Sothebys: History of Science and Technology, N12210, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 15, 2026 - July 15, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Edison Thomas A | The Newly Incorporated Edison Electric Light Company; Trust Agreement |
1878 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 7 | Edison Thomas A | Agreement for Manufacture of Lamps |
1881; 1888 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 8 | Edison Thomas A | 6 Books, including: Agreement for Edison Electric Light Company to grant funds |
1881; 1883; 1885 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 9 | Edison Thomas A | 3 Books, including: Report of Special Committee on Unsettled Claims and Contract of Mutual Release |
1885; 1886; 1887; 1920s | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 10 | Edison Thomas A | Typed Letter Signed |
New York | 1886 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Unknown |
| 11 | Silver Gelatin Print Photograph |
New York | 1915 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 12 | Einstein Albert | Autograph Quotation Signed |
1927 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 13 | Feynman Melville | Autograph letter signed |
1938 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 14 | Feynman Richard P | Autograph letter |
Princeton | 1939 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 15 | Feynman Richard P | Autograph letter signed |
Princeton | 1940 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 16 | Feynman Richard P | Autograph letter signed |
c. 1941-44 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 17 | Feynman Richard P | Autograph letter signed |
Santa Fe, N. Mex. | 1943 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 18 | Feynman Richard P | 40 autograph letters signed |
Los Alamos, Nw Mexico | 1945 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Unknown |
| 19 | Feynman Richard P | Autograph letter signed |
c. 1945-46 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 20 | Wheeler John | Typed letter signed |
Princeton, New Jersey | N/A | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 22 | Feynman Richard P; Morinigo Fernando B; Wagner William G | 6 Books, including: Lectures on Gravitation |
Pasadena, California; Copenhagen, Denmark | 1971; ca 1962-63; 1973 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Unknown |
| 29 | Geis Irving | Hot Wire A-DNA |
New York | 1996 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 30 | Ticho Harold Klein | Harold Ticho Physics Archive |
N/A | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 33 | Shannon Claude E | A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits |
New York | 1938 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
| 34 | Wiener Norbert | The Extrapolation, Interpolation and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series with Engineering Applications |
Cambridge, MA | 1942 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 35 | Bush Vannevar | As We May Think; Endless Horizons |
Concord, NH; Washington, D.C. | 1945; 1946 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 36 | Aiken Howard H; Hopper Grace M | A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator |
Cambridge, MA | 1946 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 37 | Shannon Claude | A Mathematical Theory of Communication |
New York | 1948 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 38 | Bardeen John; Brattain Walter; Shockley William | 6 Books, including: The Transistor, A Semi-Conductor Triode |
Lancaster, PA; New York | 1948; 1949; 1951; 1952 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
| 39 | Shannon Claude; Oliver B.M.; Pierce J.R.; Weaver Warren | 6 Books, including: The Philosophy of PCM |
New York; Urbana; Philadelphia | 1948; 1949; 1951; 1953; 1955 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 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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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000