Auction Preview: Important Scientific Books from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune at Christie’s, London, July 9
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What: Important Scientific Books from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe BrauneWhere: Christie’s, 8 King Street, St. James’s, LondonWhen: July 9, 2:00 PMPublic Viewing: July 6, 12pm - 5pm, July 7, 12pm - 5pm, July 8, 9am - 4:30pm, July 8, 6pm - 8:30pmAuction Preview: Important Scientific Books from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune at Christie’s, London, July 9
What: Important Scientific Books from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe BrauneWhere: Christie’s, 8 King Street, St. James’s, LondonWhen: July 9, 2:00 PMPublic Viewing: July 6, 12pm - 5pm, July 7, 12pm - 5pm, July 8, 9am - 4:30pm, July 8, 6pm - 8:30pm Top Lots at the Sale:— Sidereus Nuncius. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, [March] 1610, Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642). First edition, announcing the first astronomical discoveries made with the telescope. Featured in lot 266. Estimate: GBP 300,000 — GBP 500,000 (USD 379,800 —USD 633,000) — “Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.” Edited by Edmond Halley (1656-1743). London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society [at the expense of Edmond Halley], to be sold by various booksellers, 1687. Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727). First edition of “the greatest works in the history of science” (PMM); “perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make” (Einstein). Featured in lot 310. Estimate: GBP 250,000 —GBP 350,000 (USD 316,500 — USD 443,100) — “Versuche uber Pflanzen-Hybriden.” Offprint from: Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brunn. Vol. IV (1865). pp. [3]-47. Brno: Georg Gastl for the Naturforschenden Verein, 1866. Mendel, Johann Gregor (1822-1884). Extremely rare offprint issue of the foundation of the science of genetics, corrected in manuscript by Mendel’s amanuensis. “One of the most important papers in the history of biology, and the foundation of modern genetics” (DSB). Featured in lot 307. Estimate: GBP 200,000 —GBP 300,000 (USD 253,200 —USD 379,800) — “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.” London: John Murray, 1859. Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). First edition of “the most important single work in science” (Dibner), owned and read by two contemporaries of Darwin. Featured in lot 246. Estimate: GBP 140,000 — GBP 200,000 (USD 177,240 —USD 253,200) — “Harmonices mundi libri V. Linz: Johann Planck for Gottfried Tampach,” 1619. [Bound after:] – Pro suo opere Harmonices Mundi Apologia. Frankfurt: Erasmus Kempfer for Godefrid Tampach, 1621-1622. Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630). First edition of Kepler’s great cosmological treatise, containing the third law of planetary motion. Featured in lot 290. Estimate: GBP 70,000 — GBP 100,000 (USD 88,620 — USD 126,600) — “Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali.” Leiden: Elzevier Press, 1638. Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642). First edition of “the first modern textbook of physics, a foundation stone in the science of mechanics” (Grolier/Horblit). Featured in lot 268. Estimate: GBP 50,000 — GBP 80,000 (USD 63,300 — USD 101,280) — “Dialogo ... sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano.” Florence: Giovanni Battista Landini, 1632. Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642). First edition, from the library of Pierre Des Noyers, of Galilei’s celebrated defence of Copernican heliocentrism and the direct cause of his trial and imprisonment. Featured in lot 267. Estimate: GBP 45,000 — GBP 60,000 (USD 56,970 — USD 75,960)For details, visit: https://www.christies.comClick on the slideshow for the highlights of the salehttps://www.blouinartinfo.comFounder: Louise Blouin Read more