Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 105

June 30 - July 1 2018 Manuscript, Space and Collectibles Sale

Scientists and Engineers

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 127		Brodie, Benjamin Collins - ADS Giving Instructions For a Patient (1783-1862) British physiologist and surgeon whose name is applied to certain diseases of the bones and joints. His Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the Joints (1818) led to fewer amputations and the saving of many limbs. He was the first surgeon to be elected president of the Royal Society (1858). Autograph document signed, "B C Brodie," 2 pages, 9 x 7", no place, Aug. 10, 1834. Brodie writes what seems to be instructions for a patient, in part: "To lie on a sofa for an hour in the middle of the day…To take exercise daily in the open air…In summer to bathe in the open sea on the alternate days, At other times of the year to use a shorter bath of sea water, or salt water every morning. A little (?) in cold weather." Light soiling; a couple of fold separations at edges, one passing through part of "18" in the date; and a few contemporary ink blotches. Boldly penned and signed. Estimate Value $200 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 128		Burbank, Luther -- Typed Letter Signed Discussing Numerous Plants (1849-1926) American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. His prodigious production of fruits, flowers, vegetables, and grasses was the basis for the development of plant breeding into a modern science. Typed letter signed "Luther Burbank," one page, on engraved, personal letterhead, 7 x 8½", Santa Rosa, California, Feb. 24, 1919. To Dr. Wm. Brigham in Honolulu, sending seeds (not present) and discussing a variety of plants. In part: "I understand fully how the Avocado pear sports as I have raised hundreds of them and at last have discovered two varieties from Chile which seem to be hardy even in our climate….I think the Avocado is probably the most promising for experiment of any fruit or plant in the world. It promises marvelous variety of inestimable value from its rare sporting quality. The camphor, olive and eucalyptus all thrive here but…the breadfruit, jackfruit, india rubber, kukui and hardly the guava can thrive at all….I think you will find them satisfactory in every respect." Estimate Value $200 - UP Ex: Goodspeed's, 1974. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $192
Lot 129		Dix, Dorothea -- Autograph Letter Signed (1802-1887) Author, teacher and reformer whose efforts on behalf of the mentally ill and prisoners helped create dozens of new institutions in the United States and in Europe. During the Civil War, she was appointed to organize and outfit the Union Army hospitals and to serve as superintendent of women nurses. Autograph letter signed "D.L. Dix," 3 pages on a bifolium, 7½ x 5", Philadelphia, Aug 29, no year [1820s?]. To Thomas R. Stephens: "Looking over Dr. Hare's Bookcases in this city--I observed and have examined a work bearing the title of 'Stephen's American Register;' 'conducted' …'by James Stryker'…he or yr. self might have pleasure and do good, by adding so interesting a publication to the State Hospital Library at Trenton….you must fully appreciate the value of Books for the care of the convalescent patients." Fine condition. Estimate Value $300 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $288
Lot 130		Einstein, Albert --Signed Menu From the 1939/40 World's Fair (1879-1955) German-born scientist who enunciated the theory of relativity; winner of the 1921 Nobel prize. Menu from the Swiss Pavilion, New York World's Fair 1939/40 signed "A. Einstein" on the first inside page, above the Swiss flag. Housed in an elaborate leather and cloth case. Estimate Value $2,000 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,400
Lot 131		Freud, Sigmund -- Professor Dr. Freud Agrees to Write an Article on "the progress of Psychoanalysis" for the Encyclopedia Britannica (1856-1939) Founder of psychoanalysis. Autograph letter signed "Freud," one page, on paper engraved "Prof. Dr. Freud" at upper left, and "Wien IX., Berggasse 19" at upper right, 9 x 5¾, Semmering (Austria), Villa Schüler, Sept. 13, 1925. The letter is written to Franklin Henry Hooper (1862-1940) who was managing editor of the very famous 11th edition (1910-11) of the Encyclopædia Britannica and was U.S. editor for the 12th, 13th, and 14th editions; he took over as editor in chief in 1932 upon the death of his brother, Horace Everett Hooper. Freud writes in English: "Dear Sir I am glad to accept your proposal to give you an article on the progress of Psychoanalysis for the new volumes of the E.B. But I see one difficulty which I trust you will abolish by your answer. The E.B. of 1910 has no article on Psychoanalysis, does not even mention its existence. Can I restrict my report to the progress made since 1910, when the reader is not informed of the condition before that term? Yours most sincerely / Freud." Paper is toned overall, some creasing around edges, and one edge tear at left margin touching one letter. The letter is boldly penned and signed. Matted and framed to 11¾ x 9¼". Estimate Value $5,000 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $4,440
Lot 132		Howe, Samuel Gridley - ALS re an "Idiotic Boy" Who May Be Qualified for Howe's School (1801-1876, Boston), American physician, educator, and abolitionist as well as the founding director of the New-England Institution for the Education of the Blind (later known as the Perkins School for the Blind) and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth. Autograph letter signed "S.G. Howe," one page, on "Perkins' Institution, and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind" letterhead, Boston, Apr. 1, 1862. To A.P. Peabody, regarding "an idiotic boy in whom you are kindly interested." He is told to get the mother to fill out the blanks in a paper he is enclosing (not present), and "I shall be able to judge by the answers whether the lad is a proper subject for the school. If he is I will take the necessary steps to procure his admission. It will be necessary that his friends provide his clothing but they will be put to no further expense." A couple of small edge splits and chips, else fine. At that time, intellectually disabled people were referred to as "idiotic" and "feeble minded." Estimate Value $200 - UP Ex: Paul Richards, ca. 1985. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 133		Jonas Salk - Signed Photo and Two Original Imprints About Poliomyelitis. Photo signed "Jonas Salk" on his white lab coat, 10 x 8", no place, no date. With two imprints and a printed cover letter. "Poliomyelitis Vaccine in the Fall of 1955," by Jonas E. Salk, M.D. (National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, N.Y. [1956]. Probably first separate printing, originally published in the January 1956 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, 8 ½ x 5 ½", 14 pages. Softbound in original stapled wrappers. Light toning. Together, as issued, with: Hart E. Van Riper, M.D., editor. "New Information for Physicians on the Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine" [including an abstract summary of the above Salk Article] (National Association for Infantile Paralysis, NY, January 1956), 8 ½ x 5 ½", 32 pages. Softbound in original wrappers. With Hart E. Van Riper, M.D. Printed cover letter, as Medical Director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, New York January 1956, sending the two pamphlets to doctors and bringing them up to date on developments in the field of poliomyelitis vaccine since July 1955. Estimate Value $100 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $141
Lot 134		Mayo, Charles H. -- A Letter of Thanks to the Encyclopedia Britannica (1865-1939) American physician; one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic. Typed letter signed "C.H. Mayo," on personal letterhead, one page, 9½ x 6¾", Rochester, Minn., Jan. 9, 1937. To Mr. T.H. Hooper, Editor / Encyclopaedia Britannica, thanking him for a Christmas present,"It is nice to watch the world go by, so to say, through the pages of your splendid publications…." One faint smudge, else fine. Estimate Value $200 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 135		Medical and Scientific Pioneers - Alexander Fleming, Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, Carl Djerrassi, and Norman Borlaug. Six signed items by five world-renowned doctors, the first four known respectively for the world's first antibiotic (Fleming), the polio vaccine (Salk), the oral polio vaccine (Sabin), and the first oral contraceptive (Djerassi). Dr. Norman E. Borlaug's agricultural advances (called the Green Revolution) is credited with saving millions of people from starvation in developing countries; he signed two differerent business cards. Fine condition. Estimate Value $150 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $800
Lot 136		Paget, James - ALS re a Report Illustrating the General Pathology of Contagions (1814-1899) English surgeon and pathologist considered one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. He was a professor at the Royal College of Surgeons and several medical conditions were named for him. His works include Lectures on Tumours (1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851. Autograph letter signed "James Paget," 2 pages (pages 1 and 2 of a bifolium), on stationery engraved "1, Harewood Place, Hanover Square," 7 x 4½", Jan. 9, 1884. To Dr. Masters, asking if he was going to publish in the Gardener's Chronicle a report by Dr. Beijerinck on "the Germ-disease." which had been issued by the Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam. "I want to send a notice of these observations, so far as they may illustrate the general pathology of contagions, to one of our Medical Journals and I should be glad to be able to refer its readers to some place in which they may send a report of other parts of Dr. Beijerinck's essay in something easier than Dutch…." Minor soiling and small split at juncture of pages, affecting nothing, else fine. Estimate Value $250 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 137		[Panama Canal] Ferdinand de Lesseps, Charles A. de Lesseps, and (George W. Goethals). Ferdinand de Lesseps, diplomat and developer of the Suez Canal (opened in 1869), but who failed to build a Panama Canal in the 1880s. The project was taken over by the United States in 1907, headed by engineer George W. Goethals, who completed the canal in 1914. Signature ("Ferd. de Lesseps") on a blank card and an autograph note unsigned on his business card from l'Académie Française et de l'Académie des Sciences, to M. Chasserian, May 8,1884. With a card signed by his son, Charles A. de Lesseps, Paris, 1886, and an unsigned business card of Charles, who served as vice president for the Suez project. Also, a large unsigned business card of George W. Goethals. Estimate Value $150 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 138		Steinmetz, Charles Proteus -- Signed Check (1865-1923) American mathematician, electrical engineer, and technological pioneer who was born Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz in Breslau, Prussia. His ideas on alternating current systems helped inaugurate the electrical era in the United States. Check signed "Charles P. Steinmetz" and filled out in his hand, 2¾ x 6¼", Schenectady, N.Y., July 1, 1907. Written on The Schenectady Trust Company and paid to J.T. & D. E. Lyon in the amount of $1961.34. Fine condition. Stamp cancellations on verso. Punch cancellation affects body of check but barely touches the capital letters in Steinmetz' bold signature. In 1893, Thomas Edison hired Steinmetz as a consulting engineer for General Electric Company, where he worked for the rest of his life. Estimate Value $200 - UP Ex B.C. West Autographs, 11/22/74. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 139		[Architects], Group of Twelve, Including Charles Luckman, Philip Johnson, Minoru Yamasaki, I.M. Pei, Myron Hunt, Cesar Pelli, Frank Gehry, and Others. Group of twelve architects: Myron Hunt, 1914 nice content TLS, saying the only friend or acquaintance he has who really buys paintings is H.E. Huntington; Charles Luckman, 1960 TLS, declining an invitation; Philip Johnson, signed, dated 3x5" card; Minoru Yamasaki, color ISP from a publication of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and a color postcard of Century City in L.A. signed and inscribed; Edward D. Stone, signature on 3½ x 5½" card; John Portman, signed postcard; Cesar Pelli, signed, inscribed and dated postcard; I.M. Pei, signature on 3x5" card; Frank Gehry, signed postcard; Richard Meier, signed, dated 3 x 5" card; Lou Naidorf, 2003 ALS re designing The Capitol Building in L.A., and a signed postcard. Total of 14 signed items. Overall fine. Estimate Value $250 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $166