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
1127 BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths.

London 1646 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 486.40
1128 DESCARTES, RENE. 1596-1650.

Les passions de l'ame.

Paris 1649 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,560.00
1129 DESCARTES, RENE. 1596-1650.

A group of 4 works by Rene Descartes.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,088.00
1130 BEGUIN, JEAN. 1550-1620.

Tyrocinium Chymicum.

Geneva: 1659 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
1131 BOYLE, ROBERT. 1627-1691.

New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects.

Oxford 1662 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
1132 BOYLE, ROBERT. 1627-1691.

The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy), Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments.

Oxford 1677 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
1133 LA FAVEUR, SEBASTIEN MATTE. 1626-1714.

Pratique de la Chymie, divisee en quatres parties ... Avec un avis sur les eaux minerales. Montpellier: Daniel Pech

1671 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
1134 HOOKE, ROBERT. 1635-1703.

Autograph Manuscript Signed ("R. Hooke"), being a scientific report on the function of the barometer to Robert Southwell,

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
1135 POMET, PIERRE. 1658-1699.

Histoire generale des drogues : traitant des plantes, des animaux, & des mineraux....

Paris 1694 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
1136 HAWES, NATHANIEL.

Autograph Letter Signed ("Nath: Hawes") to Isaac Newton upon his contributions to the new mathematical curriculum,

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
1137 NEWTON, ISAAC. 1643-1727.

Autograph Statement unsigned, a fragment on unity of the Father and Son and outlook on the creation of Jesus,

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
1138 BARCHUSEN, JOHANN CONRAD. 1666-1723.

Pyrosophia, succincte atque breviter iatro-chemiam, rein metallicam et chrysopoeiam pervestigans. Opus medicis, physicis, chemicis, pharmacopoeis, metallicis &c. non inutile.

Leiden 1698 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
1139 ERCKER LAZARUS. C. 1530-1594.

Aula Subterranea Domina Dominantium Subdita Subditorum....

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
1140 STIRLING, JAMES. 1692-1770.

The Differential Method: or, a Treatise concerning summation and interpolation of infinite series.

London 1749 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,120.00
1141 ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED. 1697-1770.

Tabulae ossium humanorum.

Leiden, 1753 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,152.00
1142

Philosophical Transactions... Vol. XLIX, Part II. For the Year 1756.

London 1757 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 281.60
1143 SANDIFORT, EDUARD. 1825-1889.

Observationes anatomico-pathologicae.

Leiden 1777-1781. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,432.00
1144 CALDANI, LEOPOLDO MARCO ANTONIO. 1725-1813. And FLORIANO CALDANI. 1772-1836.

Icones anatomicae.

Venice 1801-1814. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,120.00
1145 ESQUIROL, JEAN ETIENNE DOMINIQUE. 1772-1840.

Des passions considerees comme causes, symptomes et moyens curatifs de l'alienation mentale.

Paris 1805 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
1146 DELAMBRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH. 1749-1822 and MECHAIN, PIERRE FRANCOIS ANDRE 1744-1804.

Base du Systeme Metrique Decimal, ou Mesure de l'Arc Meridien compris entre les paralleles du Dunkerque et Barcelone. . . .

Paris 1806, 1807 and 1810. USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 Not Sold
1147 AMPERE, ANDRE-MARIE. 1775-1836.

Lettre de M. Ampere a M. le comte Berthollet sur la determination des proportions dans lesquelles les corps se combinent d'apres le nombre et la disposition respective des molecules.... OFFPRINT FROM: Annales de chimie, April 1814.

[Paris]: [1814]. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
1148 ORSTED, HANS CHRISTIAN. ANDRE MARIE AMPERE.

Foundational works on electromagnetism in Annales de Chimie et de Physique including: 1. ORSTED. "Experimenta circa Effectum, etc. Experiences sur l'affet du conflit electrique sur l'aiguille aimantee," In: vol 14

1820 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,664.00
1149 GAUSS, CARL FRIEDRICH. 1777-1855.

Dioptrische Untersuchungen.

Gottingen: 1841 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
1150 BABBAGE, CHARLES. 1791-1871.; LUIGI-FEDERICO MENABREA.

Notions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage. In: Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve, Nouvelle Series, vol 41, pp 352-376.

Paris 1842 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 14,080.00
1151 FOOTE, EUNICE. 1819-1888.

Circumstances affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays. In: The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series, Vol XXII

1856 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,040.00
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