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History Of Science And Technology
12 December 2017 • New York
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Sale Number: N09686
71 lots
49. Typed letter signed and note signed to Herbert Kondo, Princeton, New Jersey, 11 August, 1952.
Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
50. A group of four photographs of Einstein circa 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey, by Sanford Roth
Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
51. "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character. As Told to Ralph Leighton. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1985.
Estimate: 12,000 – 18,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
52. Lettre à M. Dacier... Relative a l'Alphabet des Hiéroglyphes Phonétiques Employés par les Épyptiens pour Inscrire sur leurs Monuments les Titres, les Noms et les Surnoms des Souverains Grecs et Romains. Paris: Chez Firmin Didot, Père et Fils, 1822.
Estimate: 20,000 – 25,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
53. THE FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER
Estimate: 18,000 – 25,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
54. Autograph letter signed to Major Alfred Mordecai, 1 Dorset, Manch[ester] Sq[uare], 1 May 1840.
Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
55. AUTOGRAPH MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOKS, unsigned and undated, but ca 1900.
Estimate: 80,000 – 120,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
56. "Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls."Offprint from: Aus den Monatsheften für Mathematik und Physik, Vol 37, part 1. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1930.AND: "Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I." Offprint from: Aus den Monatsheften für Mathematik und Physik, Vol 38, part 1. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1931.
Estimate: 80,000 – 120,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
57. "Photometric Diagram of Carbon Loop." Schematic drawing and blueprint for carbon filament test, Menlo Park, New Jersey, March 1880
Estimate: 10,000 – 20,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
58. Stevens Autophone System, S. H. Couch Company, Boston, circa 1910
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
59. Three patents, one with an autograph note, 25 February–18 March 1919
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
60. Typewritten Q&A with holograph answers [16 January 1929]
Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
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