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Auction Date
August 28, 2025 - August 28, 2025
Page Size: 324 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

Five volumes by or about Charles Darwin

1868-1889 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
27 Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

London 1871 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,687.50
28 Darwin, Charles

The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

London 1876 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
29 Darwin, Charles

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

London 1872 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
30 Darwin, Charles

Four titles by Charles Darwin

1869-1877 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 812.50
31 Darwin, Charles

Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.

New York 1846 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,187.50
32 Darwin, Charles

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter

London 1887 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
33 Darwin, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

New York 1860 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,000.00
34 Darwin, Charles

The Origin of Species [with] The Formation of Vegetable Mould

1872-1882 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
35 Darwin, Charles

Six early American editions of titles by Charles Darwin

New York 1873-1882 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
36 Darwin, Charles

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

London 1868 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
37 De Sitter, Willem

On the Foundations of the Theory of Relativity, with Special Reference to the Theory of the Expanding Universe

Amsterdam 1934 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
38 Descourtilz, Jean Theodore

Ornitologia Brasileira: Ou, Historia Natural das Aves do Brasil

Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo [1944] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
39 Watson, James and Francis Crick

Photograph signed by Watson and Crick

c.1960 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
40 Watson, James and Francis Crick

Print of DNA signed by Watson & Crick

No date USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
41 Douglas, David

Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America 1823-1827...

London 1914 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
42 Dykes, W.R.

Notes on Tulip Species

London [1930] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
43 Dykes, William Rickatson

The Genus Iris

Cambridge 1913 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
44 Eddington, A. S.

The Nature of the Physical World

Cambridge 1928 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
45 Plaut, Frederick, photographer

Frederick Plaut photograph of Albert Einstein

1954 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
46 Einstein, Albert

Allgemeine Relativitatstheorie und Bewegungsgesetz

Berlin 1927 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
47 Einstein, Albert

Autograph note signed by Albert Einstein

c.1925? USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
48 Einstein, Albert

Uber den Ather

Braunschweig 1924 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
49 Einstein, Albert

Uber die Interferenzeigenschaften des durch Kanalstrahlen emittierten Lichtes von A. Einstein. Uber die Interferenzeigenschaften des Kanalstrahllichtes von Dr. E. Rupp

Berlin 1926 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
50 Einstein, Albert

Uber eine naheliegende Erganzung des Fundamentes der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie

1921 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,375.00
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