Bonhams: History of Science & Technology, 31199, New York

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Auction Date
October 24, 2025 - October 24, 2025
Page Size: 270 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1253 LEDLEY, ROBERT S. 1926-2012 and LEE B. LUSTED 1922-1994.

Artificial Intelligence in medical diagnosis 4 related papers

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,352.00
1254 MINSKY, MARVIN 1927-2016 and OLIVER SELFRIDGE 1926-2008.

Learning in random nets.

 [Cambridge:] [1960]. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,320.00
1255 DIEFFENBACH, JOHANN FRIEDRICH. 1792-1847.

Surgical observations on the restoration of the nose. Inscribed to John Lizars, and from the library of Lawson Tait.

 London 1833 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
1256 FARADAY, MICHAEL. 1791-1867.

Experimental researches in electricity (fourth series). 9. On a new law of electric conduction. 10. On conducting power generally. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions (1833).

 London 1833 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
1257 BABBAGE, CHARLES. 1791-1871.

Oval portrait miniature of Charles Babbage 162 mm. high. signed on obverse and dated by W. J Newton ("W J Newton 1851"; obscured by the mat).

 1851 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
1258 CAYLEY, ARTHUR. 1821-1895.

Three Mathematical Autograph Letters, Signed, Plus a Four Page Autograph Mathematics Manuscript.

Cambridge 1863-1868. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
1259 DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882.

Portrait photograph of Darwin at age 59, by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79).

[1869]. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
1260 FLAMMARION, CAMILLE. 1842-1925.

Voyage a la planete Mars. Autograph manuscript in French, signed by Flammarion on last leaf. Paris or Juvisy

 1892 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
1261 GODDARD, ROBERT H. 1882-1945.

A method of reaching extreme altitudes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 71, no. 2.

Washington, D.C.: 1919 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,144.00
1262 DINSDALE, ALFRED. 1896-1974.

Television. Seeing by Wireless.

 London 1926 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
1263 HEISENBERG, WERNER. 1901-1976 and WOLFGANG PAULI. 1900-1958.

(1) Zur Quantendynamik der Wellenfelder. (2) Zur Quantentheorie der Wellenfelder. II. Offprint from Zeitschrift fur Physik 56

 1929 and 59 1930 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
1264 ALEXANDER, FRANKLIN OSBORNE. 1897-1993.

Completed just in time. Pen-and-ink drawing for the political cartoon published in the Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper on 22 March 1946,

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,240.00
1265 FEYNMAN, RICHARD. 1918-1988.

A relativistic cut-off for classical electrodynamics. Offprint from: The Physical Review 74 (1948). 939-946pp.

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,840.00
1266 BERKELEY, EDMUND C. (1909-1988).

Giant brains or machines that think.

New York: 1949 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,120.00
1267 WILKES, MAURICE. 1913-2010.

Report on the preparation of programmes for the EDSAC and the use of the library of sub-routines.

Cambridge: 1950 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,800.00
1268 SHANNON, CLAUDE. 1916-2001.

Programming a computer for playing chess. Offprint from Philosophical Magazine, ser. 7, 41

 1950 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,400.00
1269 ENIAC

Collection of ENIAC artifacts once owned by Winifred S. Jonas, one of the ENIAC's first programmers.

 1951 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 14,080.00
1270 SHANNON, CLAUDE. 1916-2001.

A Mind-Reading (?) Machine. Typescript, signed "C. E. Shannon" in type on the last leaf.

 [Murray Hill, NJ: 18 March 1953. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,400.00
1271 WATSON, JAMES DEWEY, and FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON CRICK.

Collection of offprints, (including 3 signed by Crick), four typed letters signed by Watson, and other related items, as listed below.

1954-2005. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
1272 NEWELL, ALLEN. 1927-1992 and HERBERT A. SIMON. 1916-2001.

The logic theory machine. Reproduced typescript. Offprint from IRE Transactions on Information Theory IT-2 (September 1956).

 1956 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,320.00
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    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.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    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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    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    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.
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