Bonhams: Books, Atlases, and Manuscripts, 30732, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 236 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 WILLYAMS (COOPER)

A Voyage of the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, 1802; and others, military and naval

 1802 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 640.00
52

ASTRONOMY -- MANUSCRIPT Manuscript celestial chart titled "The Comet's Path 1807"

 1807 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
53 BABBAGE (CHARLES)

Table of Logarithms

 1827 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,920.00
54 BABBAGE (CHARLES)

Autograph manuscript of amendments to the footnotes of the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise

 [c.1837] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 832.00
55 BABBAGE (CHARLES)

Metal storage wheel from Babbage's 1864 plan for the Analytical Engine

 [n.p.] [2 January 1865] GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 12,800.00
56 [BERKELEY (GEORGE)]

The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician

 1734 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,320.00
57 CASSINI (JACQUES)

Elements d'Astronomie [with] Tables Astronomiques du Soleil

 Paris 1740 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 512.00
58 CLAIRAUT (ALEXIS CLAUDE)

Theorie de la figure de la terre, tiree des principes de l'hydrostatique

 Paris 1743 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 256.00
59 DARWIN (CHARLES)

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection

 1860 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,400.00
60 DARWIN (CHARLES)

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection...

 1872 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 640.00
61 DAVY (HUMPHRY)

Elements of Chemical Philosophy, 1812; and 2 others

 1812 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,408.00
62 DONOVAN (EDWARD)

An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China, 1798; History of the Insects of India, 1800; Harris. English Insects, 1782

 1798[-1799] GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
63 OLIVER BYRNE

EUCLID - BYRNE (OLIVER) The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learner, [Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for] William Pickering

 1847 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,320.00
64 EULER (LEONHARD)

Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes

 Lausanne and Geneva 1744 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,072.00
65 GERARD (JOHN)

The Herball or General Historie of Plantes... very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers

 1636 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,664.00
66 HAWKING (STEPHEN)

A Brief History of Time

 [2011] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,304.00
67 HIGGS (PROFESSOR PETER)

The remaining scientific library of Nobel Prize-winner Professor Peter Higgs

 1937-2000s GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 12,800.00
68 HUYGENS (CHRISTIAN)

The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

 1722 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
69 LILFORD (THOMAS L. POWYS, Lord)

Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands

 1885-1897 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,536.00
70 MACLAURIN (COLIN)

A Treatise of Fluxions

 1742 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
71 DAWKES (THOMAS)

MIDWIFERY The Midwife Rightly Instructed, or the Way, Which All Women Desirous to Learn... [to] be successful in the Practice of the Art of Midwifery

 1736 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 614.40
72 NEWTON (ISAAC)

Optice sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus, et Coloribus Lucis Libris Tres

 1706 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,560.00
73 NEWTON (ISAAC)

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms

 1728 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,584.00
74 NEWTON (ISAAC)

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John

 1733 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,024.00
75 NEWTON (ISAAC)

Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John

 1733 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,216.00
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