Collaborate Disseminate
One of the world’s most significant historic documents will sell at public auction on the March 14. “Atomic Bombs,” written just weeks before the first such weapons dropped on Japan, records a researcher’s-eye view of the Manhattan Project.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: RR Auction, Christie’s, Nuclear weapons
Continue reading Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project report goes to auction
In 2007 a retired Canadian doctor paid €13,200 (USD $14,256) for a well-used second edition of Andreas Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica (1555), one of the most influential books in history. Only 150 copies are known. The book had been in the hands of collectors for more than four centuries and had extensive latin annotations by an unknown hand.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: De humani corporis fabrica, Andreas Vesalius, Christie’s, Auction
Continue reading Breaking: “bookfind of the century” sells for $2.23 million
Controversial 16th Century adventurer Samuel de Champlain penned two of history’s most captivating travel books, chronicling his exploration and mapping of much of the North American continent and his founding of New France.
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Tags: Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Samuel de Champlain
Continue reading Champlain’s adventures now world’s second-most expensive travel book
People have been collecting helmets for thousands of years, with the finest specimens either closely held or having long ago gone to museums … so when the world’s finest private collection sold at Christie’s this week, it rewrote the record books with seven of the top 20 prices of all-time.
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Tags: Museum, Christie’s, Helmet
Continue reading Armour museum’s helmet auction rewrites the record books
Rampant technological progress has teleported humanity from ignorance to understanding in an astonishingly short time. It is exactly 200 years ago that photography was emerging from the mind of French inventor Nicéphore Niépce onto bitumen-coated pewter plates, and for the first time, we could see a picture-perfect representation of what far-away things and events looked like. This story is about the best of the period before photography became mainstream, when human illustration was all we had.
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Tags: Christie’s
Continue reading Pictorial: The Bobins Collection of the world’s best eye-witness illustration
Sotheby’s sold the jacket worn to the Moon by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin yesterday, smashing all sorts of auction records with a final price of US$2,772,500.
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Tags: Most-Expensive, Auction, Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Heritage Auctions
Continue reading Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 jacket smashes auction records
This is the second part of a two-part overview of the 2021 auction year – a year where investors channeled more of their wealth into “investments of passion” than ever before.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Propstore, University Archives (Auction House), Bonhams, Heritage Auctions, Fonsie Mealey, Ketterer Kunst, Aristotle, mario bros., RR Auction, Marc van de Wiele Auctions, Albert Einstein, Doyle New York, Malling-Hansen “Writing Ball”, Gregor Mendel, Hakes Auctions, Boba Fett, star wars, Stormtrooper Helmet, Nintendo, Thomas Malthus, Superman, René Descartes, Matteo Ricci , Adam Smith, Steve Jobs, steve wosniak, Samuel de Champlain, Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, N64 Nintendo, Abraham Ortelius, Star Trek, Andy Warhol, Battle of Goliad, Resident Evil, Nobel prizes, John James Audubon, The Birds of America, Enigma Machine, Euclid, Lightsabers, Copernicus, Mark Catesby, Apple-1 Computer, Back to the Future, Triceratops, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, Ptolemy, Johannes Kepler, Apollo Guidance Computer, The North American Indian
Continue reading The highlights of the 2021 science, sci-fi and technology auction year
The 2021 auction year was quite extraordinary, with almost all auction categories reporting unprecedented levels of participation and sales.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Art, Most-Expensive, World’s Most Expensive, Video Games, Valuable-Scientific-Manuscripts, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Patek Philippe, NFT (Non-fungible token), Christie’s, Sotheby’s, RM-Sothebys, Gooding & Co, Bonhams, Artcurial, McLaren, Ferrari, Shelby, AC Cobra, Mercedes-Benz, Delage, Aston Martin, Baseball, basketball, NFL, Poly Auction Beijing, Poly Auction HK, Bugatti, Tim Berners-Lee, Audemars Piguet, Memory Lane Auctions, Heritage Auctions, Goldin Auctions, Lamborghini, Superman, Spider-Man, ComicConnect.com, Banksy, Lelands Auctions, Stutz, Rock Island Auctions, Stacks Bowers Auctions, Mile High Auctions, Macallan Whisky, Porsche, Rolex, Lexus, Space Suit, mario bros.
Continue reading Top 100 highlights of the 2021 auction year
The 2021 auction year was quite extraordinary, with almost all auction categories reporting unprecedented levels of participation and sales.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Art, Most-Expensive, World’s Most Expensive, Video Games, Valuable-Scientific-Manuscripts, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Patek Philippe, NFT (Non-fungible token), Christie’s, Sotheby’s, RM-Sothebys, Gooding & Co, Bonhams, Artcurial, McLaren, Ferrari, Shelby, AC Cobra, Mercedes-Benz, Delage, Aston Martin, Baseball, basketball, NFL, Poly Auction Beijing, Poly Auction HK, Bugatti, Tim Berners-Lee, Audemars Piguet, Memory Lane Auctions, Heritage Auctions, Goldin Auctions, Lamborghini, Superman, Spider-Man, ComicConnect.com, Banksy, Lelands Auctions, Stutz, Rock Island Auctions, Stacks Bowers Auctions, Mile High Auctions, Macallan Whisky, Porsche, Rolex, Lexus, Space Suit, mario bros.
Continue reading Top 100 highlights of the 2021 auction year
A 54-page document handwritten in 1913-1914 by Albert Einstein and Swiss engineer Michele Besso, sold in Paris earlier today for €11.6 million (US$13.0 million). It’s not the most valuable document ever written by Einstein by any measure, but it is the most paid in nearly eight decades for an autograph document by history’s most celebrated scientist.
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Tags: Albert Einstein, Christie’s, relativity
Continue reading Einstein-Besso “theory of relativity” manuscript fetches $13 million