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Previous|1|Next Lot #28 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineCharles Darwin The Descent of Man 1st EditionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 Lot #34 Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorFreundlich, ErwinHeadlineEinstein's Theory of Relativity analyzed, 1916PublisherVerlag von Julius SpringerDate Published1916 Lot #35 Original Associated Press photograph of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa standing next to a flower-covered float at the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlinePhoto of Einstein at Rose Bowl ParadeDate Publishedc.1932 Lot #36 Two original press photographs of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa relaxing at the El Mirador resort in Palm Springs View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlinePhotos of Albert & Elsa Einstein at California Mission 1932Date Publishedc.1932 Lot #37 Letter from Albert Einstein expressing regret that he did not have time to contribute to a journal View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineAlbert Einstein letter signed 1927Date Published1 Sept. 1927 Lot #39 Small group of original signed letters from Albert Einstein to author Max Fishler, an important correspondence about Immanuel Kant and Relativity View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$62,500StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein letters about Kant and RelativityDate Published1949-1954 Lot #40 Three early papers on special relativity by Albert Einstein in Annalen der Physik, Band 23 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein paper establishing E=mc2PublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1907 Lot #42 Euclidis elementorum libri XV. Unà cum scholijs antiquis à Federico Commandino Vrbinate nuper in Latinum conuersi, commentarijsque quibusdam illustrati View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorEuclidHeadlineEarly & desirable edition of Euclid's Elements 1572PublisherJakob Criegher [for Camillo Franceschini]Date Published1572 Lot #43 Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of dials vpon any plaine plat howsoeuer placed. With the drawing of the twelue signes, and houres unequall in them all... Of speciall vse and delight, not only for students of the arts mathematicall, but also for diuers artificers, architects, surueyours of buildings, free-Masons and others View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorFale, ThomasHeadlineEarly horological work 1627PublisherImprinted by Felix KyngstonDate Published1627 Lot #47 Über den Baue der Nervenfasern und Nervenzellen beim Flusskrebs View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorFreud, SigismundHeadlineEarly anatomical paper by Freud 1882PublisherK.K. Hof... in Commission bei Carl Gerold's SohnDate Published1882 Lot #50 Structure of Synthetic Polypeptides: I. The Transform of Atoms on a Helix View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Genetics)AuthorCrick, F[rancis] H.C.; W. Cochran; & V. VandHeadlineRare authors' offprint on DNAPublisherFr. Bagges Kgl. HofbogtrykkeriDate Published1952 Lot #51 Three early 20th century offprints of genetics papers by R.R. Gates, presentation copies View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Genetics)AuthorGates, Reginald RugglesHeadlineGenetics offprints by R.R. GatesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #52 Three offprints of articles by Lawson Anstruther from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Genetics)AuthorLawson, A. AnstrutherHeadlineGenetics offprints by A.S. LawsonPublisherRobert Grant & SonDate Published1911-1912 Lot #53 Three monographs from the Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, London View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Genetics)HeadlineMonographs on EugenicsPublisherPublished by Dulau and Co.Date Published1907-1909 Lot #55 The Experienced Millwright; or, A Treatise on the Construction of Some of he Most Useful Machines, with the Latest Improvements. To Which is Prefixed, a Short Account of the General Principles of Mechanics, and the Mechanical Powers View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorGray, AndrewHeadlineAndrew Gray's Experienced Millwright 1804 1st EditionPublisherArchibald Constable & Co.Date Published1804 Lot #59 Encyclopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse - PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO PHILIP MARHEINEKE View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000StatusUnsold AuthorHegel, Georg Wilhelm FriedrichHeadlineVery rare Hegel presentation copyPublisherOßwaldDate Published1830 Lot #60 Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto’s to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world. Whereby is discovered what is signified by every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles... By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Heraldry)AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlineMorgan's Armilogia, the Language or Arms, 1666PublisherPrinted by T. Hewer for Nathaniel BrookDate Published1666 Lot #93 Ioannis Paduanii Veronensis De compositione, & usu multiformium horologiorum solarium ad omnes totius orbis regiones, ac situs in qualibet superficie... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorPadovani, GiovanniHeadlineSundials by Giovanni Padovani, 1582PublisherApud Franciscum Franciscium SenensemDate Published1582 Lot #102 The Six Books of Proclus the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Translated from the Greek; To Which a Seventh Book Is Added, in Order to Supply the Deficiency of Another Book on the Subject, also, a Translation from the Greek of Proclus' Elements of Theology.... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Philosophy - Neoplatonism)AuthorProclusHeadlineThomas Taylor translation of Proclus 1816PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1816 Lot #117 Horometria: or The compleat diallist. Wherein the whole mystery of the art of dialling is plainly taught three several wayes; two of which are performed geometrically by rule and compass onely: and the third instrumentally, by a quadrant fitted for that purpose. With the working of such propositions of the sphere, as are most usefull in astronomy and navigation, both geometrically and instrumentally... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorStirrup, ThomasHeadlineThomas Stirrup's Compleat Diallist 1659PublisherPrinted by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas PierrepontDate Published1659 Lot #124 Dialogo del molto rever.do P. Don Gio. Battista Vimercato... De gli horologi solari: nel quale con ragioni speculative, et prattiche facilmente s'insegna il modo da fabricar tutte le sorti di horologi View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorVimercato, Giovanni BattistaHeadlineRare work on sun dials 1566PublisherAppresso Gabriel Giolito de'FerrariDate Published1566 Lot #126 Opere di Galileo Galilei nobile fiorentino - signed by Allesandro Volta View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Volta, Allesandro)AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineVolta's copy of GalileoPublisherDalla Società tipografica de' classici italiani contrada del CappuccioDate Published1811 Lot #221 Solitude Considered, In Regard to its Influence upon the Mind and Heart View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorZimmermann, MHeadlineSolitude Considered, In Regard to its Influence upon the Mind and HeartPublisherJohn Fairbairn and Archibald ConstableDate Published1797 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next