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The Stanitz Collection of science and technology, important printed books and manuscripts … Including works by Archimedes, Aristotle, Apianus, Bacon, Boyle, Branca, Cardano, Copernicus, Descartes, D’Alembert, Einstein, Euler, Faraday, Galileo, Gauss, Helmholtz, Hooke, Huygens, Kepler, Newton, Pascal, Planck, Ramelli, Stevin, Tartaglia, Vincent of Beauvais, Zonca and others on aeronautics, arithmetic, astronomy, atomic energy, canals, cosmography, engineering, electricity, hydraulics, kinetics, machinery, mathematics, mechanics, philosophy of science, radioactivity, relativity, shipbuilding, thermodynamics and other subjects (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 25 April 1984)

New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1984
(23.5 cm), [118] pp., illustrations. 460 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Sale catalogue of the collection of the consulting engineer John D. Stanitz (1920-2011) of University Heights, Cleveland, Ohio, with an account by the collector of the origin and growth of his collection, and his reasons for selling: “How could I sell the collection? The answer is really quite simple: the collection had reached a point of maturity, where I was satisfied… and with this satisfaction the thrill of the hunt has been lost. Let others rise up to the challenge”. “Nothing in the order of Honeyman or Horblit to be sure, but a reasonable gathering of 470 lots, with the emphasis on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, mathematics (especially calculus), machinery, and ‘energetics’ (heat, light, electricity, relativity and atomic physics). Prices were on the whole very steady, though nothing really thrilling happened” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1984, pp.344-347). ¶ Datestamp on title (Received 28 Mar 1984). Photocopy (?) of List of prices realised loosely inserted.

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