Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS and HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, SEAL,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 25, 1956 - June 25, 1956
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Waller | Accademia del Cimento | 1684 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 2 | Adams (G.) | Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy | GBP - | 5.00 | ||
| 3 | Agrippa (H. C.) | Paradox sur I'incertitude | GBP - | 5.00 | ||
| 4 | Agrippa (H. C.) | Three books of Occult Philosophy | GBP - | 36.00 | ||
| 5 | Agrippa (H. C.) | The vanity of arts and sciences | 1684 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 6 | [Girolamo Ruscelli] | Alessio | 1615-14 |
GBP - | 20.00 | |
| 7 | [Girolamo Ruscelli] | Alessio | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 8 | Ango (Pierre) | L'optique | Paris | 1682 |
GBP - | 17.00 |
| 9 | Arduser (Johann) | Geometriae theoricae et practicae | Zurich | 1627 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 10 | Kurze und deutliche Verstellung der edlen Probierkunst | Nuremberg | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 11 | Babington (John) | Pyrotechnia | 1635 |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 12 | Bacon (Sir F.) | Sylva sylvarum | GBP - | 5.00 | ||
| 13 | Bacon (Roger) | L'admirable pouvoir et puissance de l'art et de nature | 1629 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 14 | Baker (H.) | The Microscope made easy | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 15 | Bayle (P.) | Miscellaneous reflections occasioned by the comet which appeared in Dec. 1680 | GBP - | 8.50 | ||
| 16 | Barchusen (J. C.) | Pyrosophia | 1698 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 17 | Barrington (Daines) | Miscellanies | 1781 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 18 | [Barrow (J.)] | Dictionarium polygraphicum | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 19 | Bartoli (C.) | Del modo di misurare la distantie | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 20 | Basil Valentine, with Annotations by T. Kirkringius [translated by R. Russell] | Basil Valentine. His triumphant chariot of Antimony | 1678 |
GBP - | 18.00 | |
| 21 | Kerckring (Theodor) | Basilius Valentinus | Amsterdam | 1671 |
GBP - | 6.50 |
| 22 | Benzenberg (J.F.) | Versuche uber die Umdrehung der Erde | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 23 | Bernoulli (D.) | Hydrodynamica | Strassburg | 1738 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
| 24 | Besson (J.) | Theatre des instrumens mathematiques et mechaniques | Lyon | 1579 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
| 25 | Biographies of scientists | GBP - | 52.00 | |||
| 26 | Bion (N.) | Traite de la construction et des principaux des instrumens de mathematique | The Hague | 1723 |
GBP - | 9.00 |
| 27 | Bockler (G. A.) | Treatrum machinarum novum exhibens opera molaria et aquatica constructum industria G. A. Bockleri | Nuremberg | 1662 |
GBP - | 18.00 |
| 28 | Bohun (R.) | A discourse concerning the origine and properties of wind | Oxford | 1671 |
GBP - | 8.00 |
| 29 | [Booth or Barlow (E.)] | Meteorological essays | 1715 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 30 | Borelli (G. A.) | De motu animalium | GBP - | 9.00 | ||
| 31 | Bouguer (Q.) | Traite d'optique publie par M. L'Abbe de la Caille | GBP - | 15.00 | ||
| 32 | Boyle (Robert) | Works | 1772 |
GBP - | 16.00 | |
| 33 | Boyle (R.) | The origine of formes and qualities | Oxford | 1666 |
GBP - | 8.50 |
| 34 | Boyle (R.) | Certain physiological essays and other tracts | 1669 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 35 | Boyle (R.) | Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy | Oxford | 1663, 1671 |
GBP - | 18.00 |
| 36 | Boyle (R.) | An essay about the origine and virtues of gems | 1672 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 37 | Boyle (R.) | Essays of the strange subtility | 1673 |
GBP - | 27.00 | |
| 38 | Boyle (R.) | Experiments | 1675 |
GBP - | 19.00 | |
| 39 | Boyle (R.) | An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion | 1685 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 40 | Brewster (Sir D.) | Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 41 | Burnet (G.) | A defence of natural and revealed religion | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 42 | Capello (A.) | Astrosophinae numericae supplementum | Venice | 1737 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 43 | Castelli (P.) | Incendio del Monte Vesuvio | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 44 | Caus (Isaac de) | New and rare inventions of water-works | 1659 |
GBP - | 26.00 | |
| 45 | Cellier (Elizabeth) | Malice defeated [Wing, C 1661] | 1680 |
GBP - | 8.50 | |
| 46 | Chelucci (P.) | Institutions analyticae earumque usus in geometria | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 47 | Cosmographie (La) | [c. 1620] |
GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 48 | Cotes (R.) | Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures | GBP - | 7.50 | ||
| 49 | Cramer (Gabriel) | Introduction a l'analyse des lignes courbes algebriques | Geneva | 1750 |
GBP - | 9.00 |
| 50 | Dalton (John) | Meteorological observations and essays | 1793 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 51 | DALTON (JOHN) | A new system of chemical philosophy | Manchester | 1808-10-27 |
GBP - | 68.00 |
| 52 | [Daniel (Gabriel)] | Voiage du monde de Descartes | GBP - | 5.00 | ||
| 53 | De Moivre (A.) | Annuities upon lives | GBP - | 6.50 | ||
| 54 | De Morgan (A.) | Arithmetical books | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 55 | D[erham] (W.) | The artificial clock-maker | 1714 |
GBP - | 8.50 | |
| 56 | Desaguliers (J. T.) | A system of experimental philosophy | 1719 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 57 | Desaguliers (J. T.) | A course of experimental philosophy | 1734-44 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 58 | Desaguliers (J. T.) | Physico-mechanical lectures | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 59 | Desaguliers (J. T.) | Cours de physique experimental | GBP - | 11.00 | ||
| 60 | Descartes (Rene) | Les principes de la philosophie | Paris | 1647 |
GBP - | 18.00 |
| 61 | Descartes (Rene) | Les passions de l'ame | a Amsterdam, et se vendent a Paris | 1651 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 62 | Descartes (R.) | Lettres | Paris | 1667, '66, '67 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 63 | Descartes (R.) | Principia philosophiae | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 64 | [Des Maizeaux] | Recueil de diverses pieces | GBP - | 5.00 | ||
| 65 | Digby (Sir Kenelm) | Two treatises | 1645 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 66 | DIGGES (LEONARD) | A GEOMETRICAL PRACTICAL TREATIZE NAMED PANTOMETRIA | London | 1591 |
GBP - | 78.00 |
| 67 | Dircks (H.) | The life | 1865 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 68 | Dircks (H.) | Worcesteriana | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 69 | Dobell (C.) | Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his "little animals," | [1932] |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 70 | Dodgson (C. L.) | An elementary treatise on determinants | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 71 | Dupleix (S.) | La curiosite naturelle | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 72 | Euclid | Euclide.solo introduttore delle scientie mathematice diligentemente reassettato.per.Nicolo Tartalea | Venice | 1543 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 73 | Euclid | La prospettiva di Euclide | Florence | 1573 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 74 | Euclid | De gli elementi d'Euclide libri quindici | Urbino | 1575 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
| 75 | Euclid | Euclidis elementorum libri XV | GBP - | 4.50 | ||
| 76 | Euler (L.) | Introduction a l'analyse infinitesimale | Paris | 1796-7 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 77 | Faraday (M.) | Diary | 1932-36 |
GBP - | 10.50 | |
| 78 | FINE (O.) | A collection of six works | 1550-53 |
GBP - | 48.00 | |
| 79 | Fontenelle (B. le B. de) | Conversations on the plurality of worlds | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 80 | Fontenelle (B. le B. de) | Conversations on the plurality of worlds | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 81 | Franklin (Benjamin) | New experiments and observations on electricity | 1760-54 |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 82 | Franklin (B.) | Experiments and observations on electricity | 1769 |
GBP - | 14.00 | |
| 83 | Franklin (B.) | Political | 1779 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 84 | Freind (John) | Chymical lectures | 1712 |
GBP - | 20.00 | |
| 85 | Fuller (T.) | The history of the Worthies of England | 1662 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 86 | GALILEI (G.) | ISTORIA E DIMOSTRAZIONI INTORNO ALLE MACCHIE SOLARI E LORO ACCIDENTI | Rome | 1613 |
GBP - | 100.00 |
| 87 | Galilei (G.) | Il Saggiatore | Rome | 1623 |
GBP - | 40.00 |
| 88 | Galilei (G.) | Systema cosmicum | 1663 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 89 | Gassendus (P.) | Institutio astronomica | GBP - | 12.00 | ||
| 90 | Ganger (N.) | La mecanique du feu | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 91 | GESNER (CONRAD) AND EDWARD TOPSELL | The history of four- footed beasts and serpents | 1658 |
GBP - | 34.00 | |
| 92 | [Gesner (C.)] | Tesauro di Evonomo Filatro de rimedi secreti | Venice | 1560 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 93 | Gilbert (William) | De mundo nostra sublunari philosophia nova | Amsterdam | 1651 |
GBP - | 34.00 |
| 94 | Gilbert (W.) | On the loadstone | 1893 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 95 | Gilbert (W.) | On the magnet [the Gilbert Club translation by S. P. Thompson and others] | 1900-01 |
GBP - | 20.00 | |
| 96 | Gilbert (W.) | Notes on the De Magnete | 1901 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 97 | Glanvill (J.) | The vanity of dogmatizing | 1661 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 98 | Glanvill (J.) | Scepsis Scientifica | 1665 |
GBP - | 19.00 | |
| 99 | Glanvill (J.) | Plus ultra | 1668 |
GBP - | 15.00 | |
| 100 | Glanvill (J.) | Essays on several important subjects in philosophy and religion | 1676 |
GBP - | 12.00 |
