RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifacts Featuring Science & Technology and Animation, 705, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024

Page Size: 819 items in 33 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
131		Nelson Mandela Signed Limited Edition 'Key & Bars' Lithograph and Replica Key			USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,781.00
132		Florence Nightingale Autograph Letter Signed: "I send you my little mite for Dr. Livingstone's Search"		1872	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,276.00
134		Elon Musk Signed Photograph			USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,995.00
135		Elon Musk Signed Photograph			USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,868.00
136		Charles Babbage Autograph Letter Signed, Proposing a Royal Astronomical Society Comet Medal		1820	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 2,505.00
137	Charles Babbage	Charles Babbage Signed Book - Observations on the Analogy Which Subsists Between the Calculus of Functions	London	1817	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 2,505.00
138	Charles Babbage	Charles Babbage Signed Book - An Examination of Some Questions Connected with Games of Chance	Edinburgh:	1820	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 4,441.00
139	Charles Babbage	Charles Babbage Signed Book - On the Application of Analysis to the Discovery of Local Theorems and Porisms	Edinburgh:	1822	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 2,505.00
140		Charles Babbage Autograph Letter Signed		1849	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,251.00
141		Edouard Branly Autograph Manuscript Signed - Draft of His Communication to the Academy of Sciences Exposing the Principles of Wireless Telegraphy		1890	USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	Not Sold
142	Marie Curie	Marie Curie's Scientific Pamphlets - 'Fundamental Properties of the Elements' and 'Etude des Trajectoires des Rayons'	Washington, D.C.,	1912	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
143		Marie Curie Document Signed - Certificate of Assay for the Emission of Radiation		1924	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,633.00
144		Thomas Edison World War I-Dated Typed Letter Signed on Submarine Explosives		1917	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
145		Thomas Edison Autograph Letter Signed to the Prince of Wales: "I have received the Albert Medal which was awarded to me by the Council of the Society of Arts"		1892	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
146		Thomas Edison Signature			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,251.00
147		Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on Unified Field Theory with Gravitational Equations (including his favorite, aEUoeRik =0aEU)		1929	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 32,050.00
148		Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on the History of Special Relativity, Discussing the "Michelson Experiment" and Lorentz Transformations		1947	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 25,438.00
149		Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on Humanity: "If quantity would substitute for quality we'd be in great shape"		1937	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
150		Leonhard Euler Incredibly Rare Autograph Mathematical Manuscript Signed: "On the Resolution of the Differential Equation axadx = dy+yA2dx"		no date but likely circa 1730s	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 48,721.00
151		George Gamow Autograph Letter Signed: "Hope to plunge again in the nuclear buzness on my arrival"		1934	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
152		Carl Friedrich Gauss Rare Autograph Letter Signed, Requesting a Theodolite: "Without it, I can do nothing"		1821	USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 18,300.00
153		Google: Sergey Brin Signed Check for Google's First Office Space (January 1999) - PSA MINT 9		1999	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 5,025.00
154		Google: Larry Page Signed Check to King Star Computers - PSA MINT 9		1999	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,008.00
155		Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed on Extraterrestrial Life: "In 1899 I detected feeble impulses emanating from Mars"		1937	USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	USD 55,000.00
156		Steve Jobs Signed 1976 Apple Computer Check to Quement Electronics		1976	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	USD 33,219.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD