Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana, 22661, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 28, 2025 - January 28, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | COPERNICUS, Nicolaus (1473-1543). - Georg Johann RHETICUS (1514-1574). | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. - De libris revolutionum Nicolai Copernici Narratio prima. |
Basel | 1566 | USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 163,800.00 |
| 77 | COPERNICUS, Nicholas (1473-1543). | Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui de revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribuntur. Commentary by Nicholaus MULLER |
Amsterdam | 1617 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 15,120.00 |
| 78 | DIGGES, Thomas (c.1546-1595). | Alae seu scalae mathematicae. |
London | 1573 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 11,970.00 |
| 79 | DIGGES, Leonard (c.1515-c.1559) and DIGGES, Thomas (1546-1595), editor. | A Prognostication everlasting of ryght good effecte. |
[London | 1592.] | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 23,940.00 |
| 80 | EUCLID (fl. c.300 B.C.) | The Elements of Geometrie. Translated into English by Sir Henry Billingsley (d. 1606), with a preface by John Dee (1527-1608). |
London | 1570 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 27,720.00 |
| 81 | FLAMSTEED, John (1649-1719). | Historiae coelestis libri duo. |
London | 1712 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 176,400.00 |
| 82 | GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo (1538-1621). | Speculum Uranicum. |
Venice | 1593 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 8,190.00 |
| 83 | GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). | Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. |
Rome | 1613 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 11,970.00 |
| 84 | GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1641). | Dialogo ... sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. |
Florence | 1632 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 100,800.00 |
| 85 | GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). | Systema cosmicum ... Ex Italica lingua Latine conversum. |
Strasbourg | 1635 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 10,710.00 |
| 86 | GARCAEUS, Johannes (1530-1574). | Primus[--Tertius] tractatus. |
Wittenburg | 1563-1565-1565. | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 4,410.00 |
| 87 | GREAVES, John (1602-1652). | Astronomica quaedam ex traditione Shah Cholgii Persae. |
London | 1652 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 15,120.00 |
| 88 | HEVELIUS, Johann (1611-1687). | Mercurius, in sole visus Gedani. |
Danzig | 1662 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 37,800.00 |
| 89 | ODIERNA, Joannes Baptista (1597-1660). | Medicaeorum ephemerides. |
Palermo | 1656 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,016.00 |
| 90 | HOOKE, Robert (1635-1703). | An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth. |
London | 1674 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 15,120.00 |
| 91 | HUYGENS, Christiaan (1629-1695). | Systema Saturnium. |
The Hague | 1659 | USD 25,000.00 - 45,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 92 | HUYGENS, Christiaan (1629-1695). | The Celestial Worlds Discover'd. |
London | 1698 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 10,080.00 |
| 93 | JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (fl. 1230). -- PEUERBACH, Georg (1423--1461). | Sphaera mundi. - Theoricae novae planetarum. With commentary by Franciscus Capuanus. |
Venice | 23 October 1499 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 11,340.00 |
| 94 | JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (fl. 1230) | Le cuer de philozophie. |
[Paris | c.1504]. | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 2,016.00 |
| 95 | JOHANNES GLOGOVIENSIS (c.1445--1507). | Introductorium compendiosum in tractatum spere. |
Krakow | 28 April 1506. | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 18,900.00 |
| 96 | JOHANNES GLOGOVIENSIS (c.1445-1507). | Introductorium compendiosum in tractatum spere. |
Krakow | 1513 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 12,600.00 |
| 97 | KEPLER, Johannes (1671-1630). | Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum, continens Mysterium cosmographicum de admirabili proportione orbium coelestium. |
Tubingen | 1596 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 277,200.00 |
| 98 | KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630). | Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur. |
Frankfurt | 1604 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 11,340.00 |
| 99 | KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630). | De stella nova in pede serpentarii. |
Prague | 1606 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 35,280.00 |
| 100 | KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630). | Astronomia nova [AITIOLOGETOS], seu physica coelestis, tradita commentariis de motibus stellae martis, ex observationibus G.V. |
[Heidelberg | 1609 | USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 | USD 327,600.00 |