Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Auction Info 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 1-19 of 19. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE Author[Abbott, Edwin A.]HeadlineE.A. Abbott's Flatland, a geometric fantasy 1884PublisherSeeley & Co.Date Published1884 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #9 The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem: with annotations and an astronomical appendix. By Edward Sherburne, Esquire Heading(Astronomy)AuthorManilius, MarcusHeadlineManilius' Sphere trans. Ed. Sherburne 1675PublisherPrinted for Nathanael Brooke, at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill, near the Royal ExchangeDate Published1675 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #10 Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorSmyth, Henry D.HeadlineAtomic Energy Signed by ScientistsPublisherPrinceton University PressDate Published1945 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #38 Ueber die mechanischen Analogien des zweiten Hauptsatzes der Thermodynamik AuthorBoltzmann, LudwigHeadlineRare Boltzmann offprint on EntropyPublisher[Georg Reimer]Date Published[1885] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #48 The Structure of Synthetic Polypeptides. I. The Transform of Atoms on a Helix Heading(DNA)AuthorCrick, F[rancis] H.C. & W. Cochran & V. VandHeadlineOffprint of Crick's DNA spiral stuctures 1952PublisherFr. Bagges Kgl. HofbogtrykkeriDate Published1952 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 Two author's offprints of papers by George Gamow on DNA Heading(DNA)AuthorGamow, GeorgeHeadline2 offprints of papers by George Gamow on DNADate Published1954 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #52 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Origin of Species, 2nd editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1860 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #53 Philosophiae Cartesiamae Epitome Heading(Descartes, Rene)Author**HeadlineEnglish ms. of Descartes Philosophiae c.1690Date Published[c.1690] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #59 Four major papers by Albert Einstein, in Annalen der Physik - Bands 17 & 18 AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineFour major papers by Albert Einstein, 1905PublisherJohan Ambrosius BarthDate Published1905 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #60 Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's Theory of Relativity 1916PublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1916 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #61 The Principle of Relativity [&] The Theory of Relativity AuthorEinstein, Albert, et alHeadline2 works on relativity by EinsteinPublisherMethuen & Co.Date Published[1923 & 1924] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #71 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 1769PublisherPrinted for David Henry and sold by Francis NewberyDate Published1769 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #72 Arbeiten aus dem zoologisch-vergleichend-anatomischen Institute der Universität Wien. VII. Beobachtungen über Gestaltung und feineren Bau der als Hoden beschriebenen Lappenorgane des Aals AuthorFreud, SigmundHeadlineFreud's second published work 1877PublisherKarl Gerold's SonDate Published1877 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #91 Arithmologia sive, De abditis numerorum mysterijs qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditæ eorundem proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur; denique post Cabalistarum, Arabum, Gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera & licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher's Arithmologia 1665PublisherEx typographia VaresijDate Published1665 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #98 Opera. Accedunt integrae I Pontani, J Meursii, J Gronovii notae & animadversiones AuthorMacrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius TheodosiusHeadlineFirst English Printing of MacrobiusPublisherM.C. & B.M. for T. Dring and C. HarperDate Published1694 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #117 Opus de re Medica AuthorPaulus AeginetaHeadlinePaulus Aegineta Opus De re MedicaPublisherArrivabenusDate Published1542 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #119 The Geometry and Optics of Ancient Architecture, illustrated by Examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome. AuthorPennethorne, JohnHeadlineGeometry and Optics of Ancient ArchitecturePublisherWilliams and NorgateDate Published1878 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #120 Essais de physique, ou Recueil de plusieurs traitez touchant les choses naturelles. Tome I AuthorPerrault, ClaudeHeadlinePerrault Essais de physique Vol. I 1680PublisherChez Jean Baptiste CoignardDate Published1680 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #122 Guilielmi Postelli de Universitate libri duo: in quibus Astronomiae, Doctrinaeve coelistis compendium AuthorPostel, GuilllaumeHeadline1635 Astonomy text by PostellusPublisherJoannis MaireDate Published1635 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next