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
1202 SHANNON, CLAUDE. 1916-2001.

Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits. In: Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Vol 57.

New York: 1938 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
1203 SHANNON, CLAUDE. 1916-2001.

Communications in the Presence of Noise. In: Proceedings of the I.R.E., vol 37, no 1, January, 1949.

New York: 1949 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
1204 SHANNON, CLAUDE. 1916-2001.

The Bandwagon. In: I.R.E. Transactions on Information Theory, Vol IT-2, No 1, March 1956.

New York: 1956 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,328.00
1205 ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY.

Graphite from CP-1, first nuclear reactor, December 2, 1942, Stagg Field --- University of Chicago.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,376.00
1206

The Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University.

Cambridge, MA: 1945-1955. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,816.00
1207 NASH, JOHN FORBES. 1928-2015.

Sag and tension calculations for cable and wire spans using catenary formulas. In: Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, vol 64, 1945.

New York: 1945 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 281.60
1208 NASH, JOHN FORBES. 1928-2015.

Equilibrium Points in n-Person Games In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 36, no 1, pp 48-49.

Easton, Pennsylvania 1950 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
1209 NASH, JOHN HENRY. 1871-1947.

Non-Cooperative Games. In: Annals of Mathematics, vol 54, No 1 and 2

1954 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,144.00
1210 NASH, JOHN FORBES. 1928-2015.

Two important papers from his pioneering work in Partial Differential Equations: 1. "Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations." In: American Journal of Mathematics, Vol 80, No 4 (Oct. 1958), pp 931--954.

1958 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
1211 NASH, JOHN. 1928-2015.

Le probleme de Cauchy pour les equations differentielles d'un fluide general. Offprint from: Bulletin de la Societe Mathematique de France vol 90/4, pp 487-497.

1962 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 332.80
1212

Nature. Volumes 157 and 158

1946 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 832.00
1213 ECKERT, J. PRESPER. 1919-1995.

The 1949 Howard N. Potts Medal from the Franklin Institute awarded to J. Presper Eckert for the "design and construction of the ENIAC, ...

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,600.00
1214

1. WIENER, NORBERT. Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine.

Paris 1948 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,408.00
1215 FEYNMAN, RICHARD. 1918-1988.

Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. In: Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol 20, No 2, April 1948.

1948 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,216.00
1216 GODEL, KURT; ALBERT EINSTEIN; RICHARD FEYNMAN.

In Commemoration of the Seventieth Birthday of Albert Einstein, issue of Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol 21, no 3, July 1949

1949 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,664.00
1217 WATSON, JAMES; FRANCIS CRICK; MAURICE STOKES; ROSALIND FRANKLIN; ET AL. 1916-2004.

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid; Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids; Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate. pp 737-741 [AND] "Evidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of So

London: 1953 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,840.00
1218 WATSON, JAMES DEWEY. b. 1928.

An archive of 15 Autograph Letters Signed ("Jim"), and 3 post cards signed ("Jim"), to Belinda Bullard on scientific subjects and his early work with the Harvard biological laboratory,

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 40,960.00
1219 WATSON, JAMES DEWEY. b. 1928 & FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON CRICK. 1916-2004.

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. [WITH] "Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid." In: Nature, vol. 171. Jan-June 1953.

London: 1953 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,600.00
1220 CRICK, FRANCIS. 1916-2004.

Autograph Letter Signed ("Francis Crick") a thank you upon his 1962 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA,

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
1221 PAULING, LINUS. 1901-1994.

Four papers on the structure of DNA appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 39

1953 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 358.40
1222 PAULING, LINUS. 1901-1994.

Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Linus Pauling"), the first draft of his 1979 paper "Ascorbic Acid and Cancer: A Review,"

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
1223 TURING, ALAN MATHISON; ALBERT EINSTEIN.

Three volumes of In: Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, vols 39-41

1938-1940, USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,304.00
1224 P. W. Higgs

Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons. In: Physical Review Letters, Volume 13, Number 9, pp. 321-23.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
1225 HAHN, OTTO. 1879-1968.

Autograph Note Signed ("Otto Kahn") on the potential destruction of the nuclear bomb he helped to create,

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
1226 HAWKING, STEPHEN. 1942-2018.

Occurrence of Singularities in Open Universes. In: Physical Review Letters, Vol 15, No 17, October 1965, pp 689-690.

1965 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,216.00
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