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From: Paul Brown <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Digital Arts Histories <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:51:39 +0000
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DASH] The Origins of Cyberspace - RESULT
I called into Christies London office this morning to pick up a copy
of the Origins of Cyberspace catalog (half-price - UK10 - now the sale
is over!) and their press office gave me the following post sale
summary. A more detailed Auction Result can be requested with the catalog
which is available from any of their international offices:
For Immediate Release
February 23, 2005
Contact: Bendetta Roux 212.636.2680
CHRISTIE'S POST-SALE REPORT
(Prices Include Buyer's Premium)
THE ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE
Christie's Rockefeller Center
February 23, 2005
Sale Total: $714,060 373,853/E549,276
Lots Offered: 254 Lots Sold: 133 :=
$1.91
/ E: $1.30
Sold by Lot: 52% Sold by $: 70 % Sale: 1484
TOP LOTS
Lot Price Estimate Buyer
33 $78,000 40,837/E101,400 $30,000-40,000 US Pr=
ivate
Menabrea, Luigi Federico. Sketch of the Analytical Engine …with no=
tes
by the translator [Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace], London, 1843
238 $72,000 37,696/E55,384 $50,000-70,000 US Pri=
vate
[Eckert, J. Presper and John Mauchly.] "Outline of plans for development
of electronic computers," 1946 - the founding document of the electronic
computer industry
16 $38,400 20,104/E29,538 $10,000-15,000 Anonymous
Babbage, Charles. A letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart …, London, 18=
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