Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1174, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 29, 2025 - May 29, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256 | Gregory (David) | Astronomiae Physicae & Geometricae Elementa |
Oxford | 1702 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 257 | Lansbergen (Phillipus van) | Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuae |
Middelberg | 1632 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 756.00 |
| 258 | Wing (Vincent) | Astronomia Britannica |
1669 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 2,142.00 | |
| 259 | Dalton (John) | A New System of Chemical Philosophy |
1842 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 260 | Scheele (Carl Wilhelm) | Chemische Abhandlung von der Lust und dem Feuer |
Upsala and Leipzig | 1777 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,040.00 |
| 261 | Darwin (Charles) | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
1859 | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | GBP 98,280.00 | |
| 262 | Ampere (Andre Marie) and Jacques Babinet. | Expose des Nouvelles Decouvertes sur l'Electricite et le Magnetisme |
Paris | 1822 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 630.00 |
| 263 | Bramer (Benjamin) | Beschreibunge und Underricht wie allerley Theylungen zu den Mathematischen Instrumenten zu verfertigen |
Marburg | 1615 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 264 | Guericke (Otto von) | Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio |
Amsterdam | 1672 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 265 | Castelli (Benedetto) | Della Misura dell'Acque Correnti |
Rome | 1628 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 529.20 |
| 266 | Huygens (Christiaan) | Traite de la lumiere. Ou sont expliquees les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion |
Leiden | 1690 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 17,640.00 |
| 267 | Gilbert (William) | De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de mango magnete |
1600 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 21,420.00 | |
| 268 | Babbage (Charles) | The Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning, presentation copy from author, |
Cambridge | 1826 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 269 | Baldi (Bernardo) | Cronica de Matematici |
Urbino | 1707 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 693.00 |
| 270 | Gauss (Carl Friedrich) | A collection of 60 pamphlets from Gausss's library, on mathematics, astronomy, magnetism, and other topics |
v.p. | v. d. | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 271 | Henrion (Denis) | Usage du Compas de Proportion |
Paris | 1618 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 272 | Lagrange (Joseph Louis) | Theorie des Fonctions Analytiques |
Paris | 1797 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 273 | Mydorge (Claude) | Prodromi catoptricorum et dioptricorum sive conicorum operis |
Paris | 1639 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 274 | Ursinus (Benjamin) | Cursus Mathematici Practici |
Colln an der Spree [now Berlin] | 1618 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 275 | Wallis (John) | Arithmetica Infinitorum |
Oxford | 1656 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 276 | Whitehead (Alfred North) and Bertrand Russell. | Principia Mathematica |
Cambridge | 1910-13 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 22,680.00 |
| 277 | Lefevre d'Etaples (Jacques) | Charles de Bo[u]velles and Josse Clichtove. Epitome compendiosaq[ue] introductio in libros arithmeticos divi Severini Boetii |
Paris | 1503 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 278 | de la Roche (Estienne) | Larismethique nouellement composee... |
Lyon | 1520 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 279 | Lagrange (Joseph Louis) | Mechanique analitique |
Paris | 1788 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 280 | Newton (Sir Isaac) | The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
1729 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
