RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifacts Featuring Science & Technology and Animation, 705, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024

Page Size: 819 items in 33 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
157		Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Autograph Letter Signed on the Mathematics of Determining the Astronomical Date of Easter		1700	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 18,750.00
158		Isaac Newton Handwritten Manuscript on Religion, Concerning a Translation of the Nicene Creed and the True Doctrine of Christ		no date.	USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 69,870.00
159		Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists (60) Signed Cover Collection, with Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, and Linus Pauling		1914-1959	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,708.00
160		Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed to a Manhattan Project Employee "essential to the development of the atomic bomb"		1945	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 17,179.00
161		Ron Wayne's Apple II Advance Order Information Brochure		1977	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
164		Cuff-style Brass Microscope by George Sterrop (c. 1750)		circa 1750	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	Not Sold
169		Aquatic Interest Books: A Manual of the Sea-Anemones and The Family Aquarium	London	1856	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 183.00
173	George M. Sternberg	Photo-Micrographs and How to Make Them by George M. Sternberg	Boston:	1883	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
175		UNIVAC I Computer 'Ring Counter' Vacuum Tube Assembly and Brochure			USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 13,949.00
178		Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed: "Psychoanalysis does not always fantasize but often only discloses what was kept secret"		1912	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
179		Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on the First Psychoanalytic Journal		1909	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
180		Carl Jung Typed Letter Signed		1953	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,516.00
181		Jean-Jacques Rousseau Handwritten Manuscripts on Isabella of Valois and Pope Sixtus V		no date but circa 1745-1750.	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 10,005.00
182		Henry M. Stanley and David Livingstone Letter and Signature Display		1896	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,378.00
184		William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Signed Photograph			USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,069.00
185		William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody Typed Letter Signed, Recommending a Long-Term Employee of Buffalo Bill's Wild West		1897	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,283.00
186		Carlo Gambino Signed Check		1963	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
188		9/11: 'Brooks Brothers, September 12, 2001' Oversized Photograph by Sean Hemmerle		2001	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
189	Charles Babbage	Charles Babbage: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (First Edition)	London:	1832	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 833.00
190	Charles Babbage	Charles Babbage: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (Second Edition Enlarged)	London:	1832	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 368.00
191	Charles Babbage	Charles Babbage: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (Third Edition Enlarged)	London:	1833	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 491.00
192		Charles Babbage: "Observations on the Notation employed in the Calculus of Functions" from the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society		1820	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
193		Charles Babbage: "On a Method of Expressing by Signs the Action of Machinery"		1826	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
194		Charles Babbage: "On the Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning"		1821	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
195	Charles Babbage	Charles Babbage: A Review of "Reflexions on the Decline of Science in England"		1830	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 125.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD

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