Starmus 50 Years Of Man In Space, bearing the thumbprint of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Stephen%20Hawking&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen Hawking</a>.<ul><li>Edited by Garik Israelian (Armenian-Spanish) and Brian May (English).</li><li>Forward by Stephen Hawking (English).</li><li>United Kingdom: Canopus Publishing Ltd., (Starmus), 2014.</li><li>Signed with the thumbprint of Stephen Hawking.</li><li>Hardbound.</li><li>Photographic illustrations.</li><li>With authentication inscription to front endpaper "This is the right thumb print of Professor Stephen Hawking witness by George Zhao", together with a letter of authenticity signed by Stephen Grocutt, and 5 other photographic ephemera relating to Hawking, together all items preserved in smart wooden box.</li></ul> Stephen Hawking led the Starmus festival in 2014. A unique science outreach event dedicated to the latest thinking of some of the world's greatest minds on the nature of the Universe, Hawking was keynote speaker, delivering two lectures on the origin of the universe and the origin of black holes. Stephen Grocutt was a member of Stephen Hawking's private healthcare team from 2015-2017, traveling with him around the world. Also included alongside the letter of authenticity signed by Stephen Grocutt is a photograph of Mr Grocutt together with Professor Hawking in London on the evening of his BBC Radio 4 Reith Lecture on blackholes. Qihui Zhao who signs as George Zhao worked as Professor Hawking's medical assistant for many years.

Starmus 50 Years Of Man In Space

Bibliotheca Brookeriana VIII

MANDOSIO, QUINTILIANO. In regulas Cancellariæ Apostolicae sanctissimi d. nostri Iulii tertii pontificis maximi commentaria. Cum duplici indice, quorum alter propriam cuiusque regulæ materiam breviter ostendit: alter verò omnia in commentariis memoratu digna ordine complectitur. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1554

MANDOSIO, QUINTILIANO. In regulas Cancellariæ Apostolicae sanctissimi d. nostri Iulii tertii pontificis maximi commentaria. Cum duplici indice, quorum alter propriam cuiusque regulæ materiam breviter ostendit: alter verò omnia in commentariis memoratu digna ordine complectitur. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1554 This papal binding made for Julius III can be attributed to Marcantonio Guillery (see lot 112 in the present sale for a volume from the private library of Julius III). 4to (220 x 154mm). Roman type, 40 lines plus headline. Collation: *4 **4 A–Z4 AA–ZZ4 AAA–FFF4 a–c4 d6: 234 leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on title. (Some light spotting and browning.) Binding: Contemporary Roman brown morocco armorial binding, gilt fillet around sides, large open frame formed by 2 sets of double gilt fillets, mitred at corners, gilt "monticelli" at outer corners, gilt wreath at inside corners, in centre gilt arms of Julius III on upper cover and IVLIO/III/PONT./ MAX. on lower, spine with 3 bands, title in gold running down spine, traces of 4 pairs of ties, edges gilt. (Spine ends, upper joint, and corners worn.) Provenance: Pope Julius III (Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, 1487-1555; r. 1550-1555), arms on binding, lower cover lettered with his name — inkstamp (tree standing on 3 monticelli, possibly Del Monte family) — armorial inkstamp “Antonius Portius I.V.D.” on title, possibly Antonio Porcio, of Forli — Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), bookplate, note in pencil "Naples 1891" (Brian Hillyard, "Rosebery as book collector" in Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 7 (2012), pp.71-114, especially p.85 on his library in the Villa Rosebery in Posillipo, bought in 1897 and given to the British Government in 1909; p.108 note 49 for a volume inscribed "Naples Feb. 1891" — Rosebery, family library (Dalmeny), inkstamp "Barnbougle Castle" — sale, Sotheby's, The Continental library of Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian, 25 May 1995, lot 26. Acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. References: USTC 839984; Edit16 35245

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