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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | BOYLE, Robert | New Experiments Physico-Mechanical touching the air ... wherunto is added a defence of the author's explication of the experiments against the objections of Franciscus Linus and Thomas Hobbes | Oxford: by H. Hall for Tho | 1662 |
GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | 4,400.00 |
| 202 | BOYLE, Robert | A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The I Part | Oxford | 1669 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 770.00 |
| 203 | BOYLE, Robert | The Philosophical Works ... abridged, methodiz'd ... by Peter Shaw | London | 1738 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 242.00 |
| 204 | BOYLE, Robert | The Works ... epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton | London | 1699-1700 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 205 | BOYLE, Robert | The Works ...to which is prefixed the life of the author | London | 1772 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 330.00 |
| 206 | BOYLE, Robert--BIRCH, Thomas | The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle | London | 1744 |
GBP - | 33.00 |
| 207 | CHLADNI, Ernst Florens Friedrich (1756-1827) | Die Akustik | Leipzig | 1802 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 418.00 |
| 208 | CIMENTO, Accademia del | Saggi di Naturali Esperienze | Florence | 1666 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 825.00 |
| 209 | CIMENTO, Accademia del | Saggi di Naturali Esperienze | Florence | 1691 |
GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | 165.00 |
| 210 | CIMENTO, Accademia del | Saggi di Naturali Esperienze ... preceduta da notizie storiche dell'academia stessa | Florence | 1841 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 22.00 |
| 211 | COULOMB, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806) | Mémoires sur l'Electricité et le Magnétisme | Paris | c. 1791 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 3,520.00 |
| 212 | CURIE, Pierre (1859-1906), Marie CURIE (1867-1934) & Gustave BEMONT | "Sur une nouvelle substance fortement radioactive, contenue dans la pechblende," in Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (pp. 1215-1217) | Paris | 1898 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 99.00 |
| 213 | D'ALENCE, Joachim (1640-1707) | Traité de l'Aiman | Amsterdam | 1687 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 440.00 |
| 214 | DALTON, John (1766-1844) | Meteorological Observations and Essays | London | 1793 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 88.00 |
| 215 | DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus (1683-1744) | Lectures of Experimental Philosophy, wherein the principles of mechanicks, hydrostaticks and opticks, are demonstrated ... to which is added a description of Mr. Rowley's machine called the Orrery | London | 1719 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 550.00 |
| 216 | EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) | Ather und Relativitätstheorie, rede gehalten am 5. Mai Í920 an der Reichs-Universität zu Leiden | Berlin | 1920 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 143.00 |
| 217 | FERGUSON, James (1710-1776) | An Introduction to Electricity | London | 1770 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 770.00 |
| 218 | GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) | Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche intorno à due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali | Leiden | 1638 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 15,400.00 |
| 219 | GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) & Wilhelm WEBER (1804--1891, editors) | Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des magnetischen Vereins im Jahre 1836 [-43] | Göttingen, Leipzig | 1843; 1837 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 640.00 |
| 220 | GIBBS, Josiah Willard (1839-1903) | On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances," in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences | New Haven | 1876-78 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | 330.00 |
| 221 | GOAD, John | Astro-Meteorologia; or Aphorisms and discourses of the Bodies Coelestial | London | 1686 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 |
| 222 | GILBERT, William (1544-1603) | De Magnete, magneticisque corporibus et de mago magnete tellure; Physiologa nova, plurimis & experimentis demonstrata | London | 1600 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 5,500.00 |
| 223 | GREGORY, James (1638-1675) | Optica Promota, seu abdita radiorum reflexorum & refractorum mysteria, geometrice enucleata | London | 1663 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,540.00 |
| 224 | GUERICKE, Otto von (1602-1686) | Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio | Amsterdam | 1672 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 7,480.00 |
| 225 | HAUKSBEE, Francis (ca. 1666-1713) | Physico-Mechanical Experiments on various subjects. Containing an account of several surprising phenomena touching light and electricity | London | 1709 |
GBP 250.00 - 450.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 226 | HAUY, René-Just (1743-1822) | Exposition Raisonnée de la Théorie de l'Electricité et du Magnétisme | Paris | 1787 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 330.00 |
| 227 | HELIODORUS | of Larissa. Capita Opticorum | Pistoria | 1758 |
GBP - | 264.00 |
| 228 | HERTZ, Heinrich (1857-1894) | Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbrei-tung der Elektrischen Kraft | Leipzig | 1892 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | 1,210.00 |
| 229 | KEIL, John (1671-1721) | An Introduction to Natural Philosophy; or, Philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford, anno dom. 1700 ... translated from the last edition of the Latin | London | 1720 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 187.00 |
| 230 | KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630) | Dioptrice seu Demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter Conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt | Augsburg | 1611 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 14,850.00 |
| 231 | KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680) | Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica opus tripartitim ... editio tertia | Rome | 1654 |
GBP 400.00 - 700.00 | 715.00 |
| 232 | KIRCHER, Athanasius | Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae in decern libros digesta | Rome | 1646 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 1,980.00 |
| 233 | LAMBERT, Johann Heinrich (1728-1777) | Pyrometrie oder vom Maasse des Feuers und der Warme | Berlin | 1779 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 550.00 |
| 234 | MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879) | A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism | Oxford | 1873 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 |
| 235 | METEOROLOGY--D'ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond (1717-1783) | Reflexions sur la Cause Generale des Vents | Paris | 1747 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 242.00 |
| 236 | NEWTON, Isaac | Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures | London | 1704 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,860.00 |
| 237 | NEWTON, Isaac | Opticks: or a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light | London | 1717 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 440.00 |
| 238 | NEWTON, Isaac | Opticks | London | 1721 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 682.00 |
| 239 | NEWTON, Isaac | Traité d'Optique | Amsterdam | 1720 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 418.00 |
| 240 | NEWTON, Isaac | Optique de Newton | Paris | 1787 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 308.00 |
| 241 | NEWTON, Isaac | Optical Lectures read in the Publick Schools of the University of Cambridge, anno domini 1669 | London | 1728 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 935.00 |
| 242 | NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727) | Lectiones Opticae | London | 1729 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 880.00 |
| 243 | OHM, Georg Simon (1789-1854) | Die galvanische Kette, mathema--tisch bearbeitet | Berlin | 1827 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,850.00 |
| 244 | PRIESTLEY, Joseph (1733-1804) | The History and Present State of Electricity with original experiments | London | 1767 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 330.00 |
| 245 | RUTHERFORD, Ernest (1871-1937) | Radio-Activity | Cambridge | 1904 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 242.00 |
| 246 | SCHEINER, Christoph (1573-1650) | Refractiones Coelestes, sive solis elliptici phaenomenon illustratum | Ingolstadt | 1617 |
GBP 180.00 - 250.00 | 748.00 |
| 247 | SCHWERD, Friedrich Magnus | Die Beugungserscheinungen aus den Fundamentalgesetzen der Undulationstheorie Analytische entwickelt und in Bildern dargestellt | Mannheim | 1835 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 572.00 |
| 248 | SELVA, Lorenzo (d. 1799) | Sei Dialoghi Ottici Teorico-Pratici | Venice | 1787 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 495.00 |
| 249 | SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Jean René. (1740-1810) | Description et Usage d'un cabinet de Physique Experimentale | Paris | 1775 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 2,640.00 |
| 250 | SMYTH, Henry de Wolf | A General Account of the development of methods of using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945 | 1945 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 748.00 | |
| 251 | SMYTH, Henry de Wolf | A General Account of the development of methods of using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945 | Washington | 1945 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 110.00 |
| 252 | TAISNIER, Joannes | Opusculum Perpetua Memoria Dignissimum, de natura magnetis, et eius effectibus | Cologne | 1562 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 1,870.00 |
| 253 | VITELLIO | [Optica] id est de natura, ratione, & proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum atque formarum, quam vulgo Perspectivam vocant, libri X. | Nuremberg | 1535 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 254 | VOLTA, Alessandro (1745-1827) | Lettere ... suïl' aria infiammabile nativa delle paludi | Milan | 1777 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 1,045.00 |
| 255 | WAITZ, Jacob Sigismund von | Abhandlung von der Electricitat | Berlin | 1745 |
GBP 250.00 - 450.00 | 275.00 |
| 256 | WELLS, William Charles (1757-1817) | An Essay on Dew and several appearances connected with it | London | 1814 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 242.00 |
| 257 | ALPINUS, Prosper | De Plantis Aegypti | Padua | (1638)--1640 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 825.00 |
| 258 | BIGELOW, Jacob | American Medical Botany | Boston | 1817-20 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 770.00 |
| 259 | BLACKWELL, Elizabeth | A Curious Herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick | London | 1739 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,420.00 |
| 260 | BLANCO, Manuel | Flora Filipinos | Manila | 1877-80 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 | 7,150.00 |
| 261 | COOKE, Mordecai Cubitt | Illustrations of British Fungi | London | 1881-91 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 605.00 |
| 262 | CORDA, August Karl Joseph | Pracht-Flora Europaeischer Schimmel--bildungen | Leipzig & Dresden | 1839 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 264.00 |
| 263 | CURTIS, William | The Botanical Magazine | London | 1790-1800 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 2,805.00 |
| 264 | DALECHAMPS, Jacques (1513-1588) | Histoire Generale des Plantes | Lyon | 1653 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 660.00 |
| 265 | DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) | The Power of Movement in Plants | London | 1880 |
GBP - | 286.00 |
| 266 | FORBES, James (1809-1868) | Salictum Woburnense: or a catalogue of willows, indigenous and foreign, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford | London | 1829 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,860.00 |
| 267 | FORSKAL, Petrus (1732-1763) | Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica, sive descriptiones plantarum quas per in Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit | Copenhagen | 1777 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 |
| 268 | FRIES, Elias Magnus (1794-1878) | Lichenographia Europaea Reformata | Lund | 1831 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 286.00 |
| 269 | FUCHS, Leonhart (1501-1566) | New Kreüterbuch | Basle | 1543 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 7,700.00 |
| 270 | GMELIN, Johann Georg (1709-1755) | Flora Sibirica | St. Peters burg | 1747-69 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | 1,980.00 |
| 271 | GMELIN, Samuel Gottlieb | Historia Fucorum | St. Petersburg | 1768 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 418.00 |
| 272 | GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712) | The Anatomy of Plants | London | 1682 |
GBP 350.00 - 550.00 | 770.00 |
| 273 | HALES, Stephen (1677-1761) | Vegetable Staticks | London | 1727 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 660.00 |
| 274 | HEDWIG, Johann | Theoria Generationis et Fructificationis Plantarum Cryptogamicarum | St. Petersburg | 1784 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 264.00 |
| 275 | HEDWIG, Johann (1730-1799) | Fundamentum Historiae Naturalis Muscorum Frondosorum | Leipzig | 1782 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 |
| 276 | HILL, John (1707-1775) | The British Herbal | London | 1756 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 605.00 |
| 277 | INGEN-HOUSZ, Jan (1730-1799) | Experiments upon Vegetables | London | 1779 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 |
| 278 | [JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von] (1727-1817) | Dreyhundert Ausserlesene Amerikanische Gewaechse nach Linnaeischer Ordnung | Nuremberg | 1785-88 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | 990.00 |
| 279 | JACQUIN, Nicolaus Joseph von | Miscellanea Austriaca ad Botanicam, Chemiam, et Historiam Naturalem Spectantia | Vienna | 1778-81 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 528.00 |
| 280 | JOHNSTONE, William Grosart & Alexander CROALL | The Nature Printed British Sea Weeds | London | 1859-60 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 176.00 |
| 281 | JUNG, Joachim (1587-1657) | Opuscula Botanico-Physica | Coburg | 1747 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 528.00 |
| 282 | KALCHBRENNER, Karl | ícones Selectae Hymenomycetum Hungar--iae | Budapest | 1873-77 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 418.00 |
| 283 | LINNAEUS, Carolus (1707-1778) | Hortus Cliffortianus | Amsterdam | 1737 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,300.00 |
| 284 | LINNAEUS, Carolus | Philosophia Botanica in qua Explicantur fundamenta Botanica cum definitionibus partium | Stockholm | 1751 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 209.00 |
| 285 | MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628-1694) | Anatome Plantarum | London | 1675-79 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 1,980.00 |
| 286 | MARTIUS, Karl Friedrich von (1794-1868) | Flora Brasiliensis | Munich, Vienna & Leipzig | 1840-1906 |
GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 12,100.00 |
| 287 | MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea (1501-1577) | New Kraüterbuch | Prague | 1563 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 880.00 |
| 288 | MICHELI, Pietro Antonio (1679-1737) | Nova Plantarum Genera | Florence | 1729 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 825.00 |
| 289 | MILLSPAUGH, Charles | American Medicinal Plants | New York & Philadelphia | 1882-87 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 440.00 |
| 290 | PALLAS, Peter Simon (1741-1811) | Flora Rossica | St. Petersburg | 1784-88 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,090.00 |
| 291 | PARKINSON, John (1567-1650) | Theatrum Botanicum, the theatre of plantes | London | 1640 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 1,540.00 |
| 292 | PAXTON, Joseph | Paxton's Magazine of Botany and register of flowering plants | London | 1834-39 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 293 | OERSTED, Anders Sandöe | L'Amerique Centrale. Recherches sur sa flore et sa géographie physique; resultats d'un voyage dans les Etats de Costa Rica et de Nicaragua executé pendant les années 1846-48 | Copenhagen | 1863 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 550.00 |
| 294 | RAY, John (1627-1705) | Historia Plantarum | London | 1686-87 |
GBP - | 209.00 |
| 295 | SARGENT, Charles Sprague | The Silva of North America | Boston & New York | 1892-1902 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 264.00 |
| 296 | SCHREBER, Johann Christian Daniel | Beschreibung der Grãser | Leipzig | 1769 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 143.00 |
| 297 | SPRENGEL, Kurt (1766-1833) | Geschichte der Botanik. Neu bearbeitet | Altenburg & Leipzig | 1817-18 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 132.00 |
| 298 | THRELKELD, Caleb | Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum ... being a short treatise of native plants, especially such as grow spontaneously in the vicinity of Dublin | Dublin | 1727 |
GBP 250.00 - 450.00 | 209.00 |
| 299 | THURET, Gustave (1817-1875) | Etudes Phycologiques | Paris | 1878 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 176.00 |
| 300 | ADAMS, George | Micrographia Illustrata | London | 1747 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 660.00 |