Sale 830: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A PBA Platinum Auction (#830) 02/06/2025 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/06/2025 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 830 716 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-17 of 17. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum Omnes Sopho-Spagyricae Artis Discipulos Fidelissime Erudiens... Heading(Alchemy)HeadlineMusaeum Hermeticum with folding alchemical platesDate Published1749 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #31 Pierre Curie AuthorCurie, MarieHeadlineMarie Curie's bio of her husband w/signed cardPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1923 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #32 Le Déplacement Polaire Preuves des Variations de l'Axe Terrestre Heading(Darwin, Charles, his book)AuthorCarret, JulesHeadlineDarwin's copy of Carret on Earth's axisPublisherLibrairie F. SavyDate Published1877 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Lot #40 Eine einfache Anwendung des Newtonschen Gravitationsgesetzes auf die kugelförmigen Sternhaufen AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein applies Newton to star clustersPublisherVerlag Julius SpringerDate Published1921 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #41 Two French publications of Einstein papers that belonged to his son AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's son's copies of his papersPublisherGauthier-Villars et Cie.Date Published1921 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #43 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Application to Chemistry Heading(Feynman, Richard P., his copy)Author[Feynman, Richard P.]; Linus Pauling & E. Bright Wilson, Jr.HeadlineFeynman's copy of Quantum Mechanics textbookPublisherMcGraw-Hill Book CompanyDate Published1935 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #60 Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiæ Pars I, & II, More Geometrico demonstratæ. Per Benedictum de Spinoza... Heading(Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich)AuthorSpinoza, BaruchHeadlineGauss' copy of Spinoza's 1st bookPublisherJohannem RiewertsDate Published1663 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London AuthorGerard, JohnHeadlineGerard's massive Herbal, 1633PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #62 A Brief History of Time AuthorHawking, Stephen W.HeadlineStephen Hawking's copy of his own bookPublisherBantam BooksDate Published[1990] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #67 Manual do Fazendeiro, ou Tratado Domestico sobre as Enfermidades dos Negros AuthorImbert, J.B.A. [Jean Baptiste Alban]HeadlineMedical treatment for slaves in Brazil, 1834PublisherNa typ. imp. e const. de Seignot-PlancheretDate Published1834 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #73 Journal du Voyage fait par ordre du Roi, a l'Équateur [with] Mesure des Trois Premiers Degres du Méridien dans l'Hemisphere Austral AuthorLa Condamine, Charles-Marie deHeadlineLa Condamine maps Ecuador, 1751PublisherDe l'Imprimerie RoyaleDate Published1751 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #74 Philosophie Zoologique AuthorLamarck, Jean-Baptiste deHeadlinePhilosophie Zoologique inscribed by LamarckProvenanceProfessor George Starr Collection; Frank Mace MacFarlandPublisherDentuDate Published1809 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Lot #84 [Aphorisms) AuthorMesmer, FranzHeadlineMs. of Mesmer's Magnetic HealingDate PublishedLate 18th-early 19th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #89 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber. AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia (1714) & Arithmetica (1732)PublisherSumptibus Societatis [&] Joh. et Herm VerbeekDate Published1714 [&] 1732 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #90 A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's System of the World, 1738PublisherPrinted for F. FayramDate Published1728 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #105 Effect of Streptomycin and Other Antibiotic Substances upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related Organisms Heading(Tuberculosis)AuthorSchatz, Albert & Selman A. WaksmanHeadlineCure for Tuberculosis revealedPublisherSociety for Experimental Biology and MedicineDate Published1944 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #108 On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago. By Alfred R. Wallace... communicated by Charles Darwin AuthorWallace, Alfred Russel & Charles DarwinHeadlineWallace on zoological geography of Malay PeninsulaPublisherLongman, Green, et al.Date Published1860 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next