What: History of Science and TechnologyWhere: Bonhams, 580 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022, USAWhen: 6 December, 11.00am ESTPublic Viewing: December 2, 12:00pm - 05:00pm, December 3, 12:00pm - 05:00pm, December 4, 10:00am - 05:00pm, December 5, 10:00am - 05:00pmTop lots of the sale:- Apple 1 Computer – Apple 1 Motherboard, with label "Apple Computer 1 / Palo Alto. Ca. Copyright 1976." Estimate: US$ 400,000 - US$ 600,000- Sir Isaac Newton. 1642-1727, Knighted 1705. 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. Estimate: US$ 300,000 - US$ 500,000- Frits Zernike 1888-1966. The 1953 Nobel Prize Medal For Physics. Presented to Frits Zernike for the Invention of the Phase-Contrast Microscope. Nobel medal, in gold, 65.9 mm diameter, 204.1 grams. Designed by Erik Lundberg and struck by the Kungliga Mynt och Justeringsverkey (Swedish Royal Mint). Marked on edge "MOV GULD 1953." Obverse with bust of Alfred Nobel facing left, "ALFR. / NOBEL to left of bust, "NAT. / MDCCC / XXXIII / OB. / MDCCC / XCVI" to right of bust, signed "LINDBERG" at the lower left edge. Estimate: US$ 100,000 - US$ 150,000- Steve Jobs, 1955-2011. Original patent award plaque presented to Steve Jobs by Apple on the occasion of his design for the design of the Macintosh case. Estimate: US$ 40,000 - US$ 60,000- Steve Wozniak, B.1950; and Steve Jobs. 1955-2011. Blue Box c.1972. An original "blue box" designed by Steve Wozniak in 1972, and marketed by Steve Jobs and Wozniak. Black plastic box measuring 4 x 2 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches, with thin plastic membrane keys mounted in cover plate, housing printed circuit board, loose wiring and 9-volt battery. Estimate: US$ 30,000 - US$ 50,000- Steve Jobs. 1955-2011. Document Signed ("Steven jobs [sic]"), partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, 1 p, 4to, n.p., [1973], being an employment application for an unspecified position. Estimate: US$ 20,000 - US$ 30,000- Mathison Alan Turing. 1912-1954. Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals. London: C.F. Hodgson & Son, 1939. Offprint from: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Second Series, Vol 45. 8vo (258 x 178 mm). Pp 161-228.Estimate: US$ 20,000 - US$ 30,000- Isaac Newton. 1643-1727. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. London: Benjamin Motte, 1729. 2 volumes. 8vo (194 x 111 mm). [38], 320; [2], 393, [13], viii, 71, [1 errata] pp. "The Laws of the Moon's Motion" section by John Machin bound at the end of volume 2. Estimate: US$ 15,000 - US$ 20,000- Isaac Newton. 1642-1727. Autograph Manuscript in English, a portion of a draft of Newton's study on revelation, ink on paper, 1 p, 190 x 86 mm, containing 15 lines, with autograph emendations. Estimate: US$ 15,000 - US$ 20,000- Isaac Newton. 1642-1727. Autograph Document, being a deed of sale for Margaret Fountaine on a property at Woolstrope [Woolsthorpe], his ancestral home, ink on paper, 1 p, 210 x 197 mm, Woolstrope, "Septemb'r 29th, 1679," signed for the Fountaines by Newton where they have added their marks, with a manuscript note in a 19th-century hand attesting to Newton's autograph, folds, crease to one corner. Estimate: US$ 10,000 - US$ 15,000- Henry L. Bryant early American orrery and armillary sphere. Hartford, CT: 1872. "Celestial Indicator," 11 1/2 inch diameter, comprising a series of brass armillary bands forming a spherical frame, surrounding an orrery comprising the various known planets represented by wooden spheres on wire armatures, a painted wood earth with revolving moon, a rectangular plate representing the asteroid belt, and at the center a brass sphere representing the sun. Estimate: US$ 8,000 - US$ 12,000- Charles Darwin. 1809-1882. O proiskhozhdenii vidov. [On the Origin of the Species.] St. Petersburg: A. I. Glazunov, 1864, [1863]. 8vo. [404] pp. Half morocco over marbled boards. Light wear to edges, top water stain; internal soiling, foxing, some underscoring in ink. First Russian Translation of the Theory of Evolution. Estimate: US$ 7,000 - US$ 10,000- Albert Einstein. 1879-1955. Original etching, a portrait of Albert Einstein by Hermann Struck, plate measuring 228 x 156 mm on a larger sheet (241 x 178 mm), signed and numbered by the artist lower left margin, and signed and dated by Einstein ("Albert Einstein 1931") lower right margin, blank margin of sheet neatly trimmed, thin mat burn outside perimeter of the plate, not affecting image. Estimate: US$ 7,000 - US$ 10,000- Louis Pasteur. 1822-1895. Autograph Letter Signed ("L. Pasteur"), 2 pp, 4to (conjoining leaves), Paris, 4 October 1881, to Baron de Kemeny, the Hungarian ambassador in Paris, who had asked Pasteur to give his country the anthrax vaccine. Estimate: US$ 7,000 - US$ 10,000- Petrovich Ivan Pavlov. 1849-1936. Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pischevaritelnykh zhelez. [Lectures on the Work of the Main Digestive Glands.] St. Petersburg: MPS (I. N. Kushnerev i ko), 1897. 8vo. [225] pp. Rebound in three-quarter calf over beveled marbled boards. First Edition of the Seminal Work on Biology and Neurology, containing the first expression of what Pavlov would later term the "conditioned reflex." Estimate: US$ 7,000 - US$ 10,000For details, visit: http://www.bonhams.com/Click on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.
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