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

Inscribed first London edition copy of the children's book by Lucy and Stephen Hawking, bearing his thumbprint and inscribed by his daughter.<ul><li>Stephen Hawking (English).</li><li>Lucy Hawking (English).</li><li>George's Secret Key to the Universe.</li><li>London: Doubleday, 2007.</li><li>Hawking’s thumbprint appears to a clear area on the half-title page alongside a black ink inscription by Lucy Hawking, "To Poppy, Good luck on all your cosmic journeys, Lucy Hawking."</li><li>Hardbound with original unclipped pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul>

George's Secret Key to the Universe

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First London edition</a>, first printing of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=stephen%20hawking&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hawking</a>'s memoir, My Brief History, bearing Hawking's thumb print in black ink.<ul><li>Stephen Hawking (English).</li><li>London: Bantam Press, 2013.</li><li>illustrated.</li><li>Hardbound.</li><li>Hawking’s thumb print appears to a clear area at the base of the title-page with a black ink annotation "12th September 2013 / Stephen Hawking / DAMTP (Department of Applied Mathematics &amp; Theoretical Physics), University of Cambridge, U.K.", with the witness stamp of Judith Croasdell. </li><li>Housed in a black leather open ended slipcase. </li><li>Included with this item are two original unpublished photographs of Hawking: one with his eldest son Robert and one with his second wife Elaine.</li></ul> Judith Croasdell worked with Stephen as his personal assistant from 2004 to 2014 and was Starmus III Consultant to Stephen from 2015-2016.

My Brief History. A Memoir

An original transcript from <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>'s Harvard University lecture series A Short History of the Universe, and a <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of A Brief History of Time.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3: 1 transcript, 1 letter, and one book.</li><li>Stephen W. Hawking (English).</li><li>A Brief History of Time: United Kingdom: Bantam, 1988.</li><li>Transcript is bound in cardboard wrappers with three ties, and printed on 1980s ream printer paper. </li></ul> The transcript is unrecorded and only Cambridge University have a similar copy according to their records. The transcript was sent to Russia (potentially to a fellow research fellow), but was stopped at customs. This is explained to a colleague in the included letter from Francis J M Turner of Hawking’s Cambridge College, Magdalene. The letter is dated 23rd April 1988. The transcript opens with the paragraph from Hawking, ‘I’m going to give this course of lectures with the help of a computer, and a speech synthesizer. You must forgive it the american accent: I have not been able to teach it proper English’. The layout of the transcript differs from the chapters within the published first edition of A Brief History of Time which accompanies the transcript. The lectures cover similar topics as the first edition, specifically ‘Black Holes Ain’t So Black’, ‘The Expanding Universe’ and ‘The Origin and Fate of the Universe’. Interestingly, Chapter 10 and 11 of A Brief History of Time are covered in the lectures under the heading of ‘The Theory of Everything’. The latter title being what many considered as Hawking’s ‘watered-down’ version of A Brief History of Time. What is evident from the transcript is the range of ideas found in A Brief History of Time, as well as The Theory of Everything and The Universe in a Nutshell. Coupled with this, the transcript certainly is the first time these ideas appeared in print and its academic importance in the generation of Hawking’s ideas about black holes, matter and the expansion of the Universe. A truly unique item and something rarely available outside an academic collection, aside a true first edition, first printing of Hawking’s masterpiece.

A Short History of the Universe Transcript and A Brief History of Time First Edition

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