- Auction
24550
Fine Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Science
1 October 2026 - 13 October 2026, New York
SALE TOTAL: 5,686,016 (USD)
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208 Lots for Sale 24550
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Lot 1 A large Gibeon meteorite Iron, Fine Octahedrite – IVA; Gibeon, Great Nama Land, Namibia, (25°23' S, 19 x 11 ½ x 7in. (48.5 x 30 x 17.5cm.) |
estimate $200,000 - $300,000 |
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Lot 2 The tooth of a Tyrannosaurus Rex Montana, USA 6 ½in. (16.5cm) long |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 price realized $35,840 |
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Lot 3 Hyakumanto pagoda with printed dharani Japanese printing, ca. 770 CE |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $40,960 |
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Lot 4 Mary Magdalene with her ointment pot, miniature from a Book of Hours Georges Trubert, France, Lorraine, c.1495-1500 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $21,760 |
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Lot 5 Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible Mainz, c.1455 |
estimate $50,000 - $80,000 price realized $108,800 |
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Lot 6 Geographia Ptolemy and Sebastian Münster, 1542 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $20,480 |
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Lot 7 Cosmography Sebastian Münster, 1578 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 8 Sepher Tehilim [Queen Elizabeth I], 1581 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $14,080 |
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Lot 9 Theatrum orbis terrarum Abraham Ortelius, 1595 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 price realized $102,400 |
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Lot 10 Newer Atlas Jan Jansson, 1638 |
estimate $70,000 - $100,000 price realized $70,400 |
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Lot 11 Le Théâtre du monde Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1643–1645 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $40,960 |
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Lot 12 The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine and the Prospect John Speed, 1650 |
estimate $70,000 - $100,000 |
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Lot 13 Theatrum orbis terrarum—Scotland and Ireland Joan Blaeu, 1654 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $14,080 |
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Lot 14 Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula Willem Blaeu, c.1660 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $16,640 |
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Lot 15 Atlas major – America Joan Blaeu, 1662 |
estimate $30,000 - $40,000 price realized $48,640 |
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Lot 16 Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula Jan Blaeu, c.1662 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $48,640 |
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Lot 17 The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain and the Prospect John Speed, 1676 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $48,640 |
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Lot 18 Deluxe, polder wall map of Rijnland J.J. Dou and S. van Broeckhuysen, [1687⁄88] |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $11,520 |
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Lot 19 Description de tout l'univers Nicolas Sanson, 1700 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $4,864 |
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Lot 20 The World Described Herman Moll, c.1731 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $21,760 |
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Lot 21 A receipt Paul Revere |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 22 On the arrival of muskets from France Gouverneur Morris, 2 April 1777 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $2,560 |
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Lot 23 Purchasing bar iron for the Potomac Company George Washington, 1 August 1785 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $17,920 |
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Lot 24 A patent document issued for a nail making machine George Washington, 1797 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $83,200 |
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Lot 25 A Collection of United States Presidents George Washington to Lyndon Johnson (1795-1965) |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $89,600 |
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Lot 26 Archive of Regency-era fashion illustrations Catherine Hutton, [c.1790–c.1810] |
estimate $10,000 - $20,000 price realized $25,600 |
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Lot 27 Aiding an imprisoned merchant abroad James Madison, 19 January 1804 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $5,760 |
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Lot 28 Pomona Britannica George Brookshaw, 1812 |
estimate $50,000 - $70,000 price realized $51,200 |
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Lot 29 The Mummy! Jane Webb Loudon, 1827 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $14,080 |
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Lot 30 Sunday Under Three Heads [Charles Dickens], 1836 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $1,920 |
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Lot 31 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Charles Dickens, 1836–1837 |
estimate $50,000 - $70,000 |
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Lot 32 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens, 1838–1839 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $1,792 |
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Lot 33 The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens, 1870 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $1,536 |
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Lot 34 The Indian Tribes of North America Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1837 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 price realized $25,600 |
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Lot 35 An Illustrated Atlas Thomas Bradford, 1838 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $6,144 |
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Lot 36 Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American... George Catlin, 1866 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $8,320 |
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Lot 37 An extensive Civil War correspondence Chaplain William C. Holliday, 1863-1869 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $7,040 |
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Lot 38 On preserving the Union James Buchanan, 1868 |
estimate $30,000 - $40,000 |
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Lot 39 A stanza of Jules Breton's poetry Vincent Van Gogh, c. 1876 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $23,040 |
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Lot 40 Le avventure di Pinocchio Carlo Collodi, 1883 |
estimate This lot was withdrawn from the sale |
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Lot 41 The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Kelmscott Press, 1896 |
estimate $100,000 - $150,000 price realized $281,600 |
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Lot 42 Keats' Death Mask John Keats, [c.1898–1905] |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $17,920 |
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Lot 43 Four rare offprints Charles Babbage, c.1817-25 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 |
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Lot 44 Letter to Humphry Davy on the application of machinery for calculations Charles Babbage, 1822 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $20,480 |
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Lot 45 Ars Conjectandi Jacob Bernoulli, 1713 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $9,600 |
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Lot 46 Laws of Thought George Boole, 1854 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $9,600 |
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Lot 47 De triplici minimo et mensura Giordano Bruno, 1591 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $9,600 |
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Lot 48 Transfinite numbers Georg Cantor, 1874 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $8,960 |
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Lot 49 Commentary on Ptolemy's Quadripartitum Girolamo Cardano, 1554 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $15,360 |
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Lot 50 Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu Sadi Carnot, 1824 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $21,760 |
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Lot 51 Eight rare papers on calculus Augustin-Louis Cauchy, 1815–1839 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 |
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Lot 52 \"Mémoire sur les intégrals définies\" Presentation copy from Augustin-Louis Cauchy, October 1822 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $1,408 |
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Lot 53 On the tendency of species to form varieties Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $19,200 |
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Lot 54 The Descent of Man Charles Darwin, 1871 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $7,680 |
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Lot 55 Charles Batchelor's copies of Edison's British patents for the electric light Thomas Edison, 1879–1881 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $9,600 |
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Lot 56 Introductio in analysin infinitorum Leonhard Euler, 1748 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $7,040 |
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Lot 57 Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne Leonhard Euler, 1768–72 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $4,864 |
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Lot 58 Observationibus Pierre de Fermat, 1670 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $20,480 |
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Lot 59 Sidereus nuncius, and 3 other works Galileo Galilei, 1610 |
estimate $200,000 - $300,000 price realized $217,600 |
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Lot 60 Rare papers on vector analysis and thermodyamics Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1875–84 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $23,040 |
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Lot 61 De magnete William Gilbert, 1600 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 price realized $61,440 |
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Lot 62 Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride Francisco Maria Grimaldi,1665 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 |
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Lot 63 Homeopathy – Organon der rationellen Heilkunde Samuel Hahnemann, 1810 |
estimate $6,000 - $9,000 price realized $9,600 |
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Lot 64 Tabulae astronomicae Edmund Halley, 1749 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 65 Über die Erhaltung der Kraft Hermann von Helmholtz, 1847 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 |
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Lot 66 Problems mathématiques David Hilbert, [1902?] |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,584 |
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Lot 67 Opera Posthuma Jeremiah Horrocks, 1673 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $20,480 |
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Lot 68 A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume, 1739-1740 |
estimate $60,000 - $80,000 price realized $140,800 |
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Lot 69 Horologium oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum Christiaan Huygens, 1673 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $24,320 |
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Lot 70 Cosmotheros, sive de terris coelestibus Christiaan Huygens, 1699 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $3,840 |
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Lot 71 Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur Johannes Kepler, 1604 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 |
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Lot 72 Nova stereometria doliorum vinariorum Johannes Kepler, 1615 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 |
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Lot 73 Exposition du systéme du monde, manuscript draft leaf Pierre-Simon Laplace, not after 1808 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 |
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Lot 74 Théorie analytique des probabilités Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1812–25 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $28,160 |
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Lot 75 Repräsentation der Imaginären der Plangeometrie Marius Sophus Lie, 1869 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 |
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Lot 76 Principles of Geology Charles Lyell, 1830–1833 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 77 Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni Maimonides, 1489 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $35,840 |
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Lot 78 An essay on the principle of population T.R. Malthus, 1803 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $3,840 |
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Lot 79 Mundus Iovialis Simon Marius, 1614 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $19,200 |
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Lot 80 A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism James Clerk Maxwell, 1873 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 81 The founding document of genetics Gregor Mendel, 1866 |
estimate $250,000 - $350,000 price realized $640,000 |
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Lot 82 Principles of Chemistry Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, 1869 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $30,720 |
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Lot 83 Differential Barometer Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, 1876 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 |
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Lot 84 Napier's bones Early 18th century |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $16,640 |
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Lot 85 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Isaac Newton, 1687 |
estimate $300,000 - $500,000 price realized $576,000 |
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Lot 86 Opticks Isaac Newton, 1704 |
estimate $50,000 - $80,000 price realized $89,600 |
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Lot 87 The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Isaac Newton, 1729 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 price realized $89,600 |
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Lot 88 Die galvanische Kette Georg Simon Ohm, 1827 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $15,360 |
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Lot 89 The Castle of Knowledge Robert Recorde, 1556 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $30,720 |
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Lot 90 Riemann Hypothesis – “Ueber die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen... Bernhard Riemann, 1859 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $28,160 |
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Lot 91 Uebe eine neue Art von Strahlen (Vorläufige Mittheilung) Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, 1895 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 |
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Lot 92 De judiciis nativitatum libri tres Johann Schöner, 1545 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $12,160 |
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Lot 93 Syruporum Michael Servetus, 1537 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $8,320 |
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Lot 94 Theory of moral sentiments Adam Smith, 1759 |
estimate $25,000 - $40,000 price realized $102,400 |
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Lot 95 Arithmetica integra Michael Stifel, 1544 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 96 Les portraicts anatomiques Andreas Vesalius, 1569 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $16,640 |
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Lot 97 Alcoholics Anonymous Hank Parkhurst's copy |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 98 Alcoholics Anonymous Bill Wilson, 1939 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $20,480 |
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Lot 99 Alcoholics Anonymous Smith Ely Jelliffe's copy |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $14,080 |
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Lot 100 Alcoholics Anonymous, inscribed Bill Wilson, 1942 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $16,640 |
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Lot 101 Alcoholics Anonymous, inscribed Bill Wilson, 1951 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $7,040 |
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Lot 102 The Ashendene Press Ecclesiasticus Printed on vellum, 1932 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $30,720 |
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Lot 103 John Cheever's Stories Inscribed to his daughter and with related letters, 1978-1980 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 |
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Lot 104 Falconer John Cheever, 1977 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 |
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Lot 105 A bet on the future of the British Empire Winston Churchill, 1901 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 106 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke, 1953 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $2,816 |
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Lot 107 Five early papers on DNA Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, Maurice Wilkins, et al., 1953–1955 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $8,960 |
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Lot 108 First papers on DNA, signed by Watson & Crick Nature, 25 April and 30 May 1953 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $14,080 |
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Lot 109 Hans Einstein's copy, on statistical mechanics Albert Einstein, 1904 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $6,400 |
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Lot 110 Annus mirabilis papers Albert Einstein, 1905 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $15,360 |
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Lot 111 \"Über das Relativitätsprinzip und die aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen\",... Albert Einstein, 1908 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 112 Wave-Duality of Light Einstein, Albert, 1909 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $5,376 |
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Lot 113 Einstien's first two papers on gravitational waves: \"Näherungsweise Integration... Albert Einstein, 1916; 1918 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $6,400 |
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Lot 114 Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung, offprint issue Albert Einstein, 1917 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $15,360 |
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Lot 115 Relativity: The Special and the General Theory Albert Einstein, 1920 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $10,880 |
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Lot 116 On the place of mathematics in physics Albert Einstein, 1921 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 |
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Lot 117 An attempt at a new unified theory Albert Einstein, 28 July 1925 |
estimate $50,000 - $70,000 |
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Lot 118 Albert Einstein: Philosopher–Scientist Albert Einstein, 1949 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $9,600 |
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Lot 119 Letter to Michele Besso Albert Einstein, 1952 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $11,520 |
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Lot 120 Lamp with reproduction Einstein TLS [Albert Einstein, 1953] |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $9,600 |
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Lot 121 Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics Richard Feynman's copy |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $64,000 |
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Lot 122 Talk on electrostatic and high-energy accelerators Richard Feynman, 1948 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 123 Richard Feynman on Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem Lecture notes and annotated book, c.1960 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $21,760 |
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Lot 124 Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals Richard Feynman and A.R. Hibbs, 1965 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $23,040 |
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Lot 125 Addition, defined via subtraction Richard Feynman, c.1969 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $7,680 |
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Lot 126 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $76,800 |
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Lot 127 Penicillum notatum presentation sample Alexander Fleming, 1945 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $12,160 |
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Lot 128 Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development Robert Goddard, 1936 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $25,600 |
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Lot 129 Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls Kurt Gödel, 1930 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 |
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Lot 130 \"Zum Entscheidungsproblem des logischen Funktionenkalküls\" Kurt Gödel, 1933 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $6,400 |
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Lot 131 Love is Hell Signed first edition by Matt Groening, 1984 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $3,328 |
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Lot 132 Stephen Hawking's copy Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, 1992 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $5,120 |
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Lot 133 Autograph letter to Moritz Schlick Werner Heisenberg, 27 December 1930 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $51,200 |
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Lot 134 On the history and future of particle physics Werner Heisenberg, 1964 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 |
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Lot 136 One of his earliest letters extant Ernest Hemingway, 9 June [1909] |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $5,120 |
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Lot 137 \"This newspaper business is the life.\" Ernest Hemingway, 1918 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $8,320 |
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Lot 138 Announcing the birth of his son and his first published book Ernest Hemingway, 1923 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 |
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Lot 139 In Our Time Ernest Hemingway, 1924 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $30,720 |
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Lot 140 Offering advice on writing Ernest Hemingway, 26 September [1928] |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $8,960 |
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Lot 141 Death in the Afternoon, inscribed Ernest Hemingway, 1932 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 142 Critiquing Gertrude Stein Ernest Hemingway, 1933 |
estimate $3,500 - $4,500 price realized $8,320 |
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Lot 143 \"The real secret in writing a novel is...\" Ernest Hemingway, 1934 |
estimate $3,500 - $4,500 price realized $7,680 |
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Lot 144 Green Hills of Africa, inscribed Ernest Hemingway, 1935 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $5,120 |
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Lot 145 \"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber\" Ernest Hemingway, 1936 |
estimate $200,000 - $300,000 price realized $256,000 |
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Lot 146 Forbidding his sister the use of Windermere Ernest Hemingway, [1937] |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 price realized $1,664 |
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Lot 148 Contributions from the Mount Wilson Observatory Edwin Hubble, 1925-1942 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 149 The Constitution of India Constituent Assembly, 1950 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 price realized $30,720 |
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Lot 150 Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol April 2001 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $20,480 |
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Lot 151 Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy, 1956 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,072 |
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Lot 152 Autograph letter to Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac, 1945 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $8,960 |
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Lot 153 Typed letter to Allen Ginsberg with small drawing Jack Kerouac, 1947 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 154 Typed letter to Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac, 1948 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 |
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Lot 155 \"Golden Jack\" Jack Kerouac, 1949 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 |
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Lot 156 \"I sold my novel to Harcourt Brace\" Jack Kerouac, 29 March 1949 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 |
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Lot 157 Writing On the Road “at night, till dawn” Jack Kerouac, 28 April 1949 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 |
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Lot 158 Writing, his time at Columbia, and Burroughs living in exile Jack Kerouac, 9 November 1949 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 159 \"Plan for Artistic Creation\" for The Vanity of St Louis Jack Kerouac, 1951 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 |
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Lot 160 On Malcolm Cowley and titles for On the Road Jack Kerouac, 6 August 1953 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 161 Maggie Cassidy, inscribed Jack Kerouac, 1959 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $30,720 |
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Lot 162 Typed letter signed to his girlfriend Lois Sorrells in New York City Jack Kerouac, 1960 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 |
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Lot 163 General Theory of Employment Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes, 1936 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $12,160 |
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Lot 164 “1777 Variables in the Magellanic Clouds” Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 1908 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $15,360 |
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Lot 165 The Story of Project Mercury, America's Man-in-Space Program Presentation copy, signed by all of the Mercury Seven |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $7,680 |
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Lot 166 Collection of historic microchips Various, [c.1954–c.1986] |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $19,200 |
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Lot 167 Theory and Techniques for Design of Electronic Digital Computers Moore School Lectures, 1947–1948 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $5,120 |
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Lot 168 Lecture on the Evolution of Cooperative Behavior John Forbes Nash Jr., 1990 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $11,520 |
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Lot 169 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell, 1949 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $15,360 |
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Lot 170 The Nature of the Chemical Bond Linus Pauling, 1931 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $8,320 |
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Lot 171 Pablo Picasso Christian Zervos, 1942–1986 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $30,720 |
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Lot 172 The first fully secure mobile phone in a presidential limousine Installed for President Ronald Reagan, April 1984 |
estimate $50,000 - $80,000 price realized $64,000 |
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Lot 173 FDR, Missy Lehand, and Grace Tully Photograph signed by FDR as President and by his personal secretaries |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $1,280 |
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Lot 174 Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, 1951 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $12,800 |
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Lot 175 Franny and Zooey, inscribed J.D. Salinger, 1961 |
estimate $30,000 - $40,000 price realized $30,720 |
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Lot 176 Photographs of the Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott Reginald Skelton, 1901-1904 44 photographs (127 × 86mm and 108 × 83mm), of which 40 are mounted (102 × 76mm by sight; all over 159 × 127mm) and 4 unmounted in a paper envelope. (Condition varies, some silvering and fading and a few occasional foxmarks; overall very good.) |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 177 The Heart of the Antarctic Ernest Shackleton, 1909 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $28,160 |
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Lot 178 An expansive archive from the Nikola Tesla Company and Niagara Falls Power... Edward Dean Adams, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and others, ca. 1890-1929 |
estimate $50,000 - $80,000 price realized $115,200 |
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Lot 179 \"The Problem of Increasing Human Energy\" Nikola Tesla, 1900 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $8,320 |
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Lot 180 Organizing a reception for Prince Heinrich of Prussia Edward Adams, George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, et al. February |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $25,600 |
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Lot 181 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937 |
estimate $60,000 - $80,000 price realized $217,600 |
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Lot 182 Invention of the Transistor Physical Review journals, 1948-1951 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $5,376 |
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Lot 183 On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem Alan Turing, 1936 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 price realized $38,400 |
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Lot 184 \"Computing Machinery and intelligence\" Alan Turing, 1950 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $16,640 |
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Lot 185 How to Play Poker... John von Neumann, Princeton, 1941 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 |
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Lot 186 Theory of Games and Economic Behavior John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, 1944 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $7,680 |
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Lot 187 Planning and Coding of Problems for Electronic Computing Instrument John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, 1947 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $7,680 |
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Lot 188 Recent Theories of Turbulence John von Neumann, 1950 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 189 The Pale Blue Dot Voyager 1 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.) |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $6,400 |
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Lot 190 Center of the Milky Way NASA 20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.) |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $1,024 |
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Lot 191 Large format photo of Halley's Comet NASA, 1986 11 x 14in. (27.9 x 35.6cm) |
estimate $3,000 - $4,000 price realized $2,816 |
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Lot 192 The first photograph of Earth and Moon together Voyager 1, 18 September 1977 14 x 11in. (35.6 x 27.9cm.) |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $25,600 |
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Lot 193 Very large format photograph of the crescents of Uranus and Titania Voyager 2 24 x 20in. (61 x 50.8cm) |
estimate $30,000 - $40,000 price realized $20,480 |
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Lot 194 Eruptions on Io Voyager 2 11 x 14in. (27.9 x 35.6cm.) |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $1,664 |
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Lot 195 A colour enhanced view of the sunset on Mars Viking 1 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.) |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $1,152 |
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Lot 196 The first photograph of the surface of Mars [large format] Viking 1 10 7/8 x 13 7/8in. (27.7 x 35.1cm.) |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $3,840 |
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Lot 197 The first color photograph taken on the surface of Mars, the Red Planet Viking 1, 20 July 1976 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.) |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $1,920 |
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Lot 198 The first color photograph taken on the surface of Venus Venera 13 [NASA printing] 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.) |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $1,408 |
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Lot 199 First evidence of Jupiter's rings Voyager 1 14 x 11in. (35.6 x 27.9cm) |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $768 |
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Lot 200 A black and white still from Venera 13's landing on Venus Venera 13 [NASA printing] 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.) |
estimate $1,000 - $2,000 price realized $640 |
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Lot 201 The Hubble Deep Field Hubble Space Telescope 11 x 14in. (35.2 x 28.0cm.) 13 x 16in. (33 x40.5cm.) on mount |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $5,120 |
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Lot 202 A very large format Martian stereoscopic panorama NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 60 x 19 ¼in. (152.5 x 49cm.) |
estimate $15,000 - $20,000 |
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Lot 203 Very large format photograph of Jupiter and its satellites Voyager 1 20 x 19 ¼in. (50.6 x 49cm.) |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $10,240 |
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Lot 204 Sunset on Mars Viking 1 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.) |
estimate $3,000 - $4,000 price realized $2,560 |
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Lot 205 Rocky Martian plain [large format] Viking 2 14 x 11in. (35.6 x 27.9cm.) |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $768 |
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Lot 206 The utopian plain of Mars Viking 2 14 x 11in. (35.6 x 27.9cm.) |
estimate $3,000 - $4,000 price realized $2,176 |
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Lot 207 Triptych of large format photographs of Mars Viking 1 19 ¼ x 16in. (49 x 40.7cm.) |
estimate $15,000 - $20,000 |
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Lot 208 A parting shot of Neptune from Voyager 2 Voyager 2 11 x 14in. (27.9 x 35.6cm.) |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $2,048 |
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Lot 209 The Red Planet Hubble Space Telescope 11 x 14in. (27.9 x 35.6cm.) |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $2,048 |
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Lot 210 Saturn casting a shadow on its rings Voyager 1, 3 December 1980 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9cm.) |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 price realized $14,080 |
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