Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana - bidstart 1/17, 22651, New York

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Auction Date
February 02, 2024 - February 02, 2024
Page Size: 218 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ARISTOTLE

Manuscript commentary on Aristotle's Physics

Pisa? late 1500s. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,276.00
2

ASTRONOMY -- Manuscript, "Traicte de l'Air,"

France c. 1630. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,410.00
3

ASTRONOMY -- Two gelatin silver print photographs, of Halley's comet and of the Milky Way,

early 20th century. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 882.00
4 BARNARD, Edward Emerson (1857-1923)

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way.

Washington 1927 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,024.00
5 BERNOULLI, Jacob (1654-1705)

Ars conjectandi. Edited by Nicolaus Bernoulli (1687-1759)

Basel 1713 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
6 BOLYAI, Farkas (1775-1856)

Kurzer Grundriss eines Versuchs I. Die Arithmetik [...] II. In der Geometrie.

Marosvasarhely 1851 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
7 BRUNFELS, Otto (1488-1534)

Theses seu communes loci, totius rei medicae. Item. De usu pharmacorum, deque artificio suppressam alvum ciendi, liber. Edited by Johannes Munterus.

Strasbourg 1532 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,386.00
8 CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576)

Opus Novum de proportionibus numerorum, motuum, ponderum, sonorum, aliarumque rerum mensurandarum, non solum geometrico more stabilitum, sed etiam variis experimentis & observationibus rerum in natura ... Artis Magnae, sive, de Regulis Algebraicis.

Basel 1570 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,024.00
9 CASATI, Paolo (1617-1707)

Mechanicorum libri octo.

Lyon 1684 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
10 CASSINI, Giovanni Domenico (1625-1712)

An important and coherent collection of manuscript notes and lunar tables, devoted to Cassini's study of the motions of the moon.

Bologna and Paris c.1651-1710. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 21,420.00
11 CASTELLI, Benedetto (1578-1643)

Alcuni opuscoli filosofici.

Bologna 1669 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,520.00
12 CATTRANI, Baldassare (fl. 1776-1810)

"Desmanthus cinereus" and "Tagetes erecta fl[ore] pl[eno] var."

c.1800. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,560.00
13 CHRISTMANN, Jacob (1554-1613)

Observationum solarium libri tres. In quibus explicatur verus motus solis in zodiaco: & universa doctrina triangulorum, ad rationes apparentium coelestium accommodatur.

Basel 1601 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,780.00
14 DE PAIVA, Antonio da Costa (1806-1879)

Monographia molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium insularium Maderensium.

Lisbon 1867 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 378.00
15 DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650)

Opuscula posthuma, physica et mathematica.

Amsterdam 1701 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
16 DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA (fl. 250 A.D.)

Rerum Arithmeticarum Libri sex -Liber de numeris Polygonis seu Multiangulis. Translated from the Greek into Latin and edited by Guilelmus Xylander (Wilhelm Holtzmann, 1532-1576)

Basel 1575 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,120.00
17 ERCKER, Lazarus (c.1530-1594)

Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Bergwercks Arten.

Frankfurt 1580 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 11,970.00
18 EUCLID (fl. c.300 B.C.)

Elementa geometriae. Translated from Arabic into Latin by Adelard of Bath and Robert of Chester. Edited by Giovanni Campano da Novara.

Venice 25 May 1482. USD 300,000.00 - 400,000.00 USD 403,200.00
19 EUCLID (fl. c.300 B.C.E.)

Euclide megarense philosopho: solo introduttore delle scientie mathematice diligentemente reassettato, et alla integrita ridotto per il degno professore di tal Scientie Nicolo Tartalea.

Venice 1543 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,520.00
20 [FERMAT, Pierre de (1607-1665)] -- DIOPHANTUS of Alexandria (fl. 3rd century CE)

Arithmeticorum libri sex, et de numeris multangulis liber unus. Cum commentariis C.G. Bacheti V.C. & observationibus D. P. de Fermat.

Toulouse 1670 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
21 FERMAT, Pierre de (1601-1665)

Varia opera mathematica. Edited by Clement-Samuel de Fermat.

Toulouse 1679 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 56,700.00
22 [FERMI, Enrico (1901-1954), and others.]

Method for Increasing the Efficiency of Nuclear Reactions and Products thereof (caption title) Patent number 465,045.

London 1937 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
23 GEMINUS, Thomas (1510-1562) and Andreas VESALIUS (1514-1564)

Compendiosa totius Anatomie delineatio aere exarata.

London October 1545. USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
24

HERESY, NAPLES, AND THE INQUISITION -- A series of manuscripts on various subjects,

Naples c. 1630. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,764.00
25

Hortus sanitatis.

Mainz 23 June 1491. USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 44,100.00
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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