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Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 23, 2026 - July 23, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | Hilbert David; von Neumann John; Nordheim Lothar | Uber die Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik |
Berlin | 1928 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 78 | Jack Richard | Elements of conic sections in three books |
Edinburgh | 1742 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 79 | Nash John Forbes Jr. | Real Algebraic Manifolds |
1952; 1963; 1966; 1984 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 80 | Newton Isaac | Arithmetica Universalis: sive de Compositione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber |
1722 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 81 | De Morgan Augustus | Formal logic: or, the calculus of inference, necessary and probable |
1847 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 82 | Maupertuis Pierre-Louis Moreau de | The Figure of the Earth, determined from Observations made by Order of the French King, at the Polar Circle |
1738 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 83 | Paraire John | Modern Universal Table |
1756 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 84 | Ditton Humphry | An institution of fluxions |
1726 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 85 | Spare Austin Osman | The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy |
1913 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 86 | Pauli Wolfgang | Uber die Intensitat der Streustrahlung bewegter freier Elektronen |
Basil | 1933 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 87 | Arago Francois Jean Dominique | Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences |
Paris | 1839-1844 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 88 | Bouger Pierre | Essai d'Optique sur la Gradation de la Lumiere |
Paris | 1729 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 89 | Larmor Joseph | A Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium |
1894-1898 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 90 | Broglie Louis-Victor de | Ondes et quanta; Quanta de lumiere, diffraction et interferences; Les quanta, la theorie cinetique des gaz et le principe de Fermat |
Paris | 1923 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 91 | Broglie Louis-Victor de | L'univers a cinq dimensions et la mecanique ondulatoire |
Paris | 1927 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 92 | Journal de Physique et le Radium |
Paris | 1920-1926 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 93 | Becquerel Henri; Curie Marie | 4 Books, including: Six papers documenting Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity and the properties of Uranium |
Paris | 1896 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 94 | Saussure Theodore de | Recherches Chimiques sur la Vegetation |
Paris | 1804 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 95 | Celsius Anders | Observationer om tvanne bestandiga Grader pa en Thermometer |
Stockholm | 1742 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 96 | Hodgson J.E. | The First English Aeronaut: James Sadler of Oxford (1753--1828) |
1928 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 97 | Roentgen Conrad Wilhelm | On a New Kind of Rays |
1896 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 98 | Stanley Henry Morton | The Congo and the Founding of its Free State |
1885 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 99 | Gordon William | The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America |
1788 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 100 | Dunn Henry | Guatimala, or, the Republic of Central America, in 1827-8 |
1829 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 101 | Stanford Edward | Map of the Seat of War in America |
1861 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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