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Auction Date
July 10, 2025 - July 10, 2025
Page Size: 222 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
158 Curtis (William)

[Collection of plates from The Botanical Magazine]

[c.1788-97] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,397.00
159 Martyn (Thomas)

Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations: Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables

1788 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
160 Loudon (John Claudius)

Observations on the Formation and Management of Useful and Ornamental Plantations

Edinburgh 1804 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 215.90
161 Goedaert (Johannes)

Metamorphosis et historia naturalis insectorum

Middelburg [1662]. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
162 Boutcher (William)

A Treatise on Forest-Trees

1775 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
163 Price (Richard)

Observations on the Expectations of Lives, the Increase of Mankind

1769 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
164 Bessel (Friedrich Wilhelm)

Fundamenta Astronomiae pro anno MDCCLV

1818 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
165 [Costard (George)]

A Letter to Martin Folkes...concerning the Rise and Progress of Astronomy amongst the Antients

1746 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 330.20
166 Babbage (Charles) Sheepshanks (Richard)

A Letter to the Board of Visitors of the Greenwich Royal Observatory

1860 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
167 Turing (Alan)

Faster than thought. A Symposium on digital computing machines

1953 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
168 ?? Please note the description of this lot has changed ?? Einstein (Albert)

The Theory of Relativity, The Special & The General Theory

1920 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 584.20
169 Pasteur (Louis)

Memoire sur la Fermentation Alcoolique, in Annales de Chimie et de Physique vol.LVIII

Paris 1860 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
170 Fullone (Abel)

Descrittione et Uso Dell'Holometro per saper misurare tutte le cose

Venice 1564 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 558.80
171 Harris (Joseph)

The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery

1767 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
172 Alence (Joachim d')

Traite de l'Aiman

Amsterdam 1687 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
173 Mairan (Jean-Jacques Dortous de)

Dissertation sur la Glace

Paris 1749 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
174 Cauchy (Augustin-Louis)

Nouveaux Exercices de Mathematiques

1835 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 406.40
175 Gua de Malves (Jean Paul de)

Usages de l'Analyse de Descartes

Paris 1740 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
176 Henrion (Denis)

Usage du Compas de Proportion

Paris 1624 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
177 Lagrange (Joseph Louis)

Lecons sur le calcul des fonctions, in Seances des Ecoles Normales

Paris 1801 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
178 Mengoli (Pietro)

Circolo

Bologna 1672 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
179 Peano (Guiseppe)

Calcolo Geometrico secondo l'Ausdehnungslehre di H. Grassmann. Preceduto dalle Operazioni della logica deduttiva

Turin 1888 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 482.60
180 Schwenter (Daniel)

Geometriae Practicae Noivae et Auctae

Nuremberg 1627 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
181 Vasiliev (Prof. Alexander)

Nikolaj Iwanowitsch Lobatschefskij

Leipzig 1895 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
182 Wingate (Edmund)

Mr. Wingate's Arithmetick

1735 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 44.45
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