-
198Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)Difesa... contro alle calunnie & imposture di Baldessar Capra Milanese, usategli si nella Considerazione astronomica sopra la nuova stella del M DC IIII come (& assai piu) nel publicare nuovamente come sua invenzione la fabrica, & gli usi del Compasso geometrico, & militare, sotto il titolo di Usus & fabrica circini cuiusdam proportionis, &c. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1607LOT SOLD.466,000GBP -
197Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare. Padua: in the house of the author, by Pietro Marinelli, 1606LOT SOLD.162,500GBP -
62Bianchini, Giovanni (d.c.1470)Tabulae astronomiae et canones, manuscript, in Latin [Italy (Venice?), c.1460s (1474 or earlier)]LOT SOLD.93,750GBP -
442Mubashshir ibn Ahmad al-Razi (1135/1136-1193)Kitab fihi (?) Sharh ma amla’ahu al-Wazir ‘Awn al-Din Abu’l Muzaffar Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Hubayra fi ‘ilm sina’at al-h(isab) [A commentary on arithmetic by Ibn Hubayra, copied by Abd al-Aziz ibn Dulaf ibn Abi Talib]. Baghdad or Damascus, Abbasid, dated 576 AH/1180 ADLOT SOLD.87,500GBP -
448Napier, John (1550-1617)Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio, eiusque usus, in utraque trigonometria, ut etiam in omni logistica mathematica, amplissimi, facillimi & expeditissimi explicatio. Edinburgh: Andrew Hart, 1614LOT SOLD.75,000GBP -
855[Lovelace, Augusta Ada, translator]--Menabrea, Luigi Federico (1809-1896)Sketch of the analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq… with notes by the translator... London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843LOT SOLD.75,000GBP -
311Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)Nova stereometria doliorum vinariorum. Linz: Johann Planck, for the author, 1615LOT SOLD.68,750GBP -
534Pratt, William (active 1616-1624)The arithmeticall jewell: or the use of a small table; whereby is speedily wrought, as well all arithmeticall works in whole numbers, as all fractionall operations, without fraction or reduction. London: Io. Beale, 1617LOT SOLD.60,000GBP -
149Decker, Ezechiel de (c. 1603-c. 1647)Tweede deel van de nieuwe tel-konst ofte wonderliicke konstighe tafel, inhoudende de logarithmi, voor de getallen van 1 af tot 100000 toe [etc.]. Gouda: Pieter Rammazeyn, 1627, [4], 36pp., without tables (see footnote), occasional croppingLOT SOLD.52,500GBP -
101Capra, Baldassare (1580-1626)Usus et fabrica circini cuiusdam proportionis, per quem omnia fere tum Euclidis, tum Mathematicorum omnium problemata facili negotio resoluuntur. Padua: Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1607LOT SOLD.50,000GBP
Sessions
- Session 1: 18 Sep 2018 | 10:00 AM | Lots 1 - 252
- Session 2: 18 Sep 2018 | 02:30 PM | Lots 253 - 493
- Session 3: 19 Sep 2018 | 10:00 AM | Lots 494 - 705
- Session 4: 19 Sep 2018 | 02:30 PM | Lots 706 - 944
Overview
View Conditions of Sale - Part 1
View Conditions of Sale - Part 2
In its scope and subject matter, Erwin Tomash’s collection is unlike any other to have been offered at auction. The library represents a lifetime’s fascination with the development across the ages of the modern-day computer, including calculation, astronomy, navigation, mensuration and related subjects. It ranges from medieval and renaissance works on arithmetic, finger-reckoning and the abacus, to the birth in the twentieth century of theoretical and practical computer science under Alan Turing. On the way, it encompasses major breakthroughs in the measurement of space and time by Apianus, Galileo, Kepler and others, the development of complex logarithmic, volumetric and trigonometrical calculations, and early and later scientific instruments such as sectors, slide-rules, astrolabes and quadrants, including Napier’s bones and Babbage’s famous difference engine.
The auction, taking place over two days, will be the inaugural sale in our new purpose-built gallery in the Aeolian Hall, Bloomfield Place.
Contact Information
