Bonhams Auction 30732

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Auction Date: November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025

Page Size: 236 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	WILLYAMS (COOPER)	A Voyage of the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, 1802; and others, military and naval		1802	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 640.00
52		ASTRONOMY -- MANUSCRIPT Manuscript celestial chart titled "The Comet's Path 1807"		1807	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
53	BABBAGE (CHARLES)	Table of Logarithms		1827	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 1,920.00
54	BABBAGE (CHARLES)	Autograph manuscript of amendments to the footnotes of the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise		[c.1837]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 832.00
55	BABBAGE (CHARLES)	Metal storage wheel from Babbage's 1864 plan for the Analytical Engine	[n.p.]	[2 January 1865]	GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 12,800.00
56	[BERKELEY (GEORGE)]	The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician		1734	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 8,320.00
57	CASSINI (JACQUES)	Elements d'Astronomie [with] Tables Astronomiques du Soleil	Paris	1740	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 512.00
58	CLAIRAUT (ALEXIS CLAUDE)	Theorie de la figure de la terre, tiree des principes de l'hydrostatique	Paris	1743	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 256.00
59	DARWIN (CHARLES)	On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection		1860	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 6,400.00
60	DARWIN (CHARLES)	On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection...		1872	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 640.00
61	DAVY (HUMPHRY)	Elements of Chemical Philosophy, 1812; and 2 others		1812	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,408.00
62	DONOVAN (EDWARD)	An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China, 1798; History of the Insects of India, 1800; Harris. English Insects, 1782		1798[-1799]	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 10,240.00
63	OLIVER BYRNE	EUCLID - BYRNE (OLIVER) The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learner, [Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for] William Pickering		1847	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 8,320.00
64	EULER (LEONHARD)	Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes	Lausanne and Geneva	1744	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,072.00
65	GERARD (JOHN)	The Herball or General Historie of Plantes... very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers		1636	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,664.00
66	HAWKING (STEPHEN)	A Brief History of Time		[2011]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,304.00
67	HIGGS (PROFESSOR PETER)	The remaining scientific library of Nobel Prize-winner Professor Peter Higgs		1937-2000s	GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	GBP 12,800.00
68	HUYGENS (CHRISTIAN)	The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets		1722	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
69	LILFORD (THOMAS L. POWYS, Lord)	Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands		1885-1897	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,536.00
70	MACLAURIN (COLIN)	A Treatise of Fluxions		1742	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
71	DAWKES (THOMAS)	MIDWIFERY The Midwife Rightly Instructed, or the Way, Which All Women Desirous to Learn... [to] be successful in the Practice of the Art of Midwifery		1736	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 614.40
72	NEWTON (ISAAC)	Optice sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus, et Coloribus Lucis Libris Tres		1706	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 2,560.00
73	NEWTON (ISAAC)	The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms		1728	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,584.00
74	NEWTON (ISAAC)	Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John		1733	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,024.00
75	NEWTON (ISAAC)	Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John		1733	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,216.00

Bonhams: Books, Atlases, and Manuscripts, 30732, London, New Bond Street

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