Christies: Rare Science Duplicates, resulting from the merger of the University of Chicago Library and the John Crerar Library., 6535,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 02, 1994 - July 02, 1994
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bibliothèque Physico-Economique instructive et amusante | Paris | 1783-91 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 99.00 | |
| 2 | BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691) | Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Philosophy | Oxford | 1663 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 3 | BOYLE, Robert | A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things | London | 1688 |
GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | 264.00 |
| 4 | BOYLE, Robert | Experiments, Notes, &c. about the Mechanical Origine or Production of divers particular Qualities | London | 1675 |
GBP 400.00 - 700.00 | 308.00 |
| 5 | BOYLE, Robert | Experiments, Notes, &c. about the Mechanical Origine or Production of divers particular Qualities | London | 1676 |
GBP 400.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 6 | BOYLE, Robert | Introductio ad Historiam Qualitatum Particularium | Geneva | 1680 |
GBP - | 16.50 |
| 7 | BUONANNI, Filippo (1638-1725) | Musaeum Kircherianum sive Musaeum A.P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis fesu iam pridem incoeptum | Rome | 1709 |
GBP 300.00 - 600.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 8 | DUTENS, Louis | Recherches sur l'Origine des Découvertes attribuées aux Modernes | Paris | 1766 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 22.00 |
| 9 | EULER, Leonhard (1707-1783) | Briefe iiber verschiedene Gegen-stände aux der Naturlehre | Leipzig | 1792-94 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | EULER, Leonhard | Opuscula varii argumentii | Berlin | 1746-51 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 |
| 11 | EULER, Leonhard | Opuscula varii argumenti | Berlin | 1746-51 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 440.00 |
| 12 | FERGUSON, James | Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics and Optics | London | 1764 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 99.00 |
| 13 | FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-90) | Oeuvres | Paris | 1773 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 330.00 |
| 14 | HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769-1859) | Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung | Stuttgart and Tübingen | 1845-62 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 440.00 |
| 15 | LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste (1744-1829) | Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux Faits Physiques | Paris | 1794 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 77.00 |
| 16 | LIBES, Antoine | Histoire Philosophique des Progres de la Physique | Paris and The Hague | 1810-13 |
GBP - | 110.00 |
| 17 | MACBRIDE, David (1726-1778) | Experimental Essays on Medical and Philosophical Subjects | London | 1767 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 110.00 |
| 18 | MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius (fl. early fifth century A.D.) | Opera: accedimi notae integrae Isacii Pontani, Joh. Meursii, Jacobi Gronovii | Leiden | 1670 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
| 19 | MAYOW, John (1641-1679) | Opera Omnia Medico-Physica, tractatibus quinque comprehensa | The Hague | 1681 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 385.00 |
| 20 | NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727) | Opera quae exstant omnia | London | 1779-85 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 209.00 |
| 21 | NEWTON, Isaac | Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica | Lausanne & Geneva | 1744 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 418.00 |
| 22 | PETRUCCI, Gioseffo | Prodromo Apologetico alli Studi Chircheriani | Amsterdam | 1677 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 364.00 |
| 23 | PORTA, Giambattista (1536-1615) | Natural Magick in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences | London | 1658 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | 660.00 |
| 24 | ROZIER, François | Introduction aux observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle, et sur les arts | Paris | 1777 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 176.00 |
| 25 | Sammlung von Naturund Medicin-wie auch hierzu gehoerigen Kunst-und Literatur-Geschichten | Breslau | 1718-27 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 187.00 | |
| 26 | SCHOTT, Gaspar (1608-1666) | Organum Mathematicum libris IX explicatum | Würzburg | 1668 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 1,540.00 |
| 27 | STENO, Nicolaus (1636-1686) | Opera Philosophica | Copenhagen | 1910 |
GBP - | 187.00 |
| 28 | TILLOCH, Alexander (1759-1825) | The Philosophical Magazine, comprehending the various branches of science, the liberal & fine arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce | London | 1798-?1801 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
| 29 | TORRE, Giovanni Maria della | Scienza della Natura Generale | Naples | 1774-78 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 462.00 |
| 30 | VALLISNIERI, Antonio (1661-1730) | Considerazioni ed Esperienze intorno alla Generazione de' Vermi ordinari del corp umano fatta da Antonio Vallisnieri e da lui scritte al D. Antonio Borromeo | Padua | 1710 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 187.00 |
| 31 | VALLISNIERI, Antonio | Opere Fisico-Mediche | Venice | 1733 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 396.00 |
| 32 | VENUSTI, Antonio Maria | Discorso Generale | Venice | 1562 |
GBP 180.00 - 250.00 | 308.00 |
| 33 | WILKINS, John (1614-72) | The Mathematical and Philosophical Works | London | 1708 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 242.00 |
| 34 | ADAMS, John Couch (1819-1892) | An Explanation of the observed irregularities in the motion of Uranus, on the hypothesis of disturbances caused by a more distant planet | London | 1846 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 35 | BAILLY, Jean Sylvain (1736-1793) | Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne, depuis son origine jusqu'a l'établissement de l'école d'Alexandrie | Paris | 1781 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 220.00 |
| 36 | BESSEL, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846) | Astronomische Untersu-chungen | Kõnigsberg | 1841-42 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 308.00 |
| 37 | ESSEL, Friedrich Wilhelm | Fundamenta Astronomiae pro anno MDCCLV, deducta ex observationibus viri incomparabilis James Bradley in specula astronomica Grenovicensi per annos 1750-1762 institutis | Kõnigsberg | 1818 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 352.00 |
| 38 | BPAHE, Tycho (1546-1601) | Astronomiae instauratae Mechanica | Nuremberg | 1602 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,740.00 |
| 39 | CASSINI DE THURY, César François (1714-1784) | La Meridienne de l'Observatoire Royal de Paris, verifiée dans toute l'étendue du Royaume par de nouvelles observations | Paris | 1744 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 220.00 |
| 40 | COMMISSIONERS OF LONGITUDE | Cambridge | 1772 |
GBP - | 176.00 | |
| 41 | COPERNICUS, Nicolaus (1473-1543) | Astronomia Instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui de Revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribuntur | Amsterdam | 1617 |
GBP 250.00 - 450.00 | 462.00 |
| 42 | DORTOUS DE MAIRAN, Jean Jacques (1678-1771) | Traité Physique et Historique de l'Aurore Boréale | Paris | 1733 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 176.00 |
| 43 | DORTOUS DE MAIRAN, Jean Jacques | Traité Physique et Historique de l'Aurore Boréale | Paris | 1754 |
GBP 250.00 - 450.00 | 308.00 |
| 44 | EULER, Leonhard | Theoria Motuum Planetarum et Cometarum | Berlin | 1744 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 935.00 |
| 45 | FONTANA, Franciscus (d. 1656) | Novae Coelestium Terrestriumque Rerum Observationes | Naples | 1646 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 3,960.00 |
| 46 | FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757) | Conversations of the Plurality of Worlds | London | 1715 |
GBP - | 66.00 |
| 47 | GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) | Dialogo ... sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano | Florence | 1632 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 4,840.00 |
| 48 | GALILEI, Galileo | Dialogo ... sopra i due massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano | Naples | 1710 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 605.00 |
| 49 | GALILEI, Galileo | Il Saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella Libra Astronomica e Filosofica di Lotario Sarsi | Rome | 1623 |
GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | 2,420.00 |
| 50 | GALILEI, Galileo | Elogio del Galileo | Livorno | 1775 |
GBP - | 55.00 |
| 51 | GAMACHES, Etienne Simon de | Astronomie Physique ou Principes Généraux de la Nature, appliqués au mecanisme astronomique et comparés aux principes de la philosophie de M. Newton | Paris | 1740 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 242.00 |
| 52 | GASSENDI, Pierre (1592-1655) | Institutio Astronomica ... cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei nuntius sidereus, et fohannis Kepleri dioptrice | London | 1653 |
GBP 250.00 - 450.00 | 935.00 |
| 53 | GASSENDI, Pierre | The Mirrour of True Nobility & Gentility, being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk | London | 1657 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 242.00 |
| 54 | GASSENDI, Pierre | Viri Illustris Nicolai Claudii Fabricii de Peiresc | The Hague | 1655 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 220.00 |
| 55 | GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) | Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium | Hamburg | 1809 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | 990.00 |
| 56 | GREGORY, David (1659-1708) | Astronomiae, physicae & geome-tricae elementa | Oxford | 1702 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 385.00 |
| 57 | HALLEY, Edmund (1656-1743) | Tables Astronomiques ... pour les planetes et les cometes | Paris | 1759 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 58 | HANSEN, Peter Andreas (1795-1874) | Darlegung der theoretischen Berechnung der in den Mondtafeln angewandten Storungen | Leipzig | 1862 |
GBP - | 49.00 |
| 59 | HERSCHEL, William (1738-1822) | Ueber den Bau des Himmels | Koenigsberg | 1791 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 286.00 |
| 60 | HEVELIUS, Johannes (1611-1687) | Mercurius in sole visus Gedani, anno christiano MDCLXI, d. III Maji | Danzig | 1662 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 3,300.00 |
| 61 | HOLYWOOD, John | In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius | Rome | 1570 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 770.00 |
| 62 | HOLYWOOD, John | Annotationi [by M. Mauro] sopra la lettione della Spera del Sacro Bosco | Florence | 1550 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 462.00 |
| 63 | HUYGENS, Christiaan (1629-1695) | The Celestial Worlds Discover'd; or, Conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets ... second edition | London | 1722 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 242.00 |
| 64 | JUAN, Jorge (1713-1773) & Antonio de ULLOA (1716-1795) | Observaciones Astronomicas, y Phisicas, hechas de Orden de S. Mag. en los Reynos del Perù .. de las quales se deduce la figura y magnitud de la Tierra y se aplica a la navegacion | Madrid | 1748 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 220.00 |
| 65 | KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630) | Epistolae ad Joannem Kepplerum ... scriptae insertis ad easdem responsionibus Kepplerianis, quotquot hactenus reperiri potuerunt | Frankfurt | 1718 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 3,520.00 |
| 66 | KEPLER, Johannes | Harmonices Mundi libri V. | 1619 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 10,450.00 | |
| 67 | KEPLER, Johannes | Tabulae Rudolphinae. Quibus astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae restauratio continentur | Ulm | 1627 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 22,000.00 |
| 68 | KEPLER, Johannes | Ad Vitellionem Paralipomena quibus Astronomiae Pars Optica traduitur | Frankfurt | 1604 |
GBP 450.00 - 750.00 | 1,980.00 |
| 69 | LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de (1701-1774) | Journal du Voyage fait par ordre du roi a l'équateur, servant d'introduction historique a la mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien | Paris | 1751 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 308.00 |
| 70 | LALANDE, Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançais de (1732-1807) | Exposition du Calcul Astronomique | Paris | 1762 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
| 71 | LAPLACE, Pierre Simon(1749-1827) | Exposition du Systême du Monde | Paris | 1796 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 176.00 |
| 72 | LAPLACE, Pierre Simon | Traité de Mécanique Céleste | Paris | 1799 |
GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | 1,760.00 |
| 73 | LAPLACE, Pierre Simon | Mécanique Céleste, translated with a commentary by Nathaniel Bowditch | Boston | 1829-39 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 438.00 |
| 74 | MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio (1555-1617) | Novae Coelestium Orbium Theoricae congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici | Venice | 1589 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 495.00 |
| 75 | MANILIUS, Marcus | The Five Books of Marcus Manilus ... done into English verse | London | 1697 |
GBP - | 242.00 |
| 76 | MARINONI, Giovanni Jacopo de (1616-1755) | De Astronomica Specula Domestica et Organico Apparatu Astronomico libri duo | Vienna | 1745 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 5,500.00 |
| 77 | MOXON, Joseph | A Tutor to Astronomy & Geography; or, The Use of the Copernican Spheres | London | 1665 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 264.00 |
| 78 | MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552) | Compositio Horologiorum, in plano, muro, truncis, anulo, concavo, cylindro et variis quadrantibus, cum signorum zodiaci et diversarum horarum inscriptionibus | Basle | 1531 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,200.00 |
| 79 | NOCETI, Carlo | L'Iride e l'Aurora Boreale, descritte in verso Latino ... e tradotte in verso Toscano dal Antonio Ambrogi | Florence | 1755 |
GBP - | 49.00 |
| 80 | OLYMPIODORUS | In Meteora Aristotelis Commentarii | Venice | 1551 |
GBP - | 176.00 |
| 81 | PEURBACH, Georg (1423-1461) | Novae Theoricae Planetarum | colophon: Venice | 1551 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 528.00 |
| 82 | SCHUBERT, Friedrich Theodor (1758-1825) | Theoretische Astronomie | St. Petersburg | 1798 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 77.00 |
| 83 | SOCIETAS METEOROLOGICAE PALATINAE | Ephemerides. Historia et Observationes anni 1781 | Mannheim | 1783 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 84 | STOEFFLER, Johann (1452-1531) | Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii | Paris | 1553 |
GBP 140.00 - 240.00 | 286.00 |
| 85 | STREETE, Thomas (1622-1689) | Astronomia Carolina, with exact and most easy rules for the calculation of eclipses ... to which is added a series of observations on the planets, chiefly of the moon | London | 1716 |
GBP - | 264.00 |
| 86 | WHISTON, William (1667-1752) | A New Theory of the Earth | London | 1696 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 286.00 |
| 87 | WRIGHT, Thomas | An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, founded upon the laws of nature and solving by mathematical principles the general phaenomena of the visible creation, and particularly the Via Lactea | London | 1750 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | 3,960.00 |
| 88 | ZACH, Franz Xaver von (1754-1832) | Tabulae Motuum Solis novae et correctae, ex theoria gravitatis et observationibus recentissimis erutae | Gotha | 1792 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 242.00 |
| 89 | BAUME Antoine (1728-1804) | Chymie Expérimentale et Raisonné | Paris | 1773 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 90 | BECHER, Johann Joachim (1635-1682) | Physica Subterranea Profundam Genesin, e principis hucusque ignotis, ostendens | Leipzig | 1738 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 242.00 |
| 91 | BERTHOLLET, Claude Louis (1748-1822) | Essai de Statique Chimique | Paris | 1803 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 92 | BERZELIUS, Jons Jacob (1779-1848) | Lehrbuch der Chemie | Dresden & Leipzig | 1833-41 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 71.00 |
| 93 | BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668-1738) | Elements of Chemistry, being the annual lectures of.... | London | 1735 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 253.00 |
| 94 | BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691) | The Aerial Noticula; or, Some new phenomena and a process of a factitious self-shining substance | London | 1680 |
GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 95 | BOYLE, Robert | Certain Physiological Essays | London | 1661 |
GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 96 | BOYLE, Robert | Tracts ... containing new experiments touching the relation betwixt flame and air | London | 1672 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | 605.00 |
| 97 | DALTON, John (1766-1844) | A New System of Chemical Philosophy | Manchester | 1808-10 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 880.00 |
| 98 | FOURCROY, Antoine François de (1755-1809) | Philosophie Chimique; ou Vérités fondamentales de la chimie moderne | Paris | 1794-95 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 55.00 |
| 99 | FOURCROY, Antoine François de | Systême des Connaissances Chimiques et de leurs applications aux phénomènes de la Nature et de l'Art | Paris | 1800 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 100 | FOURCROY, Antoine François de | Systême des Connaissances Chimiques, et de leurs applications aux phénomènes de la Nature et de l'Art | Paris | 1800 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 187.00 |
