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
1177 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

Photograph signed ("Albert.") and inscribed in German lower right, "Freundlicher Grusse,"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,352.00
1178 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

Autograph letter signed ('Papa') to his son, Eduard ['Tetel'], on fleeing the Nazis in Belgium and his imminent assassination,

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
1179 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955; EUGEN SPIRO; ROMAN VISHNIAC, Photographer.

Photograph of Albert Einstein sitting for his portrait by Eugen Spiro.

Princton, ca 1941. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,120.00
1180 TSIOLKOVSKY, KONSTANTIN. 1857-1935.

Izsledovanie Mirovykh Postrantsv' Reaktivnymi Priborami (Dopolnenie k I i II Chasti Truda Togo-zhe Nazvaniya) [Investigation of Cosmic Space Using Reactive Devices (Supplement to Parts I and II of the Works of the Same Title)]..

Kaluga: 1914 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
1181 PLANCK, MAX. 1858-1947

Zur theorie des Rotationspektrums. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4th Series, vol 52.

Leipzig 1917 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
1182 PLANCK, MAX. 1858-1947

Two autograph items: 1. Autograph Note Signed ("M. Planck") in German, on the occasion of his 80th birthday,

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,400.00
1183 HEISENBERG, WERNER; BORN, MAX; JOURDAN, PASCUAL; FERMI, ENRICO; BOHR, NIELS; ET AL.

14 issues of Zeitschrift fur Physik

1924-1926, representing the birth of quantum mechanics, USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,376.00
1184 HEISENBERG, WERNER. 1901-1976.

Uber quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen. In: Zeitschrift fur Physik. Vol 33, Issue 12, pp 879-893.

Berlin: 1925 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,864.00
1185 PAULI, WOLFGANG ERNST. 1900-1958.

Uber den Einfluss der Geschwindigkeitsabhangigkeit der Elektronenmasse auf den Zeemaneffekt. Vol. 31/5 and 6 pp. 373-385.

1925 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,216.00
1186

16 offprints from Zeitschrift Fur Physik from a pivotal period

1928-1936. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 435.20
1187 PAULI, WOLFGANG. 1900-1958.

Relativistic field theories of elementary particles. Offprint from Reviews of Modern Physics Vol 13, No 3, July 1941, pp 203-232 1941.

1941 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,152.00
1188 NYQUIST, HARRY. 1889-1976.

Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory. In: Quarterly Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, vol 47, no 2, pp 617-644.

New York: 1928 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,088.00
1189 VON NEUMANN, JOHN. 1903-1957

Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele. In: Mathematische Annalen, vol 100, pp 295-320.

Berlin, 1928 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,176.00
1190 VON NEUMANN, JOHN, VALENTINE BARGMANN and DEANE MONTGOMERY.

Solution of Linear Systems of High Order.

[Princeton, NJ]: October 10, 1946 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,536.00
1191 HUBBLE, EDWIN. 1889-1953.

A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol 15, No 3, pp 168-173, March 1929.

[Washington, DC:] 1929 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,040.00
1192

17 offprints on physics from scientific publications:

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
1193 DE BROGLIE, LOUIS. 1892-1987.

Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Louis De Broglie") on the dsicovery of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, including his own contributions,

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 15,360.00
1194 RUTHERFORD, ERNEST. 1871-1837.

Autograph Scientific Manuscript Unsigned, headed "Possible Transformations," being a series of four equations showing successive nuclear fusion reactions of hydrogen, deuterium, helium and lithium, with accompanying notes on mass and energy,

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 16,640.00
1195 CHURCH, ALONZO. 1903-1995.

An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory. In: American Journal of Mathematics, Vol 58

1936, pp 345-363. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,792.00
1196 TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954.

On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entsheidungsproblem. In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, Vol 42, Part 3.

London 1936 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 33,280.00
1197 TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954.

On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem: A Correction, In: Proceedings of The London Mathematical Society, Second Series, vol 43, pp 544-546. WITH: "A Method for the Calculation of the Zeta-Function," In: Proceedings of The

London 1937 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 9,600.00
1198 TURING, ALAN; AND ALONZO CHURCH; ET AL.

The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Volume 1 & 2.

Menasha, WI: March 1936-1937. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,816.00
1199 TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954.

Systems of Logic based on Ordinals. Extract from: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, volume 45, pt 3, March 21, 1939

1939 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,096.00
1200 TURING, ALAN MATHISON; I.E. SEGAL; JOHN VON NEUMANN.

The Word problem in Semi-groups with Cancellation [AND] "A theorem on unitary representations of semisimple Lie groups." In: Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, vol 52

1950 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,792.00
1201 TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954.

The Chemical Basis of Morphogenenis. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B, vol 237, Biological Sciences, 37-72.

London 1954 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,680.00
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