Tag: Charles Darwin

• AuctionDaily

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  Top-shelf selections await at Quinn’s Rare Books auction, October 26

  Featured: Darwin’s 1877 psychological treatise on childhood development, missionary’s 1724 account of Iroquois life, Reagan ‘An American Life’ boxed set FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Early printings, historical publications, a Poe thriller and other collectible page-turners will cross the auction block at Quinn’s Rare Book, Autograph and Print Auction on Thursday,…

  Oct 19, 23

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  Turner Auctions + Appraisals Presents Books & Ephemera, Including Historical Documents From The Chapman Family Of Connecticut

  Over 220 Lots From 17th-20th Centuries To Be Sold on Saturday, August 20 SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 5, 2022 – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present Books & Ephemera, including Historical Documents from the Chapman Family of Connecticut, on August 20, 2022, at 10:30 am PDT. Featuring…

  Aug 8, 22

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  Van Dyck, Lippi, Savery and Waldmüller sell for strong prices in Koller's Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings auction

  Jan Brueghel The Younger, Bouquet of flowers in a porcelain vase.Oil on copper. 28.4 × 23.2 cm.Sold for CHF 122 000. ZURICH.-Koller's Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings auction in Zurich on 26 March registered robust prices, with highly competitive bidding for many of the top lots, despite the fact that…

  Apr 5, 21

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  University Archives' online auction, January 6th, will be led by rare items signed by Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein

  The full catalog showing all 440 lots (most in company history) is up for bidding and viewing now at University Archives’ website: www.UniversityArchives.com. Four-page manuscript by the physicist Sir Isaac Newton consisting of nearly 2,300 words penned entirely in his hand around 1710, connecting metaphysics to physics (est. $130,000-$160,000). WESTPORT,…

  Dec 22, 20

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  Potter & Potter Auctions' October, 2020 Fine Books And Manuscripts Sale a Cover to Cover Success at Nearly $500,000.

  This sale tempted collectors with remarkable publications, livres d’artiste, archives, and works by 20th century artists including Picasso, Dali, and Hockney. The Works of Janathan Swift Chicago, Il, October 14, 2020 - Potter & Potter Auctions' signature fall event was a best seller in every respect. When the hammer fell…

  Oct 15, 20

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  Mystery Pier Books to auction rarities with GWS Auctions

  Robert Louis Stevenson; Strange Adventures of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) First Edition Printing From The Collection of Richard Garnett W/Custom Clamshell Case. Photo: Kruse GWS Auctions. LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kruse GWS Auctions announced the upcoming Literary Masterpieces & Treasured Archives Auction featuring the collection of rare first edition books…

  Oct 2, 20

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  First edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species sells at auction for £38,400

  The book is a work of scientific literature and is widely considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. NOTTINGHAM.- A First Edition of Charles Darwin’s famed On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection has sold at auction for a staggering £38,400. The 1859 ground-breaking work by Charles…

  Sep 27, 20

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  Items signed by Mao Zedong, Edgar Allan Poe, Einstein, Darwin, etc., are in University Archives' online auction Sept. 30

  The sale contains rare and highly collectible items from multiple specialty categories -- 356 lots in all. It will begin promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time. Presentation copy of a Russian book celebrating the 10th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in October 1959, 588 pages, signed by Chairman…

  Sep 15, 20

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  Christie's Classic Week Online totals $13.4 million

  Jacob de Backer (Antwerp c. 1555-c. 1585), The Liberation of Saint Peter, oil on canvas. Estimate: $80,000-120,000. Price realized: $399,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020. NEW YORK, NY.- A Roman marble bust of a goddess circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. achieved the top price of the Ancient Art from James and Marilynn…

  Jun 23, 20

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  Ketterer Kunst announces auction of rarebooks, manuscripts, autographs

  Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, London, J. Johnson 1798. Estimate: € 60,000. HAMBURG.- At the moment the exponential curve is on the tip of everyone‘s tongue. However, Thomas Robert Malthus explained this important principle in his acclaimed essay on the growth of population as early as…

  May 10, 20

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  Bob Dylan, Sir Isaac Newton and George Washington will all appear in University Archives' May 6th Internet-Only Auction

  The auction is packed with rare books, manuscripts, relics and more, many of them signed by history’s brightest luminaries. Start time is 10:30 am Eastern. WESTPORT, CT, UNITED STATES, April 21, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Bob Dylan’s handwritten and signed lyrics to the classic rock song Like a Rolling Stone, a superb document…

  Apr 21, 20

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