Lot 153 · Valuable Books and Manuscripts
Dioptricae pars prima ... De explicatione principorum [ Pars secunda ... De constructione telescopiorum dioptricorum. Pars tertia ... De constructione microscopiorum ]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1769-1771.
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- Estimate
- £12,000–£18,000 hammer ≈ $14,318–$21,477
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Valuable Books and Manuscripts, London · 13 July 2022
- Dimensions
- 280 x 221mm
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3442805
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Euler, Leonhard. 1707-1783., Dioptricae pars prima ... De explicatione principorum [ Pars secunda ... De constructione telescopiorum dioptricorum. Pars tertia ... De constructione microscopiorum ]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1769-1771. Christie's, 13 Jul 2022, lot 153. bought in (did not sell). TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3442805.
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Euler, Leonhard. 1707-1783., Dioptricae pars prima ... De explicatione principorum [ Pars secunda ... De constructione telescopiorum dioptricorum. Pars tertia ... De constructione microscopiorum ]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1769-1771. Christie's, 13 Jul 2022, lot 153. bought in (did not sell). TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3442805.
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From the same sale Valuable Books and Manuscripts · Jul 2022
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Christopher, miniature from a Book of Hours, in Latin and French, … | Pseudo-Jacquemart de Hesdin (active 1380s-1411) | £12,000–£18,000 | |
| The Crucifixion, miniature on a leaf from an illuminated Missal on ve… | Circle of Jacopo di Paolo (c.1345-1430) | £7,000–£10,000 | |
| An unpublished series of letters to his sister Zina, 1908-1919. | MOLOTOV, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (né Skryabin; 1890-1988) | £7,000–£10,000 | |
| The Power of Movement in Plants . London: John Murray, 1880. | DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882), assisted by Francis DARWIN (1848-1925) | £1,500–£2,000 | |
| The Oldest Surviving Italian Globes | AFTER MERCATOR, Gerardus (1512-1594) and Caspar VOPEL (1511-1561) | £300,000–£500,000 | |
| [ Liber conformitatum :] Opus auree . Edited by Joannes Maria Mapellu… | BARTHOLOMAEUS PISANUS (d. 1401) | £3,000–£4,000 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euler, Leonhard. 1707-1783. | Opuscula Analytica . St. Petersburg: Academia Imperialis Sci | $16,266 | Christie's, Jul 2023 | |
| Euler, Leonhard. 1707-1783. | Lettres a une princesse d ’ Allemagne sur divers sujets de p | Christie's, Jul 2022 | ||
| Joan Miró | Le Grand Ordinateur (Dupin 503) | Sotheby's, Dec 2021 | ||
| Euler, Leonhard. 1707-1783. | mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita. petropoli | Sotheby's, Oct 2017 | ||
| Einstein, Albert. 1879-1955. | ‘Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen’. Offprint from | Christie's, Dec 2024 | ||
| Euler, Leonhard. 1707-1783. | Institutionum calculi integralis. Saint-Pétersbourg, 1768-17 | Sotheby's, Jun 2026 | ||
| Joan Miró | La taupe hilare, 1975 | Ansorena, Dec 2022 | ||
| Euler, Leonhard. 1707-1783. | Dioptricae pars prima ... De explicatione principorum [ Pars | Christie's, Dec 2021 |
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