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Auction Name Online Sale: The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing: the residual part Total Sales (GBP) 234,118.75
Auction Date March 12, 2020 - March 12, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 132,240.00
Sale Number #2143 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 187,110.00
Total Lots 292
Sold Lots 242 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 161,270.00
% of Lots Sold 82.88% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 228,280.00
Unsold Lots 50 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 102.56%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
70 Calandri (Filippo)

[Aritmetica]

 2020-01-01 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
63 Borgo (Pietro)

Aritmetica mercantile

 1484 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 23,750.00
155 Kepler (Johannes)

Chilias Logarithmorum ad totidem numeros rotundos, 1624; Supplementum Chilidis Logarithmorum, 1625

 1624-25. GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
156 Kepler (Johannes)

Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus Astronomicae Scientiae, Temporum longinquitate collapsae Restauratio continetur

 1627 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
286 Kepler (Johannes)

Auszug Auss Der Vralten Messekunst Archimedis

 1616 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,750.00
11 Apianus (Petrus)

Instrumentum primi mobilis

 1534 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
150 Biehler (Tobias)

Practische anleitung für jeder zeichnung zur Jaquard-maschine, autograph manuscript, lithographed presentation title to Otto, King of Greece

 1839 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,875.00
175 Marinoni (Giovanni Jacopo de)

De Astronomica Specula Domestica et Organico Apparatu Astronomico libri duo

 1745 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,000.00
143 Pennington (Robert)

The Description of a Sector... Of great use to all clock and watch makers

 1780 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 3,750.00
171 Longomontanus (Christian Sørensen)

Astronomia Danica... cum appendice de asscititiis coeli phaenomenis, nempe stellis novis et cometis

 1622 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,250.00
36 Babbage (Charles)

Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples,

1847 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,750.00
190 Mercator (Nicolaus)

Ogarithmo-technia: sive methodus construendi logarithmos nova, accurata, & facilis; scripto antehac communicata, anno sc.,

1667 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,750.00
204 Napier (John)

Raddologia, Overo Arimmetica Virgolare

 1623 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,750.00
243 Radi (Arcangelo Maria)

Nuova Scienza Di Horologi a Polvere Che Mostrano e Suonano Distintamente Tutte l'Hore

 1665 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,750.00
16 Stoeffler (Johannes)

Elucidatio Fabricae ususque Astrolabii... Atque totius spherice doctissimo nuper ingeniose concinnata atque in lucem edita

 1513 [colophon dated 1512]. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,500.00
208 Newhouse (Daniel)

The Art of Sailing by the Logarithms, or artificial sines and tangents.

1701 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,500.00
265 Clavius (Christoph)

Gnomonices libri octo

 1581 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,500.00
108 Gemma Frisius.

De Astrolabo Catholico

 1556 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,250.00
27 Babbage (Charles)

Table Of Logarithms Of The Natural Numbers, From 1 To 108000

 1829 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,125.00
161 Lansberghe (Philip van)

Tabulæ motuum cœlestium perpetuæ; ex omnium temporum observationibus constructæ temporumque omnium observationibus consentientes.

 1632 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,125.00
176 Marinoni (Giovanni Jacopo de)

De re ichnographica

 1751 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,000.00
107 Galilei (Galileo)

Opere, 3 vol.

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,875.00
144 Hulsius (Levinus)

Ocularis et radicalis demonstratio usus quadrantis

 1596 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,875.00
149 Jacob (Simon)

Ein new und wohl gegrundt rechenbuch, auff den linien un[d] ziffern, sampt der welschen practic und allerley vortheilen, neben der extraction radicum, un[d] von den proportionen, mit vilen lustigen fragen und auffgaben [&c.]

 1565 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,875.00
152 <b>NO RESERVE</b> Jevons (William Stanley)

On a General System of Numerically Definite Reasoning, offprint from Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, series 3, vol. 4

 1870 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,875.00
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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