Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

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Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction

Scientists and Engineers

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 443		Adler, Alfred (1870-1937) Austrian-born psychologist, founder of Individual Psychology; considered one of the greatest influences, with Freud and Jung, on the field of modern psychology. Autograph Letter Signed "Adler," on Hotel Gramercy Park letterhead, one page, 10½ x 7¼ in., New York, Mar. 23, 1993. To George S. Denithorne, Bellefonte, Pa., recommending two of his books: "…The books I want to advise are: 'What life does mean to you' (Little Brown, Boston) and, 'Practice and theory of Individual Psychology' (Harcourt, Brace, NY). Both my books." Accompanied by the mailing envelope, postmarked the same day. Very fine. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $823
Lot 444		[Bell, Alexander Graham] Alice C. Jennings. Autograph Letter Signed "Alice," 4 pp, 8 x 5 in. Riverbank, Oct. 16, 1934, The poet to whom Bell wrote in the previous lot writes to Nellie, "…I long ago ceased to feel any prejudice against Jews," discusses poetry and reminisces at length about Alexander Graham Bell, "…It was Dr. Bell who…accompanied me home to pour into my willing ears---or rather eyes--his plans and hopes and dreams about his great invention. He was then a poor and struggling young inventor of 24….I cannot see a telephone without recalling those talks." She also quotes Bell's reference to her as having genius. Fine. Estimated Value $150 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 445		Carver, George Washington (1864-1943) Educator, scientist, and agricultural innovator. Autograph Letter Signed "G.W. Carver" on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, one page, 11 x 8½ in., Sept. 7, 1932. To Grady Porter of the Tom Huston Peanut Company. With original mailing envelope, addressed in Carver's hand. "Thank you so much for the interesting bunch of Spanish peanuts with the Diplodice. It is interesting to note that the disease attacks the central stem first, and seems to involve the top first. I wish you would examine the roots of a number of affected plants by splitting the top root and see if any of them are black inside. …." Fine. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 446		Carver, George Washington. Autograph Letter Signed "G.W. Carver," on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial letterhead, 3pp, 11 x 8½ in., Oct. 17, 1931. To "My Great Spiritual boy Mr. Hardwick". In part: "Your glorious letter…wonderful the message full of the real spirit….My precious boys seem to be developing into just what we want…beginning to see more clearly what God meant when He chose you as Trail Blazer…our little family of great spirits must grow until the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man is felt throughout the world….I can do my work better since you were here. God seems to bless everything I attempt to do…." Jim Hardwick was a young white man, the son of slave owners, who heard one of the speeches Carver gave to Atlanta groups on interracial cooperation and became one of the young men Carver mentored. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 447		Carver, George Washington. Autograph Letter Signed "G.W. Carver" on "Tuskegee Normal And Industrial Institute" letterhead, one page, recto/verso, 11 x 8½ in., Tuskegee, Alabama, August 10, 1932. To "Mr. Davis." Filing holes at top and the ink is a little light, otherwise fine. A wonderfully personal letter, illustrating the warmth and dedication Carver felt towards the students he taught for so many years: "… I am thinking about you and am so happy over your progress. Yesterday… I went into a little copse of woods…and collected some wonderfully strange and beautiful things…When I returned I found sitting on the steps awaiting me a dear boy who I met at the Univ. of Miss. when I spoke there…He is especially interested in Geology and Biology. He too has a creative mind, not so fine and clear cut as yours, but very good indeed…". Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 448		Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829) British chemist and inventor. Third person Autograph Letter Signed at the top of page one and "Davy" is written twice in the body of the letter, 2 pp plus integral leaf, 7¼ x 4½ in., n.p., n.d. "Sir H Davy returns his best thanks to Mad.lle Duvancel for the memoirs she had the goodness to bring him from M. le Baron Cuvier & the letter from M. Ampere. Sir Humphry has been absent from London and returned only yesterday. Lady Davy will call on Mad.lle Duvancel this morning and Sir Humphry hopes they may have the satisfaction of seeing her at dinner tomorrow." Georges Cuvier wrote a highly laudatory Biographical Memoir of Sir Humphry Davy. French naturalist A. Duvancel collaborated with Cuvier in studies of the flora, fauna and languages of the Indian sub-continent. Ampere was also a great admirer of Davy. Fine scientific associations. Estimated Value $800 - 900. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 449		Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) Physicist who enunciated the theory of relativity; 1921 Nobel prize winner. First edition of Einstein's book The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas From Early Concepts of Relativity and Quanta, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1938. Signed in full on the first end page with "1938" in Einstein's hand. Blue cloth covers show wear; spine is sunned and interior is lightly toned and obviously used., with marginal stains on pp 84 and 85 and occasional pencil underlining. Signed by Einstein the same year it was published. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,880
Lot 450		Faraday, Michael (1891-1867) English chemist and physicist, known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis; he invented the electric motor. Autograph Letter Signed "M. Faraday," 1½ pp, 10 x 7¾ in., Royal Institution, Dec. 28, 1846. With integral address leaf and intact black wax seal with initials "MF". To French chemist Pierre Hippolyte Boutigy (1798-1884). He thanks Boutigny heartily for a book and adds, "I always think of you and your experiments with great interest. Last June…I gave our members an experimental illustration of your beautiful subject and shewed them some of the results which you shewed me. I added one which I do not see in your book though it comes near that made by M. Dumas [French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas] and described p. 102; by virtue of your spheroidal state I was enabled to freeze mercury in the red hot crucible with the utmost facility. First the crucible was made (spheroidal) red hot - then some ether introduced, then solid carbonic acid - and lastly a metallic capsule holding about an ounce of mercury was dipped into the spheroidal mixture until the mercury was frozen which happened in two or three seconds. It seemed very strange to dip the liquid mercury into the red hot crucible and bring it out frozen. I am not in good condition being under the Surgeon's hands for an affection of the knee…." Fine. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 451		Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. Autograph Letter Signed "Freud" on stationery engraved "Prof. Dr. Freud" at upper left, and "Wien, IX., Berggasse 19" at upper right, one page, in German, 9 x 5 5/8 in., Vienna, March 29, 1931. Freud responds to a letter from a young man who was thinking of becoming a doctor, and expresses interest in a trip to Greece which the young man is making with his bride. Freud has a letter from Dr. Déridère, who is the head inspector of hygiene for the prison sanitary service, in the ministry of hygiene and wants to know if the young man will meet with Dr. Déridère. He ends the letter, "With best wishes, your devoted Freud." Normal folds and minor soiling, else fine condition. Boldly penned and signed in black ink. Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000. Consigned by the son of the man to whom Freud wrote. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $4,080
Lot 452		[Fyfe, Andrew]. A Compendium of the Anatomy of the Human Body, Philadelphia, Benjamin C. Buzby, 1810. Two volumes. approximately 6 x 4 in. each. Third American edition, intended principally for use by students. This edition is prefixed with a history of anatomy that begins with Hippocrates, followed by a description of the Ruyschian Art and Method of making preparations to exhibit the structure of the human body. "With a Representation of the Quicksilver Tray and its Appendages, Which are not in the London edition." Contemporary calf, spines gilt, red morocco lettering labels. Somewhat browned, minor wear to bindings. Contemporary writing and previous owner's name with date on flyleaf and title page of volume 1. Andrew Fyfe (1752-1824) was an anatomist who demonstrated dissection at Edinburgh University, where he won awards for his drawings. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $176
Lot 453		Newton, Isaac (1643-1727) English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher. He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus and his work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known. Newton also wrote widely on religion, much of which was not accessible until after his death. Specifically, he believed that God was superior in nature and substance to Christ and criticized Trinitarian dogmas, stating that the Trinity was a corruption wrongly imposed on the Church by the first Council of Nicaea in the 4th century AD. Newton did not make his beliefs widely known during his lifetime as they would have been considered heresy by the Church and he would have lost his appointments at Cambridge and as Master of the Mint. Autograph Manuscript unsigned, 2pp (one sheet recto/verso), in Latin, 7½ x 6 in., n.p., n.d. A few small holes from the iron gall ink, else fine. On these pages, Newton claims that the people have been "brainwashed" into believing false doctrines. He states that the priests are using false and tricky arguments to convince their followers and accuses the pope of similar wrong-doings. "O pietatis mysterium quod iam prope per orbem universum est propagatum!…Falsis et subdolis rationum." Note: When this manuscript was acquired by the present consignor (over 30 years ago), he mentioned it to a local priest who was an expert in Latin. The priest said it would be a privilege to see the manuscript and translate it, but several days after receiving it, he called and angrily asked if the manuscript were a joke because of Newton's open criticism of the papacy. He should not have been surprised. In An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture, a dissertation written by Newton and published in 1754, 27 years after his death, he blames "the Roman church" for many abuses in the world and accuses it of "pious frauds." This manuscript is deserving of serious study by scholars. Estimated Value $45,000 - 55,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 454		[Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine]. Ulf Svante von Euler. Seven page typescript in English of his "The Future of Pharmacology," with an ALS "USvEuler" in German, transmitting the typescript and saying his originals are lost. On letterhead of Stockholm's Physiological Institute with embossed seal showing caduceus and Asculepean symbols. Ragnar Granit. Three-page typescript in English of his Foreword to a festschrift for A.K. McIntyre. He summarizes and comments on the scientific content of the papers. He signs in full on p. 3 and writes on p. 1, "Published in 'Trends in Neurosciences. 1949'…." Karl v. Frisch. Holograph page 2 of a manuscript concerning "The Great Rose Aphid--And How it Succeeds in Reproducing Itself so Extensively." Signed Karl v. Frisch" at top of page. G.N. Hounsfield. Developed computer tomography. Holograph "Best Wishes" and signature, "Godfrey Hounsfield" on 7-page reprint of his article "Picture Quality of Computed Tomography," with illustrations of organs, and diagrams. Estimated Value $450 - 650. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold