Swann Galleries: Medicine, Natural History, Science & Technology, featuring The Leonard Gottlieb Collection of Books on Navigation and Related Subjects with a selection of Navigating and Surveying Intruments., 1498,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 04, 1989 - May 04, 1989

Page Size: 444 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
454	LAMBERTI, VINCENZO	Statica degli Edifici.	Naples	1781	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
455	LANGLEY, S. P.	The New Astronomy.	Boston	1888	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
456	LA PRIMAUDAY, PIERRE DE	Nuova Academia Francese.	Venice	1610	USD 400.00 - 600.00	248.00
457	LEMNIUS, LEVINUS	Degli Occulti Miracoli, & Varii Ammaestramenti delle Cose della Natura.	Venice	1560	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
458	LEON Y GAMA, ANTONIO DE	Diario Astronomico y Suplemento al Calendario para el Ano de 1770 * Disertacion Fisica sobre la Materia y Formacion de las Auroras Boreales.	Mexico	1769; 1790	USD 100.00 - 200.00	110.00
459	LOVE, JOHN	Geodesia; or, The Art of Surveying and Measuring Land made Easy . . . Ninth Edition.	London	1771	USD 60.00 - 90.00	77.00
460	LYELL, CHARLES	Travels in North America; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.	London	1845	USD 200.00 - 300.00	413.00
461	MACQUER, PIERRE-JOSEPH	Elemens de Chymie-Pratique . . . Seconde Edition. 2 volumes * Elemens de Chymie-Theorique. 4 folding plates. Together, 3 volumes	Paris	1756	USD 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
462	MARCUCCI, LORENZO	Saggio Analitico-Chemico sopra i Colori Minerali e Mezzi di procurarsi gli Artefatti, gli Smalti, e le Vernici.	Rome	1813	USD 80.00 - 120.00	220.00
463	MARIOTTE, EDME	The Motion of Water and Other Fluids; being, A Treatise of Hydrostaticks.	London	1718	USD 80.00 - 120.00	220.00
464	MARTINELLI, DOMENICO	Horologi Elementari.	Venice	1669	USD 400.00 - 600.00	358.00
465	MAURY, MATTHEW F.	The Physical Geography of the Sea.	New York	1855	USD 250.00 - 350.00	193.00
466	MAXIM, SIR HIRAM	Artificial and Natural Flight.	London	1908	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
467		MEMOIRES DE MATHEMATIQUE ET DE PHYSIQUE, rediges a l'Observatoire de Marseille.	Avignon	1756	USD 80.00 - 120.00	44.00
469	(MEXICAN SCIENCE)	Group of 6 items, comprising one loose engraving and 5 volumes.	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	165.00
470	MINKOWSKI, HERMANN	Raum und Zeit. IN: Physikalische Zeitschrift, Volume 10, pages 104--11.	Leipzig	1909	USD 400.00 - 600.00	358.00
472	MORRI, GIUSEPPE	Group of 3 works published under the title II Perito in Romagna.	Faenza	1791--1794	USD 100.00 - 200.00	330.00
474	NERI, ANTONIO	L'Arte Vetraria.	Venice	1663	USD 200.00 - 300.00	121.00
475	(NEWTON, ISAAC.) Collin, John; et al.	Commercium epistolicum . . . de analysi promota, jussu Societatis Regiae in lucem editum.	London	1712	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,740.00
476	NICHOLSON, JOHN	The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist . . . Fourth Edition.	London	1853	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
477	NIEROP, DIRCK REMBRANTSZ. VAN	Nederduytsche Astronomia; dat is, Onderwijs van den Loop des Hemels . . . nu met den tweeden Druck, overghesien, verbetert ende vermeerdert.	Amsterdam	1658	USD 250.00 - 350.00	220.00
478	ODDI, MUZIO	Dello squadro trattato.	Milan	1625	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,760.00
478A	PAGAN, BLAISE FRANCOIS DE, Comte	La Theorie des Planetes.	Paris	1657	USD 500.00 - 750.00	358.00
479	PASCOLI, ALESSANDRO	Del moto che nei mobili si rifonde per impulso esteriore trattato fisico-matematico.	Rome	1723	USD 200.00 - 300.00	121.00
480	PICCOLOMINI, ALESSANDRO	L'Instrumento della Filosofia * Della Filosofia Naturale . . . Parte Prima.	Venice	1560	USD 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
481	PIKE, NICOLAS	A New and Complete System of Arithmetic, composed for the Use of the Citizens of the United States.	Newburyport	1788	USD 150.00 - 250.00	99.00
483	POMODORO, GIOVANNI	Geometria Prattica.	Rome	1603	USD 200.00 - 300.00	385.00
484	PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA	Magiae naturalis libri viginti.	Frankfurt am Main	1607	USD 150.00 - 250.00	99.00
485	PRACTICAL GEOMETRY	MANUSCRIPT IN ENGLISH, written in cursive script in brown ink, recto and verso, on laid paper.	Np	early 19th century	USD 100.00 - 200.00	220.00
487	PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS	De praedictionibus astronomicis.	Frankfurt am Main	1611	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
488	(RAILROADS)	Two volumes.	Milan, Rome	1837; 1846	USD 60.00 - 90.00	77.00
489	(REFERENCE)	Group of 4 volumes.	Vp	vd	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
490	REID, THOMAS	Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, Theoretical and Practical.	Philadelphia	1832	USD 80.00 - 120.00	165.00
491	RIO, ANDRES MANUEL DEL	Elementos de Orictognosia, o del Conocimiento de los Fosiles . . . segun los Principios de A. G. Werner . . . Primera Parte, que comprehende las Tierras, Piedras, y Sales.	Mexico	1795	USD 100.00 - 150.00	358.00
492	RUTHERFORD, ERNEST	Collision of [alpha] Particles with Light Atoms. IN: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Volume 37, number 222, pages [537]-587.	London	1919	USD 300.00 - 500.00	193.00
495	SCHMIDT, JOHANN JACOB	Biblischer Physicus; oder, Einleitung zur Biblischen Natur-Wissenschaft und deren besonderen Theilen.	Leipzig	1731	USD 80.00 - 120.00	88.00
496	SCHMIDT, JOHANN JACOB	Biblischer Mathematicus; oder, Erlaeuterung der Heil. Schrift aus den Mathematischen Wissenschaften . . . als ein Anhang ist beygefueget Herrn George Sarganecks Versuch einer Anwendung der Mathematic in dem Articul von der Groesse der Suenden-Schulden.	Zuellichau	1736	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
498	SMYTH, HENRY DEWOLF	Atomic Energy for Military Purposes.	Princeton	1945	USD 150.00 - 250.00	220.00
499	STRUVE, F. G. W.	Description de l'Observation Astronomique Central de Poulkova.	St. Petersburg	1845	USD 150.00 - 250.00	550.00
500	STURM, JOHANN CHRISTOPH	Collegii experimentalis, sive curiosi pars secunda.	Nuremberg	1685	USD 80.00 - 120.00	88.00
501	TALLIERI, GALPIDIO	Nuovo Plico d'Ogni Sorta di Tinture.	Venice	1780	USD 80.00 - 120.00	165.00
504	TOKEI-GI BENRAN [guide to clocks]	/book_records/243162	Tokyo	[1885]	USD 50.00 - 75.00	193.00
505	TURNOR, CHRISTOPHER HATTON	Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere.	London	1865	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
507	YOUNG, JOSEPH	A New Physical System of Astronomy . . . in which the Physical System of Sir Isaac Newton, is examined, and presumed to be refuted . . . to which is annexed, A Physiological Treatise . . . also, Successful Methods of curing Cancerous Ulcers [etc.]	New York	1800	USD 80.00 - 120.00	121.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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