Sale 859: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views (#859) 03/19/2026 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 03/19/2026 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 859 766 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 1-10 of 19. Previous|12|Next Lot #11 Must Destruction be our Destiny? A Scientist Speaks as a Citizen Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorBrown, HarrisonHeadlineSigned by Manhattan Project turned A-bomb criticPublisherSimon and SchusterDate Published1946 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #12 The Gentleman of Culture Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorBush, VannevarHeadlinePrivately printed, signed by Vannevar BushPublisherPrivately PrintedDate Publishedc. 1958-1959 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #13 University of Chicago Round Table, Number 601, September 25, 1949 Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorSzilard, Leo, William Ogburn, Harold Urey, and Louis WirthHeadlineEarly retrospect on the Manhattan ProjectPublisherUniversity of Chicago Round TableDate Published1949 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #82 Four works on the first post-World War II computing machines Heading(Computing)HeadlineBirth of American ComputingDate Published1949-1957 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #83 Calculating Instruments and Machines Heading(Computing)AuthorHartree, Douglas R.HeadlineWhen Calculating Machines became ComputersProvenanceWalter Freiberger, Professor of Mathematics at Brown UniversityPublisherCambridge University PressDate Published1950 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #84 "Les Automates" in La Nature [with] Chess and Computers Heading(Computing)HeadlineOn Torres Quevedo's chess-playing automatonDate Published1914; 1976 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #85 Computers And Common Sense, The Myth of Thinking Machines Heading(Computing)AuthorTaube, MortimerHeadlineThe first critique of AI, inscribedPublisherColumbia University PressDate Published1961 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #86 Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. C, No. 4862 Heading(Computing)AuthorWilkes, M.V.HeadlineFirst doubts about A.I.?PublisherRoyal Society of ArtsDate PublishedDecember 14, 1951 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #105 Observaciones sobre los males que se experimentan en esta isla de Cuba desde la infancia, y consejos dados a las madres y al bello sexo Heading(Cuba)AuthorBelot, CharlesHeadlineBelot's guide to women's health in CubaPublisherLanuza, Mendia y CiaDate Published1828 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #142 Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Copper Plates AuthorFranklin, BenjaminHeadlineBen Franklin's Experiments on Electricity 1774PublisherPrinted for F. NewberyDate Published1774 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next