time'
Stephen Hawking. 13 December 1966
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 30,000Closed - Lot 33
Theory of the Detection of Short Bursts of Gravitation Radiation
Stephen Hawking and G.W. Gibbons. 1977
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 34
The Four Laws of Black Hole Mechanics
J.M. Bardeen, B. Carter & Stephen Hawking. 1973
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 35
Why is the Universe Isotropic?
Stephen Hawking and C.B. Collins. 1973
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 36
The Rotation and Distortion of the Universe
Stephen Hawking and C.B. Collins. 1973
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,375Closed - Lot 37
Black Hole Explosions?
Stephen Hawking. 1974
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 38
Fundamental Breakdown of Physics in Gravitational Collapse
Stephen Hawking. 1975
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 39
Action integrals and partition functions in quantum gravity
Stephen Hawking and G.W. Gibbons. 15 May 1977
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 40
Classification of Gravitational Instanton Symmetries
Stephen Hawking and G.W. Gibbons. 1979
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 41
The Boundary Conditions of the Universe
Stephen Hawking. 1982
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 42
Wave function of the Universe
Stephen Hawking and J.B. Hartle. 1983
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 1,875Closed - Lot 43
Thermodynamics of Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Space
Stephen Hawking and Don N. Page. 1983
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,875Closed - Lot 44
Origin of Structure in the Universe
Stephen Hawking and J.J. Halliwell. 1985
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 1,750Closed - Lot 45
Brief History of Time 'signed' with a thumbprint
Stephen Hawking. 1988
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 68,750Closed - Lot 46
Spectrum of Wormholes
Stephen Hawking and Don N. Page. 1990
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 48
Stephen Hawking’s Time Travellers Invitation
Stephen Hawking. October 2013
EstimateGBP 100 - 150Price realisedGBP 11,250Closed - Lot 49
Stephen Hawking makes an appearance on The Simpsons
Stephen Hawking. 14 December 2009
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 6,250Closed - Lot 50
Hawking's medals and awards
Stephen Hawking. 1975-1999
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 296,750Closed - Lot 51
Stephen Hawking’s bomber jacket
Stephen Hawking. 2016
EstimateGBP 100 - 150Price realisedGBP 40,000Closed - Lot 52
A motorised wheelchair
Stephen Hawking. c.1988
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 296,750Closed