Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana, 23758, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026
Page Size: 171 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Isaac Newton, 1687

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

 London 1687 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 Unknown
27 Edmund Halley, 1715

The Shadow of the Moon over England, in the Total Eclipse of the Sun

 [London:] [before 22 April 1715]. USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
28 Edmund Halley, and other members of the Royal Society, 1726

Miscellanea Curiosa

 London 1726-1727. USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
29 Isaac Newton, 1728

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended

 London 1728 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
30 Isaac Newton, 1728

A Treatise of the System of the World

 London 1728 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
32 1965-2017

Limited and scholarly editions

 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
33 David Gans, 1743

Nehmad ve-Na'im

 Jessnitz 503 [1743]. USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
34 Edmund Halley, 1749

Tabulae astronomicae

 London 1749 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
35 J.H. Lambert, 1765

Eccliptischen Tafel

 Berlin 1765 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
36 Maximilian Hell, 1769-1782

Ephemerides [and] Observatio transitus Veneris ante discum solis

 Vienna 1769-1770. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
37 William Herschel, 1781

Account of a Comet

 London 1781-82. USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
38 Alexandre-Guy Pingre, 1783-1784

Cometographie

 Paris 1783-1784. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
39 Caroline Herschel, 1798

Catalogue of Stars, taken from Mr. Flamsteed's Observations

 London 1798 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
40 Various authors, 1820-1929

Solar eclipses

 1820-1929. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
41 Joseph Fraunhofer, 1817

Brechungs- und Farbenzerstreuungs-Vermgens verschiedener Glasarten

 Munich [1817]. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
42 Albert Einstein, 1905

Photons, Brownian motion, and special relativity

 Leipzig 1905 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 Unknown
43 Albert Einstein, 1916

Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie

 Leipzig 1916 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
44 NASA Special Publication, 1975

Apollo Expeditions to the Moon

 Washington 1975 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
45 Richard Feynman, 1985

QED

 Princeton, N.J. 1985 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Unknown
46 Alessandro Piccolomini, 1540

De le stelle fisse

 Venice 1540 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
47

Astronomical maps and atlases

 17th-19th century. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
48 Johannes Bayer, 1603

Uranometria

 Augsburg 1603 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
49 Johannes Hevelius, 1687/1690

Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia

 Gdansk 1687 [and/or 1690]. USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
50 John Flamsteed, 1729

Atlas coelestis

 London 1729 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
51 John Flamsteed, 1776

Atlas celeste

 Paris 1776 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
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