Bonhams: IMPORTANT SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, & ALCHEMY RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS - online 4/28, 29469, New York

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Auction Date
May 07, 2024 - May 07, 2024
Page Size: 24 items in 1 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 HELVETIUS, CLAUDE ADRIEN. 1715-1771.

De L'homme.

London [i.e. The Hague] 1773 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
2 MAIER, MICHAEL. 1568--1622.

Atalanta fugiens hoc est, Emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica.

Oppenheim 1618 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
3 MYSTERIUM MAGNUM.

Illustrated alchemical manuscript of Rosicrucian origin on the "Mysterium Magnum Studium Universale,"

 18th-century USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
4

De consolatione philosophiae. [With commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.]

Nuremberg 1476 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
5 DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882.

Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836.

 London 1839 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Unknown
6 DE BROGLIE, LOUIS. 1892-1987.

Autograph Manuscript Signed ("M. de Broglie") on the problem of defining matter after the quantum revolution he helped ignite [published as "Le reel en petitesse"],

 Paris 1954 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
7 [DESCARTES, RENE.] LE GRAND, ANTOINE.

An Entire Body of Philosophy, according to the Principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes.

London 1694 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
8 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

"Erklarung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie."

Offprint from 1915 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
9 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

The Meaning of Relativity.

Princeton 1950 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Unknown
10 HERTZ, HEINRICH. 1857-1894.

Autograph Manuscript, a heavily annotated and corrected draft of his 1891 tribute to his mentor Hermann von Helmholtz on his 70th birthday,

 1891 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
11 POSTEL, GUILLAUME. 1510-1581.

Abrahami Patriarchae liber Iezirah, sive Formationis mundi.

Paris 1552 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
12 LAPLACE, PIERRE SIMON. 1749-1821; HAUY, RENE JUST. 1743-1822.

Autograph Manuscript Signed ("La Place" and "Hauy") in the hand of Laplace, being Laplace's report (with Hauy) to l'Academie des Sciences on Malus's work on double refraction and Huygen's law,

 1808 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
13 MAIMONIDES (MOSES BEN MAIMON). 1138-1204.

Dux seu director dubitantium aut perplexorum.

[Paris] 1520 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
14 RECORDE, ROBERT. c.1510-1558.

Whetstone of Witte.

London 1557 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
15 STAMPA, JOSEPHO [GIUSEPPE] MARIA. 1666-1734.

Autograph Mathematical Manuscript in Italian and Latin, "De Sectionibus Conicis. Libris Quator,"

 18TH-CENTURY USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
16 MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK. 1831-1879.

Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.

Oxford 1873 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Unknown
17 NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727.

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.

London 1726 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 Unknown
18 NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727.

Autograph alchemical manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," being Newton's "key" to Johannes de Monte-Snyders' Commentatio de Pharmaco Catholico, an important component of his alchemical thought,

 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 Unknown
19 GROSSCHEDEL, JOHANN BAPTISTE; DE BRY, JOHANN THEODOR, printer; MERIAN, MATTHIAS, engraver.

Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum.

Frankfurt c.1618. USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
20 PLANCK, MAX. 1858-1947.

Autograph Letter Signed ("M. Planck") to Dr. Ludwik Silberstein solving an equation for a special case that Silberstein had inquired about,

 Berlin 1897 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
21 PLATO. FICINO, MARCELLO, Translator.

Timaeus [WITH:] Critias.

Florence 1484 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 Unknown
22 SCHRODINGER, ERWIN. 1887-1961.

Typed Letter Signed ("E. Schrodinger") to Wilhelm Wien ("Hochverehrter Herr Geheimrat!)" on the success of the Davisson-Germer experiments and the landmark Solvay Conference in Belgium,

 Berlin 1927 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
23 SHANNON, CLAUDE E. 1916-2001.

"A Mathematical Theory of Communication." Offprint from: Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 27 (July and October).

New York 1948 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Unknown
24 TESLA, NIKOLA. 1856-1943.

Typed Letter Signed ("N. Tesla") to N.S. Amstutz advising on his experiments with induction coils,

 New York, 1894 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
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    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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  • 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
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