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Christie’s Important Scientific Books: The Richard Green Library
Christie’s Important Scientific Books: The Richard Green Library
New York - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Sale no: 2013 - Top Ten
[All sold prices include buyer’s premium]
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Sold: |
$11,019,688 |
£5,622,289 |
€7,109,476 |
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Lots Sold: 289 |
Lots Offered: 346 |
Sold by Lot: 84% |
Sold by $: 97% |
| Exchange Rate: £ = $1.96 / € = $1.55 | |||
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Lot |
Description |
Estimate ($)
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Purchase Price |
Buyer |
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60 |
Copernicus, Nicolaus, De revolutionibus orbium colestium, libri V, 1543.A WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR COPERNICUS | $900,000-1,200,000 | $2,210,500 £1,127,806 €1,426,129 |
U.K. Trade |
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248 |
Medina, Pedro de, Arte de navegar, 1545.A WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR MEDINA | $200,000-300,000 | $578,500 £295,153 €373,225 |
U.S. Trade |
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130 |
Galilei, Galileo, Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare, 1606.A WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR GALILEI | $200,000-300,000 | $506,500£258,418 €346,774 |
U.S. Private |
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207 |
Kepler, Johannes, Harmonices mundi libri, 1619. | $30,000-40,000 | $362,500£184,948 €233,870 |
U.K. Trade |
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100 |
Einstein, Albert, Collection of 130 offprints of his own scientific papers, 1900-1925. | $150,000-250,000 | $314,500£160,459 €202,903 |
European Trade |
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132 |
Galilei, Galileo, Sindereus nuncios magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens, 1610. | $150,000-250,000 | $290,500£148,214 €187,419 |
U.S. Trade |
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50 |
Cellarius, Andreas, Harmonia macrocosmica sev atlas universalis et novus, totius universi create cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens, 1600. | $80,000-120,000 | $266,500£135,969 €171,935 |
U.S. Trade |
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72 |
Darwin, Charles, For Private Distribution … Extracts from Letters addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq., December 1, 1835. | $60,000-80,000 | $230,500£117,602 €148,709 |
U.S. Trade |
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131 |
Galilei, Galileo, Difesa di Galileo Galilei … contro alle calunnie & imposture di Baldessar Capra, 1607. | $150,000-250,000 | $230,500£117,602 €148,709 |
U.S. Private |
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204 |
Kepler, Johannes, Astronomia nova AITIO?O?HTO?, seu physica coelestis, tradita commentaries de motibus stellae martis, ex observationibus G.V. Tychonis Brahe, 1609. | $150,000-200,000 | $230,500£117,602 €148,709 |
U.S. Trade |
| Tom Lecky, Head of Books and Manuscripts of New York comments: “The superb results of Important Scientific Books: The Richard Green Library, with many books not seen on the market for decades, confirmed the strength of the scientific field, and more than doubled presale expectations. The highlight of the sale was the exceedingly fine copy of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus, 1543, which made a world auction record of $2.2 million against an estimate of $900,000-1,200,000. The sale established records for numerous authors, including Galileo and Pedro de Medina, and achieved a remarkable result for a major work from the modern era: Alan Turing’s “On Computable Numbers,” 1936, realizing an astounding $182,500 against an estimate of $20,000-30,000. Garnering immense international press coverage was the 1878 New Haven Telephone Directory which sold for $170,500 against an estimate of $30,000-40,000.” | |
| Date and Location of Next Sale | New York, October 3, 2008 |
