• Auction 25228

    Online sale for TDCR-431 Testing Only

    23 September 2024 - 20 December 2024, New York
125 Lots for Sale 25228
Lot 1
A commentary on Aristotle's Physics
Pisa? late 1500s
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Lot 2
A treatise on cosmology and mathematics
France, c. 1630
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Lot 3
The Milky Way
& Halley's Comet
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Lot 4
Atlas of the Milky Way
E.E. Barnard, 1927
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Lot 5
Ars conjectandi
Jacob Bernoulli, 1713
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Lot 6
Kurzer Grundriss eines Versuchs I. Die Arithmetik […] II. In der Geometrie
Farkas Bolyai, 1851
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Lot 7
Theses seu communes loci, totius rei medicae
Otto Brunfels, 1532
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Lot 8
Opus Novum de proportionibus numerorum
Girolamo Cardano, 1570
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Lot 9
Mechanicorum libri octo
Paolo Casati, 1684
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Lot 10
An important and coherent collection of manuscript notes and lunar tables,...
Bologna and Paris, c.1651-1710
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Lot 11
Alcuni opuscoli filosofici
Benedetto Castelli, 1669
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Lot 12
“Desmanthus cinereus” and “Tagetes erecta fl[ore] pl[eno] var”
Two drawings on vellum by Baldassare Cattrani, c.1800
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Lot 13
Observationum solarium libri tres
Jacob Christmann, 1601
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Lot 14
Monographia molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium insularium...
António da Costa, 1867
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Lot 15
Opuscula posthuma, physica et mathematica
René Descartes, 1701
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Lot 16
Rerum Arithmeticarum Libri sex -Liber de numeris Polygonis seu Multiangulis
Diophantus of Alexandria, 1575
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Lot 17
Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Bergwercks Arten
Lazarus Ercker, 1580; bound with the second German edition of Agricola
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Lot 18
Euclid's Elements
Ratdolt, 1482; extensively annotated
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Lot 19
Euclid's Elements
First Italian edition, 1543
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Lot 20
First printing of Fermat's Last Theorem
in Diophantus's Arithmeticorum libri sex, 1670
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Lot 21
Varia opera mathematica
Pierre de Fermat, 1679
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Lot 22
Patent for the method of producing nuclear reactions
Enrico Fermi and others, 1937
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Lot 23
Compendiosa totius Anatomie delineatio
Thomas Geminus, 1545
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Lot 24
Manuscript on the inquisition in Naples
Anonymous, c. 1630
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Lot 25
Hortus sanitatis
Meydenbach, 1491
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Lot 26
Gyocho ruishu
Edo Period natural history album
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Lot 27
Prodromus coptus sive aegyptiacus
Athanasius Kircher, 1636
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Lot 28
14 woodblocks from Athanasius Kircher's Prodromus Coptus
Rome, c.1636
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Lot 29
Die Hermannshöhle bei Rübeland
Illustrated with 20 collotype plates, 1889
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Lot 30
First editions of four major papers on Kummer’s theory of ideal prime factors
Ernst Kummer, 1857-1862
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Lot 31
Traité du calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral
Sylvestre François Lacroix, 1797-1800
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Lot 32
The Pomological Magazine
John Lindley, 1828-1830
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Lot 33
Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia
Pietro Andrea Mattioli, 1565
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Lot 34
Original woodblock for Cardus vulgaris [Carline Thistle], from Mattioli's Herbal
Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, c.1562
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Lot 35
Seven autograph manuscript notebooks
Henry Maxwell, c.1818-1823
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Lot 36
On nuclear fission
Lise Meitner, et al, 1937
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Lot 37
\"Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: A New Type of Nuclear Reaction\"
Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, 1939
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Lot 38
“Products of the Fission of the Uranium Nucleus”
Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, 1939
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Lot 39
Opera de medicamentorum purgantium delectu, castigatione, & in usu
Mesue, 1581
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Lot 40
The Apollo 11 moon landing
NASA transcripts, 20 July 1969
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Lot 41
Katalog der bibliothek des K.K. Hof-mineralien-cabinetes in Wien
Paul Maria Partsch, 1851
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Lot 42
Album of original botanical drawings, from the garden of Rouen
Madame Pinard, 1762
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Lot 43
Recherches sur l’origine probable des formations lunaires
Pierre Puiseux, 1896
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Lot 44
Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'insetti
Francesco Redi, 1668
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Lot 45
La Botanique
Redouté and Rousseau, 1805
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Lot 46
Ars analytica mathematum
Carlo Rinaldini, 1684
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Lot 47
On the Great Comet of 1618
Giovanni Antonio Roffeni, c.1619
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Lot 48
Abhandlung der Oekonomie
Joachim Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky, 1787
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Lot 49
Trattato del legno fossile minerale nuovamente scoperto nel quale brevemente si...
Francesco Stelluti, 1637
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Lot 50
Raccolta di fiori, frutti e agrumi
Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, 1822-1829
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Lot 51
L’Origine delle fontane
Antonio Vallisneri, 1726
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Lot 52
Neurographia universalis
Raymond Vieussens, 1685
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Lot 53
Tropical Nature and other Essays
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1878
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Lot 54
An Account of the Foxglove
William Withering, 1785
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Lot 55
The Berlin-Neubabelsberg observatory
Carl Zeiss AG, 1915
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Lot 56
The Birds and The Quadrupeds
John James Audubon, 1860
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Lot 57
Responding to atomic physicist James Franck
Niels Bohr, 1 March 1922
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Lot 58
Philosophia Libera
Nathanael Carpenter, 1637
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Lot 59
On the public's appreciation of science
Marie Curie
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Lot 60
A self winding stock ticker
Thomas Edison, c. 1900
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Lot 61
On his family's applications for U.S. citizenship
Albert Einstein, 23 May 1935
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Lot 62
Writing to Mount Wilson astronomer Gustaf Stromberg
Albert Einstein, 19 December 1938
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Lot 63
A signed photograph
Albert Einstein, [1955]
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Lot 64
Pair of scientist letters signed
Michael Faraday and Robert Bunsen, 1858-60
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Lot 65
On opposition to vaccines
Edward Jenner, 13 December 1810
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Lot 66
Great American Mastodon!!
Exhibition broadside, c.1845
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Lot 67
On the spread of telegraphy across the world
Samuel F.B. Morse, 18 June 1867
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Lot 68
On Russian research into the atomic bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 10 March 1948
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Lot 69
Opera
Ambrose Paré, 1582
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Lot 70
Seven signed letters from notable scientists
Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Antione Lavoisier, et al
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Lot 71
Criticizing Nazi attempts to discredit Einstein's theory of relativity
Max Planck, 5 February 1941
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Lot 72
De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem
Gaspare Tagliacozzi, 1597
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Lot 73
On the first photographs taken with phosphorescent light
Nikola Tesla, 26 January 1894
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Lot 74
Les Affiches étrangères illustrees
Presented by Nikola Tesla, c. 1897
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Lot 75
De humani corporis fabrica
Andreas Vesalius, 1555, his annotated copy
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Lot 76
Vesalius's Icones anatomicae
Printed from the original woodblocks, 1935
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Lot 77
The Orchid Album
Robert Warner, Benjamin Samuel Williams and Thomas Moore, 1882-1897
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Lot 78
The discovery of the structure of DNA
Crick & Watson, April 1953
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Lot 79
On his patent infringement lawsuit
James Watt, 9 August 1795
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Lot 80
The Essayes
Sir Francis Bacon, 1625
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Lot 81
The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of...
Francis Bacon, 1605
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Lot 82
A Collection of Devotional Tracts, including \"Observations on the inslaving ......
Anthony Benezet, 1760. Franklin imprint.
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Lot 83
Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian...
Anthony Benezet, 1784
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Lot 84
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake, 1839
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Lot 85
A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of...
Edward Burrough, 1661
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Lot 86
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed
Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1551
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Lot 87
The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1561
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Lot 88
The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer
Edited by Thomas Speght, 1598
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Lot 89
The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1687
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Lot 90
Divi Britannici
Sir Winston Churchill, 1675
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Lot 91
Poems
John Donne, 1633
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Lot 92
Iuvenalia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problems
John Donne, 1633
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Lot 93
The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People called...
William Sewel, 1728; the first work from Ben Franklin's new press
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Lot 94
The Charters of the Province of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia
Printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1742 [but 1743]; previously owned by Joseph
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Lot 95
The Charters of the Province of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia
Printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1742 [but 1743]
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Lot 96
Cicero's Cato Major
Printed by Ben Franklin, 1744
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Lot 97
An Act for Granting the Sum of Sixty thousand Pounds to the King's Use
London, 1755
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Lot 98
The Liberty of the Spirit and of the Flesh Distinguished: in an Address to...
John Rutty, 1759; printed by Benjamin Franklin
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Lot 99
Group of five Ben Franklin Imprints
Philadelphia, 1757-1760
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Lot 100
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon, 1776-1788
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Lot 101
An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South Carolina
Sophia Hume, 1747
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Lot 102
The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur King of...
Thomas Malory, 1634
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Lot 103
Miscellaneous Poems
Andrew Marvell, 1681
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Lot 104
Epigrammata antiquae urbis
Jacobus Mazzocchius, 1521; Charles I's copy
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Lot 105
Eikonoklastes and Pro populo Anglicano defensio
John Milton, 1649 and 1651
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Lot 106
Paradise Lost
John Milton, 1668; first issue title
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Lot 107
Paradise Lost, third issue title
John Milton, 1669
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Lot 108
Paradise Regain'd
John Milton, 1671
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Lot 109
Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions
John Milton, 1673
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Lot 110
Collected works of Thomas More in Latin
Basel, 1563
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Lot 111
The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience Once More Briefly Debated &...
William Penn, 1671
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Lot 112
A Reply to a Pretended Answer by a Nameless Author to W.P.'s Key : in which the...
William Penn, 1695
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Lot 113
Two parliamentary acts defending religious freedom
British Parliament, 1696 and 1715
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Lot 114
The Second Folio
William Shakespeare, 1632
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Lot 115
The Historie of Henry the Fourth
William Shakespeare, 1639
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Lot 116
The Fourth Folio
William Shakespeare, 1685
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Lot 117
A Collection of Poems
William Shakespeare, 1709
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Lot 118
A Collection of Poems
William Shakespeare, 1709-1711
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Lot 119
A Collection of Prints from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating...
William Shakespeare, 1803
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Lot 120
The Works
William Shakespeare, 1853-1865
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Lot 121
Colins Clouts Come home againe
Edmund Spenser, 1595
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Lot 122
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser, 1590-1596; Bradley Martin copy
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Lot 123
The Faerie Queene: The Shepheard's Calendar: together with the other works of...
Edmund Spenser, 1611-13 and later
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Lot 124
Letters Concerning the English Nation
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1733
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Lot 125
Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Blackstone, 1765-1769
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